Four dead in Kyiv as Putin’s forces launch barrage of drones and missiles - ‘This aggressive Russian action is not acceptable,’ French defense minister said

Here are the key developments on the 1,060th day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

High-ranking sources told independent Russian outlet Meduza that Russia's elites are disappointed the Ukraine war didn't end in 2024 and feel fatigue.

Russia's Ministry of Defence announced on the morning of 6 January that the town of Kurakhove in Donetsk Oblast had been captured, but Ukrainian defenders have reported that Russian assaults continue in the city's urban areas.

Ukraine launched an attack on Russia's Belgorod region with six U.S.-made ATACMS missiles on Thursday, the Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday. It said that Russia would retaliate, but that all the missiles had been intercepted,

Gravehawk has been retrofitted to fire air-to-air missiles that Ukraine already has, the UK MOD said. It's a possible solution to a major problem.

Ukraine's latest aerial bombardment was spread across 12 Russian regions, with targets including an oil depot and an airfield in Engels.

Russian-based Fly Drones has been deploying an anti-drone laser system—which could be employed to automatically detect, track, identify, and engage the airborne platforms.

Russia on Friday sentenced three lawyers who had defended Alexei Navalny to several years in prison for bringing messages from the late opposition leader from prison to the outside world.

The push comes amid increasing militarization of European research, which began after Russia’s incursions into Ukraine in 2014 and ramped up following the full-scale invasion in 2022. Boosting dual-use research is part of the European Union’s response to a “more threatening geopolitical context”, commission president Ursula von der Leyen has said.

It comes as Russia launched a major ballistic and cruise missile attack across Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure