Recent strikes are hitting at the core of Russia’s economy, but they are risky, and their ultimate impact is uncertain.

Exclusive drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control.

The European Union wants to tap €200 billion ($354 billion) of frozen Russian assets to help Ukraine. The unprecedented plan is causing controversy.

The US officials invited Kyiv’s national security advisor Rustem Umerov to Florida for discussions after leaving their Tuesday meeting with Putin at the Kremlin without an agreement in hand.

Moving between damp basements and muddy dugouts to fend off constant Russian attacks in the nearly 4-year-old war, exhausted Ukrainian soldiers say their motivation is fortified by knowing they're fighting for higher cause: the defense of their homeland.

The missile-armed Shahed appears to be Russia's attempt to counter Ukrainian aircraft. A Ukrainian defense manufacturer said Monday that its interceptor took down a Russian drone armed with an air-to-air missile, an unusual configuration signaling a new battlefield tactic.

Both vessels are on a list of ships subject to sanctions imposed against Russia following its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Four people were killed and 40 wounded in a Russian missile attack on the eastern-central Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Monday, Ukrainian officials said. The attack came amid an intensified diplomatic push to end the nearly four-year war,