Russia has deployed around 170,000 troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region where they are trying to capture the stronghold of Pokrovsk in a major push for a battlefield victory, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.

Russia has in recent months attacked Ukraine with a cruise missile whose secret development prompted Donald Trump to abandon a nuclear arms control pact with Moscow in his first term as U.S. president...

The strikes killed at least two people and injured 17, including children between two and 16 years of age, according to authorities, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) warned Thursday that a Russian missile and drone attack on Ukrainian power plants had jeopardized nuclear safety.

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry denounced on Friday what it described as Russian attacks on substations critical to supplying external power for Ukraine's nuclear power stations.

“We believe they’ve lost up to 20% of their gasoline supply — directly as a result of our strikes,” he told reporters at a briefing in Kyiv.