Russian forces have been using short-range FPV drones to target civilians in Kherson, Ukraine, and the surrounding area, which are crimes against humanity.

Pokrovsk was dubbed a "fortress" settlement in the Donetsk region, key to Ukrainian lines in the east and connected to other cities forming the backbone of Ukraine's defense in the east. Russia kicked off a push to take Pokrovsk in the summer of 2024.

Widescale Russian attack on Ukraine kills six, injures dozens, as Kyiv seeks US support for a resolution to the war.

Russian forces have surrounded the embattled Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk and control 70% of it, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday, but Kyiv's top general said Ukraine was pushing back hard and that fighting was raging in the city centre.

The battle for Pokrovsk, which Russians refer to by its Soviet-era name Krasnoarmeysk, has been going on since the middle of 2024. Located in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region, it was an important logistics hub for the Ukrainian army.

In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk stopped operations Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, or CPC, which owns the terminal.

Ukrainian forces are defending their positions and hunting down sabotage groups in the northeastern city of Kupiansk despite Moscow's statements that its troops are fully in control of it, Ukraine's top commander said on Friday.

The attack is the latest example of Russia’s efforts to use digital threats to target governments and organizations that have supported Ukraine,