Their targets are strategic: oil refineries, fuel depots, and military logistics hubs. Since the summer, Ukraine’s long-range drone campaign has ramped up dramatically, pounding energy infrastructure across Russia and stretching Moscow’s air defenses thin.

Ukraine's President Zelenskyy reported approximately 170,000 Russian troops are in Donetsk, intensifying efforts to capture Pokrovsk, though he denied the city is fully surrounded. Meanwhile, Ukraine continues long-range strikes on Russian oil infrastructure,

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov referred journalists to the Russian defence ministry on Friday when asked about a Reuters report that Russia had fired 9M729 missiles at Ukraine.

This marks the first time since the start of Russia's full-scale invasion that Ukraine has handed over a Russian prisoner of war to a foreign country for criminal prosecution.

Ukrainian soldiers told Business Insider the tactic is becoming increasingly frequent and a growing challenge.

Moscow’s forces infiltrated Pokrovsk after months of attacks on the city, a strategic part of Ukraine’s eastern defenses.

Ukraine's Special Operations Forces (SOF) have reported on an operation in which they destroyed a Buk-M3, the latest version of the surface-to-air missile system, and disabled a Nebo-U radar station in Russia's Rostov Oblast.

A Russian bomb strike on a Ukrainian thermal power plant killed two people and injured others on Thursday in the eastern city of Sloviansk, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Officials say Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday have killed at least four people and wounded 20.

The commander in chief of Ukraine's armed forces has warned Russian activity is increasing around the key frontline town of Pokrovsk, saying "the situation is difficult". General Oleksandr Syrskyi admitted Russian infantry was massing in the area and said he had visited the frontline himself for talks with key commanders.