Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with momentum in the Donbas.

A new NATO command in the German city of Wiesbaden has taken up its work to coordinate Western military aid for Ukraine, the alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Wednesday.

Human Rights First has been documenting human rights issues in Ukraine since Russia’s 2014 invasion. Since the full-scale invasion of February 2022 I’ve made 17 research visits to the country, focusing on the work of Human Rights Defenders at the eastern front.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is to join EU leaders in Brussels on Thursday to seek fresh support as the re-election of US President-elect Donald Trump casts uncertainty over his country's fate.

Russia has launched dozens of missiles and drones against Ukraine as at least one person was killed in the capital of Kyiv in the attack. Ukraine’s air force said Russia had fired 60 drones on Thursday night, though 20 were downed well before they reached their target, and five ballistic missiles at towns and cities across the country.

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The attack comes a day after Vladimir Putin challenged the West to an “experiment” in which Russia would fire its modern Oreshnik missile at Kyiv to prove that Western air defence systems were incapable of intercepting it.

A new war map has shown Russia is making swift advancements toward Pokrovsk, a city in eastern Ukraine, despite losses in troops and equipment.

The command has taken over the coordination of military aid for Ukraine from the United States. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Putin hosts Slovak PM in rare visit and vows ‘destruction’ after Kazan drone attack - Kyiv has not claimed responsibility for the Kazan attack

At a summit in Brussels ... Ukraine brought the war into the heart of Russia Saturday morning with drone attacks that local authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan ...

Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian composer,