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Power outages reported after barrage of rockets fired at several regions in second such attack in days

Ukrainian authorities have reported explosions in at least three cities, saying Russia has launched a major missile attack on energy facilities and infrastructure

Attacks have been reported in Kyiv, Kharkiv, Kryvyi Rih and Zaporizhzhia

Russia rained down scores of missiles on Ukraine's power grid on Friday, killing at least three people, damaging nine energy facilities and forcing Kyiv to introduce emergency blackouts across the country as winter bites.

The EU on Thursday agreed a fresh round of sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine, after complaints from hawkish eastern European leaders that some countries were trying to water them down. Diplomats said a compromise deal – thought to include targeting some 200 individuals – was reached on…

Fragments from one of the Russian kamikaze drones that were destroyed contained the words 'For Ryazan' – the region in western Russia where a military base was attacked last week

Ukrainian authorities said they thwarted a Russian attack on Kyiv and the surrounding region Wednesday as their air defense system destroyed 13 explosive-laden drones, although wreckage damaged five buildings without causing casualties. The attempted strikes underlined how vulnerable Ukraine's capital remains to the regular Russian attacks that have devastated infrastructure…

Russian forces firing multiple rocket launchers hit the regional administration building on the central square of the recently liberated southern Ukrainian city of Kherson on Wednesday, a senior Ukrainian official.

Mayor Vitali Klitschko wrote in a post on Telegram that there were explosions in the central Shevchenkivskyi district

Ukraine has secured the release of a US citizen and 64 Ukrainian soldiers in a prisoner swap with Russia, the Ukrainian presidency’s chief of staff said Wednesday. Earlier in the day, there were multiple explosions near Ukraine’s capital Kyiv but no casualties have been reported. Read our live blog to…