Ukraine strikes Russian fighter jet, air defense system in Kursk Oblast, General Staff says * Fires break out in Russia's Lipetsk amid reported overnight attack *

Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov ‘reaffirmed readiness’ for political and diplomatic settlement to Russia-Ukraine war.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Thursday in the Philippines for talks where he was expected to renew the prospect of the U.S. trying to broker an end to the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council for July 27 following Russian attacks on ships in the Black Sea, acting Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said on

Shipowners have temporarily suspended vessel arrivals at Ukraine's Black Sea ports for agricultural exports after a recent surge in Russian attacks on ports and merchant shipping,

Ukraine has made significant progress in the war this year, and a rift between the country's outgoing army chief and its defense minister threatened to derail its efforts.

The US secretary of state said proposals put forward so far were ‘not acceptable to Ukraine’

A Russian missile strike has destroyed $2.6m (£1.9m) worth of HIV prevention supplies in Ukraine, according to an international aid group.

Russia warned the United States on Thursday against making "unacceptable" arms deliveries to Ukraine, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement.

Ukraine has hit warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia's answer to Amazon, for the third time in a week, extending a long-range campaign that now reaches a thousand kilometers inside Russia. Kyiv says the sites feed the Russian military's supply chain;