Russia launched its largest aerial assault of its three-year war on Ukraine overnight, targeting the capital and other regions with missiles and drones for a second night in a row, even as the two sides prepared to conclude a major prisoner exchange.

Russian forces launched a barrage of 367 drones and missiles at Ukrainian cities overnight, including the capital Kyiv, in the largest aerial attack of the war so far, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more,

Eight injured as Moscow launches missile and drone attacks on Kyiv - Overnight strikes follow days of some 800 Ukrainian attacks on targets inside Russia, including capital Moscow

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s definition of victory in Ukraine has significantly downscaled since the 2022 invasion, from initial ambitions of regime change and “demilitarization” to more limited territorial goals like controlling the Donbas and holding a land bridge to Crimea.

Trump can’t end the Ukraine war, and he knows it, Nichols dissects the May 19 conversation and its wider implications — concluding that Trump remains the “junior partner” in U.S.-Russia relations, while Putin will continue waging war in Ukraine as long as he is allowed to get away with

Vladimir Putin has unleashed one of the largest-scale attacks on Ukraine since the beginning of the full-scale invasion – just days after the first in-person negotiations for a ceasefire. Explosions and machine gunfire echoed across Kyiv as round after round of Russian missiles and Iranian-made Shahed drones ripped through the midnight sky,