Exclusive: Vitaliy Kim, who was handpicked by Zelensky to be governor of the Mykolaiv Oblast region in Ukraine, has signalled a shift towards compromise in an interview with The Independent

Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap interceptor drones, flipping the cost balance.

Planned outages in force across Ukraine while Russian strike kills 12 miners hours after Zelenskyy says next trilateral talks to start on Wednesday. What we know on day 1,440

The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will "take corresponding steps" as Trump says Putin agreed to stop bombing Ukrainian cities for a week.

Ukraine's defence forces have struck a repair base of a Russian unit from an engineering-sapper regiment in the occupied territory of Zaporizhzhia Oblast. Source: General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Details: In addition,

Ukraine has imported a record volume of electricity from the EU totalling 41.9 GWh in January.