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Donald Trump’s latest peace bid for Ukraine focused on a piece of real estate, the Zaporizhzhia power plant, in his latest phone call with Volodymyr Zelensky. The US would take over the repairs and management of the complex, the biggest nuclear generating facility in Europe, and tenth in the world.

A strike on Odesa came shortly before a visit by President of the Czech Republic, Peter Pavel, who committed further aid to Ukraine's war-torn regions.

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This is the moment Russia allegedly bombed its own crucial gas pipeline in Sudzha, located in the Russian border region of Kursk.

Amid uncertainty as to when part-ceasefire will take effect, Kremlin says it will cover only ‘energy infrastructure’

Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires

North Korea has already started the production of the anti-missile defence system and carried out the test to examine its performance, reports say

The discrepancies between how the US and others are interpreting Trump’s calls are adding up

‘I think people are over-interpreting what the Prime Minister said yesterday,’ Ed Miliband added.

Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago