The US, UK, France and Germany on Tuesday announced sanctions against Iran for supplying Russia with short-range ballistic missiles to use in its war in Ukraine. In a joint statement, the governments of France, Britain and Germany said they were coordinating a “strong response” with their European and international partners, including cancelling bilateral air agreements with Iran.

If invading Russians seize this vital transport hub, Ukraine could lose the entire Donetsk region.

Russia claimed on Sunday that its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as they advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky again urged Kyiv's partners to give him more scope to use Western-supplied weapons against targets inside Russia.

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Kiev’s incursion in Kursk Region has failed to achieve its goal and may lead to a complete defeat, the Russian president has said

Russian troops are inching ever close to Ukraine’s eastern city of Pokrovsk, a vital logistical hub for Kyiv’s outgunned and outnumbered forces, leading some analysts to question the wisdom of a Ukrainian lightning offensive on Russian soil that was intended to distract Moscow from its Donbas push. 

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has pleaded for more missile systems and jet fighters to shield the country

Relations between Moscow and Ulaanbaatar are developing in all areas, the Russian leader has said

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed his air force chief after one of the country's F-16 fighter jets crashed while repelling a Russian air attack, killing the pilot, Oleksiy Mes. “We need to protect people. Protect personnel. Take care of all our soldiers,” Zelensky said in an address.

Mariana Bezuglaya believes the military may be hiding the true cause of the incident

The US-made jet reportedly crashed, killing the Western-trained pilot

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The Telegram CEO had a face-to-face discussion with the French leader in 2018 that was not previously reported, the outlet has said

The Telegram CEO was arrested in France as part of a probe into his alleged complicity in numerous criminal activities on the platform

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Finland, as an immediate neighbor of Russia, expressed concern it could be attacked from their side 

Despite its overwhelming firepower, Russia has been unable for weeks to push Ukrainian troops back across the border, with the failure as much the result of priorities as a lack of personnel.

Several bases were struck while Kiev boasted of using F-16s in an air-defense role

Attack of 127 missiles and 109 drones is ‘one of the biggest’ of the war, Zelenskiy says, causing power and water outages