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Ukraine preparing for fresh peace talks with Russia in October, but Moscow rules out Putin meeting with Zelensky at the G20 summit

  • Ukraine readies for possible Russia-US peace talks as soon as October.
  • Kremlin rules out Putin-Zelensky meeting at December's G20 summit in Miami.
  • US envoys push for progress; Russian strikes kill seven in Ukraine over weekend.

Ukraine is preparing for a fresh round of peace talks with Russia and the United States that could take place as early as October, according to Volodymyr Zelensky's chief of staff, Kyrylo Budanov. However, the Kremlin has again rejected the prospect of a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin…

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Only Roland Garros towel left, says Ukraine tennis player after Russian strike hits flat

  • Yastremska's Odesa flat destroyed by a Russian Kalibr missile strike
  • Only a Roland Garros towel survived amid the wreckage
  • Attack injured 37, including a baby; two people missing

Ukrainian tennis player Dayana Yastremska has said her family's flat in the Black Sea port of Odesa was destroyed in a Russian missile strike, with only a Roland Garros towel surviving the blaze. The 26-year-old shared images of the burning building on social media, describing it as "a…

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Putin boosts his stock of nuclear warheads to nine-year high as he threatens West that putting troops into Ukraine ‘means war with Russia’

  • Russia's nuclear warhead stockpile hits nine-year high of 1,796
  • Putin warns Nato troops in Ukraine would mean "war with Russia"
  • Medvedev threatens Lithuania with nuclear "scorched earth" strike

Vladimir Putin has expanded Russia's nuclear arsenal for the fourth consecutive year while warning Nato that deploying troops to Ukraine would mean war with Russia. The increase, revealed by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, comes as tensions escalate over Western support for Kyiv, with Putin denying Russia…

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Ukraine faces ‘toughest winter’ since Russia’s full-scale invasion, UN official tells BBC

  • UN official warns of "humanitarian catastrophe" risk this winter in Ukraine
  • Russia accused of systematically targeting Ukraine's energy infrastructure
  • Recent strikes have killed civilians in shopping malls and border areas

A senior United Nations official has warned that Ukraine is facing its "toughest winter" since Russia's full-scale invasion began in 2022, with a risk of "humanitarian catastrophe" if attacks knock out power and water supplies. Alexander De Croo, head of the UN Development Programme and the UN's third…

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Russia claims it has detained former guard at British Embassy in Moscow, saying he was part of Ukrainian plot to stage ‘false flag attack on UK diplomats’

  • FSB says it detained a British Embassy security guard as a Ukrainian spy
  • He allegedly passed diplomats' personal data to a pro-Ukrainian blogger
  • Charged with high treason, punishable by life imprisonment

Russia's FSB security service says it has detained a former security guard at the British Embassy in Moscow, accusing him of passing personal data on UK diplomats to Ukrainian intelligence as part of an alleged plot to stage a "false flag" attack on British embassy staff. The claim…

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Russia outpacing Ukraine’s air defences with daily use of new jet-powered drones

  • Russia now fires jet-powered Geran drones at Ukraine daily
  • Faster drones outpace Ukraine's air defence interceptors
  • New Russian base at Tsymbulova boosts drone attack capacity

Russia has been launching its upgraded, jet-powered "Geran" drones against Ukraine every single day in August, according to BBC Verify analysis of Ukrainian Air Force data, marking an escalation that Kyiv's air defences are struggling to counter. The drones' far greater speed, over 300mph, makes them significantly harder…

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Zelensky’s plane ‘was almost hit by a drone’ as it jetted to late King of Norway’s funeral

  • Zelensky's plane reportedly nearly hit by drone leaving Moldova
  • Ukraine downplayed danger, calling it an airspace alert
  • He then attended King Harald V's funeral in Oslo

Volodymyr Zelensky's plane was reportedly "almost hit" by a Russian drone shortly after take-off from Moldova on Tuesday, as the Ukrainian president travelled to Oslo to attend the funeral of Norway's King Harald V. Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere disclosed the incident to broadcaster NRK, though he…

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Russia and Ukraine exchange strikes as two killed at Moldova border

  • Russian drone strike on Ukraine-Moldova border crossing kills two
  • Ukrainian drone attack on Novorossiysk, Russia, kills four
  • Strikes continue despite US-led push for Russia-Ukraine talks

Russian drones struck the Starokozache border crossing between Ukraine and Moldova overnight, killing two people and injuring three others, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Odesa regional governor Oleg Kiper. In a separate attack, a Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian Black Sea city of Novorossiysk killed…

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Ukrainian TV channel building hit by Russian drone as five killed in Kyiv

  • Russian drone hit Kyiv TV channel building, injuring five journalists live on air
  • Wider strikes killed five in Kyiv; train attack killed one in the south
  • US-brokered talks ended without breakthrough; Zelensky expects war into winter

A Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukrainian TV channel We Are Ukraine in Kyiv on Tuesday, injuring at least five people while journalists were broadcasting live. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack as a "new page in Russian degradation" and renewed his appeal for allied support, as…

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