Poland on Saturday scrambled fighter jets in response to Russian military aircraft near its border with Ukraine.

The death of a Russian Cabinet minister in a field near his posh home in a Moscow suburb has fueled wild speculation about how he died and what it means.

A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.

Russia’s coal industry has slipped into crisis under the weight of high borrowing costs and sanctions as slowing demand in China compounds with falling prices to expose deeper cracks in the economy.

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles overnight and Saturday as part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that killed at least six people and wounded dozens, officials said.

Given the weakness of Iran’s air force, the country has relied heavily on its own surface-to-air missile systems. However, during the “Twelve-Day War,” Israel succeeded in neutralizing Iran’s air defenses, clearly exposing their shortcomings.

Slovakia aims to reach an agreement with the European Commission and EU partners by Tuesday on guarantees it will not suffer from the end of Russian gas supplies and on a new sanctions package against Russia,

Nighttime assaults on the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv have intensified in the fourth year of Russia's full-scale invasion, with the number of drones sometimes exceeding 700. Swarms of 1,000 drones could soon become the norm,