Russia fired a powerful hypersonic missile overnight at a target in Ukraine near the border with NATO-member Poland, in what Kyiv's European allies on Friday described as an attempt to intimidate them from supporting Ukraine.

Ukraine nuclear facilities face Russian attack threats as Moscow weighs strikes on power substations to force capitulation, officials say. Zaporizhzhia is a primary target.

Russia said it deployed one of its most advanced ballistic missiles during widespread overnight strikes on Ukraine. In Kyiv, 4 people were killed by drones. Follow DW for more.

A Russian attack struck an infrastructure target in western Ukraine's Lviv region, officials in the region said early on Friday.

Russia launched dozens of drones into Ukraine overnight into Tuesday, as European leaders prepared to meet in Paris to discuss security guarantees in Ukraine.

Ukraine’s security services say their elite Alpha special forces spent 2025 quietly dismantling some of Russia’s most prized air defense systems, inflicting an estimated 4 billion dollars in damage. The campaign,

Russia said that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western governments would be "legitimate combat targets", after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.

Nearly four years into the conflict, which began Feb. 24, 2022, Ukrainian lines are holding. Russian advances remain very slow and costly. It’s Putin who should be pressured to recognize the futility of continuing to spend the blood of Ukrainians and Russians on his futile dreams of conquest.