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Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday boosting the size of the army by 15,500 troops in the fourth such order this year. Putin’s order comes as both Russia and Ukraine suffer mounting casualties in the more than four-and-a-half-year Ukraine war. The decree did not give a reason for the troop increase. “The authorised personnel strength of the Russian armed forces is to be set at 2,441,630 units, including 1,550,500 military personnel,” the decree said. Putin had previously...

Ukraine condemns Russian targeting of civilians as strikes kill seven and injure dozens across Kyiv.

A Russian drone struck the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in central Kyiv, killing one person

The BBC's Paul Adams reports from the scene of the strike on Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences.

A Russian strike hit a nine-storey apartment block in Kharkiv early on Monday, injuring 25 people, including nine children. Emergency workers evacuated 32 residents from the damaged building, according to regional authorities.

Ukrainian leader Zelenskyy says Moscow launched nearly 4,000 drones, aerial bombs and missiles on Ukraine in past week.

Russian strikes killed eight people across Ukraine on Sunday, authorities said, a day after Moscow vowed to continue the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia had launched about 3,900 drones, aerial bombs and missiles over the past week. Ukraine accused Moscow of deliberately targeting civilians as winter approaches.

Meanwhile, Moscow and Kyiv continued to exchange strikes on Saturday, with Russian attacks killing at least four people across Ukraine. As both sides intensify their aerial attacks, US President Donald Trump said he hoped Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin would reach an agreement and “settle” their differences. Morgan Ayre reports.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov vowed that the objectives of Moscow’s military operation will be achieved.

New strikes come after the US proposes a fresh round of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks in the UAE.

New York Times Kyiv bureau chief Andrew Kramer tells Bloomberg This Weekend that Russia and Ukraine are increasingly targeting each other’s economies as the war shifts toward attacks on energy, transportation and export infrastructure. Speaking with hosts David Gura and Christina Ruffini, Kramer says Ukraine is using its expanding drone arsenal to target Russia’s oil industry and its ability to finance a prolonged war. (Source: Bloomberg)

Alleged incursions put NATO nations on alert as Ukraine launches strikes on Russia during parliamentary voting.

Such strikes aim to disrupt "people's ability to stay connected, study, work", says Ukraine's president.

European Union countries have agreed to release €6.6 billion from a fund meant to reimburse member states that have  provided arms to Ukraine, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Friday. At least seven people were killed in Russian strikes on Kyiv earlier in the day, according to local authorities.  

A 14-year-old boy was killed after a Russian drone tore into a 16-storey apartment block in Kyiv’s Pecherskyi district overnight on Friday 25 September 2026.

Ukraine's president added that eight regions have come under attack by Russian forces since the start of the day.

A Russian drone strike hit central Kyiv before 8am on 25 September, killing a 14-year-old and leaving rescue workers clearing rubble from damaged buildings. Residents said there was little time to react to the air raid sirens, as Russia's increasingly deadly drone attacks also struck logistics facilities and postal infrastructure elsewhere in the city. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg has the details from Kyiv.

François Picard is pleased to welcome Kyrylo Berkal, Deputy Commander of Ukraine's Third Army Corps, He sees Ukraine’s struggle centred on human potential, adaptation and will. While Ukraine is outnumbered, outgunned and sometimes outflanked, their answer is to make human initiative a weapon: giving soldiers and sergeants room to innovate, developing technology from the tactical level upward, and trying to outthink their adversary. Berkal says that Operation Vivaldi embodies that philosophy. 

Ukraine has targeted an industrial plant in Russia's Perm region with a massive drone swarm.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has put North Korea in a propaganda bind, analysts say, by publicly revealing that Kyiv recently transferred two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea. The disclosure – made during Zelensky’s address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday – directly challenges Pyongyang’s narrative that its soldiers fighting alongside Russian forces choose death over surrendering. North Korea is unlikely to acknowledge the transfer publicly, but may strengthen...

A Croatian court has approved the extradition of a Ukrainian man who is wanted in Germany in connection with the 2022 undersea explosions that damaged the Nord Stream gas pipelines, state media said on Thursday. The report from HRT Television quoted the suspect’s lawyer Ljubo Pavaskovic as saying that he will appeal the September 18 ruling. It was not immediately clear when the man could be handed over to Germany. He was arrested on a European warrant in the northern Croatian town of Pula in...

Mark Owen is pleased to welcome Peter Zalmayev from Kyiv, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative. According to Zalmayev, Russia’s ongoing attacks on Ukraine reflect a broader political logic in which military force, political objectives and territorial ambitions are intertwined as instruments of Russian strategy. He argues that Moscow’s attacks on civilian infrastructure are designed to exert extreme pressure on Ukrainian society while demonstrating fierce retaliation to domestic audiences in Russia. Zalmayev contrasts this with Ukraine’s strikes on Russian energy infrastructure, which he describes as targeting assets that directly sustain Moscow’s war effort.

Russia attacks Ukraine while Zelenskyy speaks at UNGA

Russian drone and missile strikes on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv and its northeast killed eight people on Thursday in attacks that included a maternity hospital and a farm, officials said. Moscow has stepped up its air ‌war in recent months, deploying more of its faster and harder-to-stop drones while Ukraine is short of interceptors to down ballistic missiles. Two people died in the latest assault on Kyiv, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was in New York for the UN General...

The president criticised North Korea for using citizens like 'currency' to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine.

Russia hit Kyiv with ballistic missiles and drones, killing two people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday as a series of blasts rocked the Ukrainian capital. As autumn approaches, Ukrainians are bracing for a tough winter following Moscow's intensifying attacks on the country's energy infrastructure. 

The BBC has spoken to residents in the Russian-occupied Ukrainian town of Oleshky who say they now have to eat garden weeds to survive.

President Volodymyr Zelensky warned Moscow at the United Nations on Wednesday that Ukraine would strike back and make the coming winter deeply painful for Russia, if the two sides cannot agree a truce on energy attacks before the cold sets in. Ukraine and its allies are racing to secure limited agreements on energy infrastructure and Black Sea shipping before winter, fearing renewed Russian strikes on power and heating ‌facilities, while Moscow continues to show little interest in wider...

Ukrainian president urges world leaders to keep choking Russia's revenues to impede its war efforts.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is warning that Russia's “never-ending war" could spread throughout Europe.