Dan Peleschuk

Steelmaker ArcelorMittal said it was shutting ​production at Ukraine's largest steel plant, underscoring the growing economic toll of Russia's airstrikes that on Friday killed seven people in Kyiv including a 14-year-old boy ‌and injured 58.

Workshops like this one run by Ukraine's Third Army Corps have sprouted up across the 1,200-km front as Kyiv's outmanned army seeks to gain the technological edge against Russia's unrelenting infantry assaults.

Kyiv's defence minister said that ​the majority of the missiles would only be shipped ​in the coming years, and called for more urgent aid.

Ukraine is bracing for months of fierce fighting over key strongholds in the eastern Donetsk region.

Russian drones tore into central Kyiv on Wednesday morning, wounding 11 people and damaging residential and university ‌buildings on the seventh day of nearly round-the-clock attacks that have upended daily life in Ukraine's capital.

Ukraine's new defence minister said he would outline a "clear vision" for Kyiv's partners of how his country plans to fight Russia, as the government tries to bring forward ​part of a European Union loan to help cover a $27 billion military budget deficit.

Recent Russian air attacks have destroyed around 90% of retailers' food logistics, Kyiv's agricultural minister said on Friday, revealing the scope of Moscow's mounting attacks on ​Ukrainian logistics.

Ukraine thinks Russia is planning ​to draft an additional 300,000 troops for its war effort after Russian parliamentary elections in mid-September, Ukrainian President ‌Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.

Workers at Ukrainian steel giant Zaporizhstal have kept the sprawling complex running in the face of years of Russian drones, missiles and bombs. Now, the mill at the heart of Ukraine's southeastern steel industry faces a ​new threat to its survival.

A new wave of attacks has made life deadlier for ‌residents, part of Russia's escalating air war on Ukrainian cities as it makes only grinding progress on the front lines.