At his first NATO summit, Secretary-General Mark Rutte will try to keep Donald Trump onside, Ukraine out of the spotlight, and the alliance united behind a bigger defense budget -- all from his hometown of The Hague.

Kyiv is gearing up on May 25 for the third day of a mass prisoner exchange with Moscow following scenes of raw emotion as Ukrainian prisoners returned from incarceration in Russia, even as both sides exchanged drone attacks on the opposing capital cities.

Ukrainian reconnaissance troops from the Chornyi Lis (Black Forest) artillery brigade have detected and adjusted fire on a launcher for a state-of-the-art Russian Buk-M3 air defence system.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that the third stage of a prisoner swap with Russia will take place on Sunday 25 May.

DeepState, a Ukrainian group of military analysts, has reported that Russian forces have managed to gain a foothold in Sumy Oblast along the Veselivka-Zhuravka-Novenke-Basivka section. On its interactive map of hostilities, DeepState has marked this area…

European leaders are exploring the purchase of US-made weapons to arm Ukraine if the United States halts direct military aid.

Serhii Kyslytsia, Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia in Istanbul, revealed that on 16 May, Russian delegates, led by Vladimir Medinsky, made threatening and inflammatory remarks, including…

Russia launched a large-scale drone attack on the city of Kyiv on the night of 24-25 May. Debris from downed drones injured at least 11 people and damaged residential buildings in several districts of the capital.

Serhii Kyslytsia, Ukraine’s First Deputy Foreign Minister and a member of the Ukrainian delegation at the talks with Russia in Istanbul, has revealed that the Russian delegation categorically rejected an unconditional ceasefire during negotiations on 16 May.

A Russian drone struck a five-storey residential building in Mykolaiv overnight on 24-25 May, killing one person and injuring five, including a teenager. Two floors of the building were completely destroyed and three more were damaged.

A Russian missile attack on Khmelnytskyi Oblast overnight on 24-25 May has killed four civilians and injured five, causing significant damage to housing and social infrastructure.

Three children have been killed and 12 people injured as a result of a large-scale overnight Russian attack on Zhytomyr Oblast.

At least 12 people were killed in continuing overnight Russian strikes throughout Ukraine on May 25, with scores of residents wounded. In what Ukrainian authorities said was the largest Russian air assault since the start of the war, numerous cities and regions…

New attacks push its air defences to saturation point

US President Donald Trump said he is “not happy” with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and that he is considering further sanctions against Moscow following a series of deadly drone strikes against Ukrainian cities.

On 25 May, Ukraine and Russia carried out the third part of the thousand-for-thousand prisoner exchange which was agreed upon in Türkiye. A total of 303 Ukrainian defenders have been released from Russian captivity.

The Netherlands will complete the transfer of 24 F-16 fighter jets to Ukraine on Monday 26 May, fulfilling its earlier commitment to support Kyiv’s defense capabilities.

Colonel Denys “Redis” Prokopenko, Commander of the Azov National Guard Brigade, has stated that not a single Azov fighter was included in the recent three-day prisoner exchange with Russia. He said he does not believe the Ukrainian authorities are interested…

Journalist Stanislav Aseyev has drawn attention to the plight of civilians who have been held in Russian captivity for eight years, pointing out that not one of them was among those released during the recent thousand-for-thousand prisoner exchange.

US President Donald Trump has sharply criticised Russian leader Vladimir Putin, saying that he had completely lost his mind and warning that if he tried to take over all of Ukraine, it would lead to the downfall of Russia.