Ukraine's Operation Vivaldi has pushed Russian forces back in the northern Donbas, blocking an encirclement of Sloviansk and Kramatorsk. Ukraine spent months hitting Russian supply lines before sending in tanks backed by armed ground robots,

President Donald Trump has blamed Ukrainian attacks on Russian energy infrastructure for stubbornly high global diesel prices.

Top Russian and US officials, including US Special Envoy Jared Kushner, have held talks about bringing a US investor into the Nord Stream pipelines that delivered gas to Germany before Russia invaded Ukraine,

The strike is the first against Russian data infrastructure since the start of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Intensifying attacks by Russia and Ukraine ahead of the winter are further endangering navigational safety in the Black Sea, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said on Thursday, adding that world powers must not allow the region to be turned into a new front in the war.

Slovakia and Russia are restoring military and diplomatic ties and exchanging military attachés for the first time since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine