Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds more prisoners on Sunday, the Russian defense ministry said. The announcement came hours after a massive Russian drone-and-missile attack targeted Ukraine.

Russia and Ukraine swapped hundreds of prisoners Sunday just hours after Moscow launched one of the largest aerial assaults on Ukraine in the ongoing war.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has pledged to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missile systems that would be free of any Western-imposed limitations on their range and targets as the Kyiv government fights to repel Russia's invasion.

BERLIN (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with new German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in Berlin on Wednesday as Ukraine seeks further military support amid a recent escalation in Russia's bombing campaign, despite U.S.-led efforts to end the war.

Surovikin, whose reputation for acting brutally earned him the nickname of "General Armageddon" had largely disappeared from public view following a failed June 2023 mutiny and march on Moscow by Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, with whom he was closely associated.

Based on current figures, Dmitry Medvedev's proposed buffer zone would need 91 years and 50 million casualties, ISW analysts wrote on Sunday.

Russian energy giant Gazprom said on Tuesday it had put a business centre near Moscow that housed its offices up for sale for a starting price of 10.34 billion roubles ($129 million).

Donald Trump appears to have set a two-week deadline for Russian president Vladimir Putin to prove he is serious about wanting to end the war in Ukraine.On being asked in the Oval Office yesterday if he thought Mr Putin wanted to end the war,