One killed and 15 injured as Putin unleashes ‘massive’ attack on Kyiv - Pregnant woman among those injured while 55-year-old man battles severe thermal burns

Funding Ukraine with a reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets would be the most "effective" of three options being considered by the European Union to help Kyiv, the head of the bloc's executive Commission said on Thursday.

Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.

Ukrainian drones have struck a major oil refinery in Russia’s Volgograd region for the second time in nearly three months, according to Ukraine’s general staff.

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine would have to negotiate with Russia "sooner or later" and predicted that Kyiv's negotiating position would get worse by the day.

In fact, Putin has recently told the truth perhaps for the first time ever. Fighting is truly in the Russian genes. Looking at Russia (the muscovite tsardom and empire) reveals that periods of complete, absolute peace, when it did not wage any wars, wasn’t involved in external or internal conflicts, were few and far between.

Nighttime Ukrainian strikes have disrupted power and heating supplies to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border.

Through mass attacks on Ukrainian power plants, Russia is hoping to expose the country to the harsh winter—breaking its morale and prompting generous peace terms.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin believes it was a mistake to break up the Soviet Union in 1991 and many Russians agree with him. The fourteen new nations created or revived when the Soviet Union was dissolved believe otherwise.