The UK government has said the threat of a Russian attack is being taken ‘seriously’.

Bar an incursion into Russia’s Kursk region, Ukraine has been losing ground almost continuously since 2022. Russian advances have been slightly faster this year than last. In 2025 Russia’s forces have so far seized 4,

Russian forces have surrounded the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70 per cent of it, President Vladimir Putin claimed on Thursday, though Kyiv's top general insisted Ukrainian defenders were pushing back hard amid fierce fighting in the city centre.

Putin has praised what his commanders claim is the full Russian capture of the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk, calling it a major achievement after a prolonged battle and saying it would support Moscow’s wider war goals.

As President Trump attempts to help negotiate an end to Russia's war in Ukraine, questions have grown about what will happen to Ukrainian territory claimed by the Kremlin and held by Russian forces. Mr. Trump has said any ceasefire agreement between Russia ...

Putin also claimed that Zelensky’s European allies have pushed for demands that are “absolutely unacceptable."

At least two people have been killed and 15 injured in overnight Russian drone and missile attacks on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, according to the city officials. Russia claims to have destroyed more than 100 Ukrainian drones over the annexed Crimean peninsula, regions in Russia, and the Azov Sea.

Top Trump administration officials are meeting Ukrainian negotiators in Florida this weekend, pushing to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine and setting the stage for key talks planned this week in Moscow with Russian leader Vladimir Putin.