Ukrainian Minister of Foreign Affairs Dmytro Kuleba called on partners to provide Taurus and ATAK MS missiles to Ukraine as soon as possible.
"Long-range missiles have proven to be crucial. That's why Taurus and ATAK MS are critical to Ukraine's success, and we ask our partners to provide them as soon as possible. Both will be used exclusively within our borders. The longer the missile's range, the shorter the war ", Kuleba wrote on the social platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
The United States has imposed new sanctions on four Russians linked to the financial and investment conglomerate Alfa Group.
According to the US Ministry of Finance, people who were members of the supervisory board of the Alfa Group - Petr Olegivich Aven, Mikhail Maratovich Fridman, German Borisovich Kahn and Aleksey Viktorovich Kuzmichev - were targeted for sanctions, reports Reuters.
Alfa Group is one of the largest financial and investment conglomerates in Russia that has been hit by sanctions. Sanctions were also imposed on the Russian Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.
A court in the Moscow region today sentenced musician and environmental activist Alexander Bakhtin to six years in prison for three posts on social networks condemning Russia's attack in Ukraine.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has fired military officials responsible for conscription in every region of the country, citing corruption charges that he said could amount to treason.
"We are replacing all regional military commissars," Zelensky said in a post on social media after a meeting with senior military leadership, Radio Free Europe reports.
"This system should be led by people who know exactly what war is and why cynicism and bribery in wartime represent high treason," he added.
Kiev has recruited Ukrainians into assault battalions for its counter-offensive against Russian forces to retake territory controlled by Moscow troops.
The move reflects Ukraine's efforts to crack down on bribery and corruption as part of sweeping reforms demanded by Western institutions like the European Union, which Ukraine aspires to.
(Radio Free Europe)
An eight-year-old boy was killed in a Russian rocket attack on a house in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in western Ukraine, the governor and state prosecutors announced, reports Reuters.
"There are wounded (people), including a child who was transported to the hospital in critical condition. Doctors did everything possible, but unfortunately the child's life was not saved," governor Svitlana Onišchuk wrote on the Telegram messaging app.
Russia's Defense Ministry said today that its forces had struck a site where "foreign mercenaries" were being housed in Ukraine's Zaporozhye region, after Kiev said a Russian missile hit a hotel on Thursday night, killing one person and injuring 16. was injured, reports Reuters.
Local media reported that the damaged building was the hotel "Reikartz" in the center of the city of Zaporizhia on the banks of the Dnieper River.
Several explosions were heard in Ukraine's capital Kiev today after authorities declared an airstrike alert across the country, witnesses told Reuters.
Mayor Vitalij Klitschko told residents to stay in shelters.
Kyiv city authorities announced that Ukrainian air defenses were at work.
Ukraine's deputy defense minister has vowed to help bring military commanders accused of sexual harassment to justice, after a female soldier came forward with allegations of "unacceptable" behaviour.
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One of the founders of Russia's largest internet firm has condemned the "barbaric" invasion of Ukraine, days after criticism in Russia of his apparent effort to distance himself from the country.
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