#UKRAINE

A massive Russian missile and drone attack killed around nine people in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, overnight and left up to 63 wounded, according to local authorities.

Ukraine's military said it has hit a Russian long-range drone production site in Tatarstan deep inside Russia, damaging the final assembly line.

Trump and U.S. foreign policy chief issued a similar warning last week.

Ukraine’s internal Security Service (SBU) has charged 14 senior archbishops, bishops and metropolitans of the Russian Orthodox Church in absentia for taking part in the seizure of Ukrainian churches in Russian-occupied territories.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has abruptly cancelled his his trip to London.

Sikorski also said EU and NATO membership are key to Poland’s defense.

A court in the Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia region of eastern Ukraine has sentenced two local women to 14 years in a penal colony each for making donations to the Ukrainian armed forces.

Officials from the U.S., U.K. France and Ukraine will discuss ceasefire proposals.

A Russian drone hit a bus carrying workers in the Ukrainian city of Marhanets early Wednesday, killing nine people in a wave of attacks targeting civilian infrastructure across eastern, southern and central Ukraine, officials said.

An executive body representing Crimea’s Tatar minority has vowed to oppose any international recognition of the Moscow-occupied Ukrainian peninsula as part of Russia.

The Russian president reportedly made the offer earlier this month.

Both sides are under pressure to demonstrate progress towards ending the war.

If Ukraine falls, Russian troops could storm into Moldova’s capital within days, using the country’s pro-Moscow breakaway region as a launchpad, a former Moldovan intelligence chief has warned.

A Russian journalist detained for publicly opposing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has gone on the run after escaping house arrest.

Ukraine’s president has proposed a halt to strikes on civilian targets.

The talks will also involve the U.K., U.S., and France.

Finland is keeping a growing number of its weapons exports a secret, raising concerns about government transparency and accountibilty.

U.S. President Donald Trump has said he hopes that Russia and Ukraine will sign a peace agreement this week.

Ukraine must dramatically raise its birth rate with an average three children per woman or face a deepening population crisis that could cripple the country’s future, a senior demographer has warned.

Russia launched dozens of missiles and drones targeting Ukraine early on Monday, waking up Kyiv and the eastern half of the country, hours after the one-day Easter ceasefire declared by Russian President Vladimir Putin came to an end.