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Ukraine shows off what they claim is a captured Russian drone but its unsophisticated design says something about the state of the war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held talks with Pope Francis at the Vatican, saying it was a great honour to meet with the pontiff,

The battle for Bakhmut has apparently taken a turn in favour of Ukraine, with the Russians retreating in “bad order”, according to UK intel.

Germany will provide Ukraine with an additional 2.7 billion euros in military aid, including tanks, anti-aircraft systems, and ammunition.

The Eurovision Song Contest will hold its final competition on Saturday, pitting 25 of the continent’s most musical countries – and Australia, for some reason – against each other in an increasingly unsuccessful bid to prevent them from going to war.

President Zelenskly wanted to address the hundreds of millions worldwide expected to watch the finals of the Eurovision on Saturday.

U.S. M1 Abrams battle tanks destined to train Ukrainian forces have arrived in Germany and are on their way to the Grafenwoehr Army base ahead of schedule, Pentagon officials announced Thursday.

UK reveals “calibrated and proportionate response to Russia’s escalations” with world-first donation of long-range cruise missiles.

Russians will soon get an “unpleasant surprise” regarding their invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

Former President Donald Trump said Wednesday at a CNN town hall-style event in New Hampshire that the European Union needs to start paying “a lot more money” to subsidize the war in Ukraine, which he vowed to have “settled in one day” if elected.

Wagner leader Yevgeny Prigozhin appeared to take some verbal shots at Vladimir Putin, seemingly referring to him as a delusional “grandpa”.

The toll of Russia’s war on its own armed forces was apparently laid bare as a major military parade was graced by just one tank.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin told his country during a speech Tuesday to mark the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II that the West was seeking to “destroy” Russia and “cross out the results” of the war, comparing the greater West to Nazis.

One per cent of Western GDP is a small sacrifice to defeat Russia and is dwarfed by what America spent to beat Nazi Germany, says Ukraine.

The Biden administration is set to hand Ukraine another $1.2 billion in military aid, U.S. government insiders say.

The EU is preparing new sanctions against Russia, which will reportedly include firms from China accused of assisting Moscow’s war in Ukraine.

Russia is settings its sights further east to man the front lines, with Tajik and Uzbeki recruits enticed with signing bonuses and high pay.

The head of the Wagner mercenary group said Russia had promised more ammunition after threatening to pull out in scathing videos.

The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog expressed growing anxiety about the safety of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant amid ongoing fighting.

The car of prominent pro-Kremlin novelist Zakhar Prilepin exploded in Russia on Saturday, injuring him and killing his driver.

Ukrainian armed forces claimed to have shot down a Russian hypersonic missile using the American-made Patriot missile defence system.

Russian paramilitary leader Yevgeny Prigozhin threatened to pull troops out of Bakhmut, the centre of Ukraine’s fight against Moscow’s forces.

Russia’s state-controlled Sputnik News reported on Wednesday that TVEL, a subsidiary of Russia’s state atomic energy corporation Rosatom, will supply two Chinese nuclear reactors with highly enriched uranium fuel for the next three years.

Multiple physical altercations occurred on Thursday between Russian and Ukrainian representatives at the Organisation of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) assembly in Turkey, including one in which a Ukrainian delegate punched his Russian counterpart in the face.

Russia sees “uptick in rail accidents” and country will struggle to protect the tracks it relies on to move military supplies, says UK.

It is “obvious” why Russia is interested in European infrastructure and there is suspicion cables and pipes may already have been “mined”. 

India and Russia on Thursday suspended talks about using the Indian rupee as currency to settle their bilateral trade, greatly disappointing Indian importers who wanted Russia to embrace their national currency but reassuring Americans worried about the dollar losing its coveted position as the standard medium of international trade.

The Chinese Global Times government newspaper described the alleged drone attack on the Kremlin early Wednesday morning as the crossing of a “red line” in the ongoing Russian invasion of Ukraine: the targeting of heads of state.

Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Thursday that leader Vladimir Putin was “calm and collected” in the face of what Russia claimed to be a Ukrainian assassination attempt against the president.

Former President Donald Trump has told Nigel Farage that he would be able to end the war in Ukraine within 24 hours if reelected in 2024.

Ukrainian Zelenskyy said on Thursday he was convinced that Russian President Putin would face an international war crimes court.

“Severe and inevitable punishment” is coming to Ukraine for a blast at the Kremlin, top allies of Vladimir Putin said.

In a veiled shot at Emmanuel Macron, former French PM François Fillon critisised leaders for treating Russia as a greater threat than China.

Russia announced on Wednesday that security would be increased across Moscow, and Victory Day celebrations scaled back, due to the possibility of attacks by alleged Ukrainian saboteurs.

Russia says it prevented a drone strike on Kremlin, as dramatic video footage shows what they claimed to be a “terrorist attack”.