Ukraine came under a deadly overnight assault as Russian forces launched three Iskander-M ballistic missiles and 51 attack drones, including around 30 Shahed-type loitering munitions, across 15 regions.

An 8-year-old boy survived one of Russia’s worst attacks on Ukrainian children. After, investigators — and his family — struggled to find answers.

The move comes days after a deal with Washington that lifted U.S. sanctions against the Belarusian potash industries, a key source of export earnings.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko says Russia's latest hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile has been deployed in his country and is ready for use.

Russia's Oreshnik missile, with a speed of Mach 10, a range of 5,500 km, and the ability to carry multiple nuclear warheads, has been deployed in Belarus; it could completely alter the balance of power in Europe amidst the ongoing conflict in Ukraine.

Russia has this year formed a military brigade equipped with its new hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile, TASS news agency quoted the chief of the general staff, Valery Gerasimov, as telling a briefing for foreign military attaches on Thursday.

The missile, whose name means hazel tree in Russian, was publicly revealed in November 2024 after it was used in a strike on the Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

Leaked Russian production and financial documents show that Moscow is manufacturing a new Iskander 1000 ballistic missile with a range of up to 1,000