Russia launched a large-scale air attack on Ukraine early Wednesday, causing power outages across most of the country, setting homes ablaze and killing at least six people, including a six-month-old baby,

Russian forces launched a massive overnight and early-morning attack on Kyiv using drones and missiles, sparking several fires and causing fatalities, according to Ukraine's State Emergency Service (DSNS).

Donald Trump has unleashed harsh new sanctions on two of Russia’s largest oil companies, the first such sanctions in his second term as US president. The Treasury Department said on Wednesday it was sanctioning Rosneft and Lukoil in response to Russian president Vladimir Putin’s “refusal to end this senseless war”.

The attack on the Bryansk facility came hours before Russian attacks left six people dead in Ukraine, officials said.

As Trump's plan to meet Putin is called off, Zelenskyy says another bloody night in Ukraine shows Russia isn't feeling "enough pressure for dragging out the war."

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday signed a letter of intent with Sweden to acquire 150 Gripen fighter jets, hours after fatal Russian attacks battered Ukraine's energy grid and spurred nationwide outages.

Europeans are unlikely to fear a potential influx of Ukrainians once the country joins the EU, as happened with previous rounds of Eastern European enlargement, since many Ukrainians have already successfully integrated into European societies following Russia's full-scale invasion.

Lviv, a city that has welcomed hundreds of thousands of displaced Ukrainians, is competing to become the 2030 European Capital of Culture.