President Volodymyr Zelensky has announced that three new sanction packages have officially taken effect, following their approval by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council.

U.S. President Donald Trump has voiced strong disapproval of Russia’s weekend bombardment of Ukraine, telling reporters that he’s “not happy with Vladimir Putin.”

The helicopter carrying Vladimir Putin was caught in the “epicenter” of a massive Ukrainian drone attack while the the Russian president was visiting Kursk Region earlier this week, Yury Dashkin, a commander of an air defense division, has disclosed.
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Western European leaders are looking into the possibility of purchasing American weapons and giving them to Ukraine once the military equipment transfers approved by the previous administration of US President Joe Biden run out, Bloomberg has reported.

Russia has launched the largest air attack in three years of the war against Ukraine in a second straight night of massive drone and ballistic missile strikes in which the capital city, Kyiv, was once again the focus of heavy attack.

Moscow and Kyiv have exchanged 307 captives each in the second phase of the largest prisoner swap during the full-scale war, Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on May 24.

The Russian military has been tasked with creating a “security buffer zone” along the border with Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has stated.