Russia launched one of its largest air strikes on Kyiv in over three years of war and struck a maternity ward in the southern city of Odesa, officials said.

Russia and Ukraine are in a vast drone arms race, with each country aiming to produce 30,000 long-range drones this year.

Ukraine shoots down nearly 500 drones, missiles in Russian record strike, Air Force says Ukraine begins new major prisoner exchange with Russia Russia claims offensive in Dnipropetrovsk Oblast aimed at creating 'buffer zone,

The prisoners of war (POWs) were released as part of a prisoner exchange with Russia agreed upon during recent peace talks in Istanbul, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of the POWs said.

The Ukrainian president says he was informed the U.S. would divert key defensive weapons from Ukraine to the Middle East.

Former Ukrainian Internal Affairs adviser Anton Gerashchenko, on X: "It is reported that for the first time in history, an F-16 has shot down a Russian Su-35 'Flanker...Thankful to Ukrainian Allies for providing us with the tools!"

Russia has used its fleet of bombers to rain hellfire on Ukraine. On June 1, Kyiv responded by going after those bombers.

An air-raid warning has been issued in all Ukrainian oblasts on the morning of 9 June due to the take-off of a Russian MiG-31K fighter jet, which is a carrier of the Kinzhal hypersonic missile. Later,