The latest pre-dawn Russian missile attack on Kyiv has killed at least three people, including a nine-year-old girl and her mother, Ukrainian officials said.

Russian forces began June with a fresh aerial bombardment of Kyiv on Thursday, killing at least three people and wounding others, authorities said.

US President Joe Biden has approved a new package of military aid for Ukraine that totals up to $300 million  and includes additional munitions for drones and other weapons.

The world is fortunate a nuclear accident has not happened in Ukraine, the UN nuclear chief said on Tuesday.

Russian air defences stopped eight drones converging on Moscow, officials said on Tuesday, in an attack that authorities blamed on Ukraine.

The buzzing of drones and loud explosions were heard as Ukrainian air defence responded to the third Russia aerial attack on the capital in the last 24 hours.

Russian forces fired 11 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv at about 11.30am (8.30am Irish time)

Mr Graham, a Republican from South Carolina, noted that “the Russians are dying”, and described the US military assistance to the country as “the best money we’ve ever spent”

Panicked residents, some of whom initially ignored the air raid siren as they ate breakfast in cafes, rushed to take cover when the sky filled with smoke trails and blast clouds

Ukraine’s capital has been subjected to the largest drone attack since the start of Russia’s war, local officials said, as Kyiv prepared to mark the anniversary of its founding on Sunday.

The IAEA said it did not have any immediate comment on the allegations and Russian officials did not immediately comment on the Ukrainian claims

The Belgorod region was earlier this week the target of one of the most serious cross-border attacks from Ukraine since the war began 15 months ago

Russia and Belarus have signed a deal formalising the procedure for deploying Russian nuclear weapons on Belarusian territory. Control of the weapons will remain with Moscow.

The head of Wagner says his forces have started pulling out of Bakhmut in eastern Ukraine and handing over control to the Russian military. It comes days after he said troops from the Russian private military contractor had captured the ruined city.

Russian private army Wagner lost more than 20,000 fighters in the drawn-out battle for Bakhmut, according to chief Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Pressure from the West is strengthening Russia’s ties with China, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said during a meeting with his Chinese counterpart in Beijing.

Russian forces have shot down “a large number” of drones in the southern Belgorod region, a local official has claimed. The drones were intercepted overnight over the province, Belgorod governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said in a Telegram post.

Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg confirmed that the training decision was the exact thrust necessary towards making the jets available to Ukraine.

While it is not the first time Russia has alleged an incursion by Ukrainian saboteurs, it is the first time the operation to counter the raid has continued for a second day

Vladimir Kolokoltsev has been sanctioned by the US since 2018 as part of a slew of sanctions over Russia’s activity in both Syria and Ukraine.

Russian officials have claimed that Ukrainian military saboteurs launched an attack across the border, wounding three people in a small town.

Ukrainian officials say their fighters played a key role in their strategy of exhausting Russian forces and that their current positions surrounding Bakhmut will let them strike back inside the 400-year-old city

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said Russian forces are not occupying Bakhmut, casting doubt on Moscow’s claims that the eastern Ukrainian city has fallen.

“For today, Bakhmut is only in our hearts,” he said. “There is nothing in this place.”

Russia’s defence ministry has said that forces of the Wagner private army, with the support of Russian troops, seized the Ukrainian city of Bakhmut.

Pope Francis has tasked a leading Italian cardinal with a mission in hope it can “ease tensions” in the Ukraine war and lead to a path of peace, the Vatican said.

The head of the Russian private army Wagner has claimed that his forces have taken control of the city of Bakhmut after the longest battle of the Russia-Ukraine war. Ukrainian defence officials have denied Yevgeny Prigozhin’s claims.

President Joe Biden has endorsed plans to train Ukrainian pilots on US-made F-16 fighter jets, according to reports.

It is the ninth Russian air raid to target the capital this month, a clear escalation after weeks of lull that comes before an expected Ukrainian counteroffensive using newly supplied advanced western weapons.

Russia agreed to a two-month extension of a deal that has allowed Ukraine to ship grain through the Black Sea to parts of the world struggling with hunger, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced on Wednesday, a boost to global food ...

Russia had set a Thursday deadline for its concerns to be ironed out or had threatened to bow out.

Popular playwright, director and actor Mr Vyrypaev has been living and working in Warsaw for several years and has also spoken in opposition to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths told the Security Council on Monday the deal is “critical” and talks were ongoing.

Mr Zelenskyy has previously said he would not consider a peace deal to end the 15-month war until Russian forces withdraw from Ukrainian territory.

It was the eighth time this month that Russian air raids had targeted the capital, a clear escalation after weeks of lull and ahead of a much-anticipated Ukrainian counter-offensive

Loud explosions sounded above Kyiv early on Tuesday as Russia launched an intense air attack on the capital using a combination of drones, cruise missiles and possible ballistic missiles.

The Biden administration last year publicised satellite imagery and intelligence findings that it said indicated Iran sold hundreds of attack drones to Russia

Mr Macron has offered light tanks, armoured vehicles, training for soldiers and other assistance as the Ukrainians gear up for a counteroffensive against Russian forces

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has made a surprise visit to Paris for talks with French President Emmanuel Macron, extending a multi-stop European tour that has elicited fresh pledges of military support as his country gears up for a ...

Pressed by reporters on the issue, Mr Zelenskyy said: “We don’t attack Russian territory, we liberate our own legitimate territory.”

A Luftwaffe jet flew Mr Zelenskyy to the German capital from Rome, where he had met on Saturday with Pope Francis and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni.

The two leaders are expected to fly to the western city of Aachen for Mr Zelenskyy to receive the International Charlemagne Prize awarded to him and the people of Ukraine.

The pontiff has previously offered his efforts to try to end the war that Russia began with its invasion of Ukraine a year ago.

The Ukrainian leader’s exact schedule was not publicly announced because of security concerns