Serhiy Lysak

Vikram Mittal is a contributor who covers aerospace and defense

Ukraine used its latest technology to deepen strikes against Russian oil storage, ports and refineries in the past week, bombing targets in the Urals 1,600 kilometres (990 miles) from its borders and prompting protests about “terrorist attacks” from the Kremlin spokesman

Ukraine has been intensifying its deep strikes like this for several weeks, targeting oil export facilities, in particular, like never before

Kyiv's EU accession progress had ​been blocked by Hungary's nationalist premier Viktor Orban, but his defeat in ​elections earlier this month raised hopes it can move to the next step

It has justified the blackouts as a necessary security measure against Ukrainian retaliatory drone strikes and the restrictions on messengers as a way to combat criminal activity that it says originate from Kyiv

Regional authorities reported damage to homes and civilian sites in Odesa, including a maternity hospital and several schools in the historic centre

AFP journalists heard loud bangs echoing over the capital during the night and saw huge plumes of black smoke rising over central Kyiv at dawn

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, meanwhile, made unannounced visits to the United Arab Emirates and Qatar, as Kyiv seeks to use its drone expertise to help Gulf Arab states blunt Iran’s attacks as the war in the Middle East rages on

The plant produces Ilyushin-76MD-90A military transport planes, Ilyushin-78M-90A refueling planes, and provides maintenance for “Ruslan” cargo planes, and is located about 800km (about 500 miles) from the Ukrainian border

Russia unleashed a massive air assault on Ukraine’s cities on the day French Defence Minister Catherine Vautrin visited Kyiv

Video shared by Ukraine's air force late on Sunday captured the explosion midair of a Russian Shahed 136 drone after it was shot by an F-16

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned the attack on the apartment block, as well as another strike with short-range rockets on what he described as a residential area without military targets in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia

Outside the Kadorr apartment complex in Ukraine’s Black Sea city of Odesa, about 500 metres from the seafront, residents and rescue workers mill around in freezing temperatures

The frightened and shaking men wore only underwear after being stripped of their winter uniforms