Ukraine said it struck a Russian airbase on Saturday, while Russia continued to pound Ukraine with hundreds of drones overnight as part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that has further dashed hopes for a breakthrough in efforts to end the more than 3-year-old war.

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Deputy head of the Russian Navy Major General Mikhail Gudkov, who had led a brigade fighting against Ukraine, was killed in a Ukrainian attack on Russia's southern Kursk region, the Russian Defence Ministry confirmed on Thursday.

Exclusive photos and video have emerged from a large-scale prisoner exchange conducted by Ukraine and Russia on July 4, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). "Today's exchange is the result of the work of the Joint Center for the Coordination of the Search and Release of Prisoners of War,