The cities of Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, Mykolaiv, and Zhytomyr were all hit by Russian missiles and suicide drones overnight in what appears to be a campaign targeting energy and water supplies.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has gradually increased the number of strategic bombers at Olenya air base from none on August 12, to four Tu-160s on August 21, to 11 now.

Dr Oksana Leontyeva was a renowned oncologist who had saved countless children's lives performing bone-marrow transplants for the last 11 years at Okhmatdyt, Kyiv's top children's hospital.

Kyiv said at 83 missiles or drones were launched against the country on Monday morning, striking the capital and several other cities, killing civilians in the process.

Mikk Marran, the head of Estonia’s foreign intelligence agency, is optimistic about the future because he feels vindicated about the past.

Recent fatalities include Ivan Sushko, a wedding toastmaster appointed mayor of a town in the Zaporizhzhia region, who died in August after his car was blown up.

Ukraine has recaptured dozens of towns and villages in Kherson today after the Russian frontline collapsed, just days after Vladimir Putin declared he was annexing the region.

Russia's Gazprom suspended gas deliveries to Italy just days after new right-wing leader Giorgia Meloni publicly backed Ukraine.

After being encircled by Ukrainian forces, Russia pulled troops out Saturday from an eastern Ukrainian city that it had been using as a front-line hub. It was the latest victory for the Ukrainian counteroffensive that has humiliated and angered the Kremlin. Russia’s withdrawal from Lyman complicates its internationally vilified declaration just a day earlier that it had annexed four regions of Ukraine — an area that includes Lyman.

Russia's own Tass and RIA news agencies announced that troops have fled the key transportation hub of Lyman, citing the Russian defense ministry.