Dan Peleschuk

Ukraine urged its partners on Thursday to speed up military aid, saying quicker delivery of critical battlefield equipment was more important than drafting more men.

Russian forces executed five Ukrainian prisoners of war during a single incident in eastern Ukraine last month, the Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office said on Friday.

On her way to hospital to give birth to her fourth child nearly three years ago, Ukrainian Liudmyla Rodchenko said she saw the bodies of civilians strewn along the street covered by blankets.

When he was asked to approach Ukrainian investigators with a $5 million bribe on behalf of a former top official in 2020, businessman Yevhen Shevchenko would have been entitled to a cut as the middleman.

Russia sent two waves of drones at the Ukrainian capital overnight in its 15th air attack on Kyiv this month, city officials said on Friday.

Ukraine said on Friday it was investigating the death in Russian captivity of a Ukrainian journalist whose first-hand reports provided a glimpse into life under Russian occupation early in Moscow's invasion.

Russia is increasingly using highly destructive guided bombs in its more than 2-1/2-year-old invasion of Ukraine, pummeling Ukrainian forces on the battlefield as well as towns and cities near the front line.

Ukraine's newly minted judges have waited years to be hired and know they must create trust in the courts for the country's European aspirations to be realised.

Ukrainian leaders have cast the attack as proof that Ukraine's military can still succeed in offensive operations - and still surprise.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday his country's assault on Russia's Kursk region showed that Kremlin threats of retaliation were a bluff, and he urged Kyiv's allies to loosen curbs on using foreign-supplied weapons.