A destroyed car lies on a road near apartment buildings damaged by Russian military strikes in the front-line town of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region, Ukraine, on October 13, 2025 [Handout: Oleg Petrasiuk/Press Service of the 24th King Danylo Separate Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces via Reuters]

US President Donald Trump criticised Vladimir Putin for the ongoing war in Ukraine, stating it makes the Russian leader \"look very bad.\" Trump express

The Kremlin will negotiate only if missiles and drones bring the pain of war home to Russians, Ukrainian officials say.

Almost 900 miles from Ukraine’s borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday. The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country’s security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.

When Russia destroyed Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Dam in June 2023, unleashing catastrophic floods across the country’s south, it seemed like such a blatant act of environmental and humanitarian devastation might finally jolt the international community into taking more action to support Ukraine.

Russia suffered approximately 1,125,150 casualties in Ukraine between February 24, 2022 and October 14, 2025, with 1,200 soldiers killed or wounded in the past 24 hours. — Ukrinform.

Exiled Kremlin critic Mikhail Khodorkovsky and several other prominent Russian opposition figures have been accused by the country's Federal Security Service (FSB) of creating a "terrorist organization" and of plotting to violently seize power.