War in Ukraine

Russian drone and missile strikes killed at least three people overnight in Ukraine, officials said Saturday, while a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Krasnodar region killed two others, a day after a strike on a Ukrainian shopping center killed 16 people.

From loyal staffer to bombshell-dropping rival: Ukraine’s ousted defense minister has made his move, with a call for wartime elections that put him in direct confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

The chief economist at Russian state development corporation VEB, was fired after saying that Moscow was falling behind the West as its war in Ukraine goes on.

Ukrainian forces staged one of their biggest drone attacks on Russia since Moscow’s invasion more than four years ago, firing almost 800 drones just two days after launching a similar salvo, officials said Tuesday.

Fuel shortages have returned to some regions of Russia in August, prompting local authorities in at least 10 regions to again tighten controls on sales of motor fuel at petrol stations, according to authorities and regional media.

Left vulnerable by a critical shortage of U.S. missile interceptors, Ukrainian cities have been defenseless against intensifying Russian aerial attacks.

BUCHAREST — An F-18 fighter on a NATO air policing mission shot down a drone that illegally breached Romanian national airspace, the fourth unmanned aircraft shot down over ⁠the country this year, Romania’s defence ministry said on Sunday.

A large-scale Ukrainian attack struck industrial infrastructure in Russia’s southwestern Samara region Saturday, a Russian official said.

Anti-ship missiles, aerial and sea drones blitzed a major Russian naval base on the Black Sea coast, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

WASHINGTON — The Senate voted overwhelmingly to pass legislation to impose sanctions against Russia and Iran after months of fits and starts, with the death of Republican Sen.