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Russian missile attack kills 11 in Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine

S-300 missiles were used in a series of Russian attacks, with the main strike hitting the town of Pokrovsk and nearby villages. The town lies in Ukrainian-held territory, about 80 km northwest of Donetsk, the Russian held centre of the region

Russia’s air assault on Ukraine evokes sharp criticism at UN Security Council meet

Russian strikes across Ukraine on Friday killed 31 civilians and wounded more than 160 others in the biggest aerial attacks since the start of the war in February 2022, according to officials, and Poland said a Russian missile appeared to have flown into its airspace before returning to Ukraine

Russia-Ukraine War: Netherlands to deliver 18 F-16 fighter jets to Kyiv

Denmark, Norway and Belgium have also announced they will give F-16 jets to Ukraine after the U.S. government approved sending them to defend against Russia as soon as pilot training is completed.

Russia fired 7,400 missiles, 3,700 Shahed drones in vast scale of aerial assaults on Ukraine

Ukrainian air defences were able to shoot down 1,600 of the missiles and 2,900 of the drones. The cheaply-produced, Iranian-made Shahed drones, known in Ukraine for their noisy petrol engines, have been used more and more frequently in Russia’s aerial assaults on Ukrainian infrastructure

‘Sensitive and costly issue’: Zelenskyy as Ukraine mulls proposal by army to mobilise another 500,000 for war

The Ukrainian leader told his end-of-year news conference it was a “highly sensitive” issue that the military and government would discuss before deciding whether to send the proposal to parliament

All eyes on Hungary’s Orban as EU leaders meet to decide on support for Ukraine

Hungary appears on a collision course with fellow European Union members over Ukraine's bid to join the wealthy bloc, a dispute that could hold up Kyiv's membership drive and is set to overshadow the EU summit

‘As long as it takes’: EU chief urges bloc to support Ukraine amid Hungary’s plans to veto Kyiv’s membership bid

For some time now, Hungary is opposed to granting Ukraine more financial aid and has threatened to veto plans to advance Kyiv’s EU membership bid at a summit of the bloc’s leaders in Brussels on Thursday and Friday

In fresh attacks, Russia hits Ukraine with 12 drones, cruise missile, claims Ukraine’s air force

The cruise missile was not destroyed but did not reach its target, the air force said without giving out any further information on the attack. Ukraine’s air defence systems destroyed 10 drones before they reached their targets, Ukraine’s air force revealed

In largest-ever drone attack on Ukraine’s Kyiv, five wounded, 40 drones downed

The target of the attack was not immediately clear, but Ukraine has warned in recent weeks that Russia will once again wage an aerial campaign to destroy Ukraine's energy system, as it sought to do last winter

Russia-Ukraine war: How many personnel, tanks has Moscow lost? How does it compare to Kyiv?

A new report from the UK ministry of defence estimates that Russia has lost around 400,000 personnel and 2,400 main battle tanks since the conflict with Kyiv began. US officials have pegged Ukrainian troop deaths at 70,000 with another 100,000 to 120,000 injured