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Russia hit on ​Sunday the Northern bridge over the ‌Dnipro river in Kyiv, targeting a route used to transport troops and military cargo, the Russian ​Defence Ministry said.

Belarus freed 25 ​prisoners on Wednesday in return for a further easing of U.S. sanctions, and U.S. envoy John Coale told Reuters that hundreds more ‌could be released in a month.

With fighting on the front line largely stalled, Russia and Ukraine have increasingly targeted logistics networks and other economic assets.

Drone debris fell ​on the premises of ‌a number of businesses and close to an inhabited ​building in the ​Russian Black Sea port of ⁠Novorossiysk late on Tuesday, ​Mayor Andrei Kravchenko said ​on the Telegram messaging app.

A major Ukrainian attack on Russia's Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk hit warships at a naval base and forced two major grain terminals to halt operations on Wednesday, according to Russian and Ukrainian officials as well as grain industry sources.

Three crew members were seriously injured after ​a roll-on/roll-off cargo ship ‌was hit in a drone attack near Russia's Black Sea ​port of Novorossiysk, Turkey's ​maritime authority said late on ⁠Monday.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will propose ​that conservative parliamentary ‌director Steffen Bilger replace Patrick Schnieder as transport ​minister as ​part of an ongoing cabinet ⁠reshuffle, a government ​spokesperson said in ​a statement on Sunday.

Canadamarked the opening of a bridge connecting Windsor, Ontario, and Detroit, Michigan, on Friday in a quiet celebration without U.S. officials after a dispute over ‌toll-sharing and new threats of 50% tariffs from U.S. President Donald Trump further strained tense relations between the two countri...

Russia on Tuesday accused Ukraine of terrorism over its escalating attacks on shipping in the Sea of Azov, a route ‌that handles about a quarter of its grain exports.

Nearly 2 million ​people were evacuated ahead of Bavi's arrival.

Control over the Strait of Hormuz has become a "golden weapon" to Iran, for which it is willing to risk new escalations with the United States, and is a bigger ​priority than a nuclear programme for which it accepted decades of sanctions.

Ukrainian attacks have caused fuel shortages to spread from Russian-annexed Crimea ​to nearby parts of southern Russia, and even to the capital Moscow, ‌which has previously been spared, residents say.

A tanker reported being struck by a projectile in the Strait ​of Hormuz as the warring sides accused each other of violating an interim peace deal.

A train crashed into a school minivan at a level-crossing in the Belgian town of Buggenhout on Tuesday, killing four people including two special needs pupils, authorities said.

Ukraine's most skilled military drone pilots squared off this week not against Russia, but against each other in a competition to win bragging rights and state-of-the-art hardware for their units.

The Russia-controlled part of Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia region was experiencing emergency ​power blackouts on Friday, Russia-installed governor Yevgeny Balitsky ‌was quoted as saying by the Kommersant newspaper.

Ukraine launched a wave of drone attacks on targets across Russia on ‌Sunday, hitting the Baltic Sea port of Primorsk and setting it on fire, and striking a number of vessels, as it steps up attacks on energy infrastructure and other targets.