Hi, this is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,332 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story: Russia shot down its own Su-30SM fighter jet over Crimea while its air defense was trying to intercept Ukrainian drones flying to the occupied peninsula and deep inside Russia overnight,

Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said that Germany would buy $500 million worth of U.S. weapons for Ukraine under a new program to fast-track military equipment.

Russian forces are still edging forward along several parts of the long front line in Ukraine – despite yet another call from US President Donald Trump for a combat freeze along existing lines.

Direct conflict between Russia and NATO was once unthinkable, but preparations and defense spending have been stepped up in nervous Baltic states.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky failed to convince President Donald Trump of his nation's need for long-range Tomahawk missiles during a Friday meeting.

More than 25,000 soldiers and officers of Russia's Central Military District have gone AWOL in nine months – from November 2024 to July 2025. Source: Defence Intelligence of Ukraine (DIU) Details: According to DIU,

At least one person has been killed and thousands were without power on Saturday, after a barrage of Russian drones targeted energy facilities across Ukraine overnight.View on euronews

The video—mocking draft-dodgers, and reminding viewers that men who join the armed forces are in some cases allowed to travel abroad during their leave, surprising though that might seem—is the latest from the media team of one of Ukraine’s three most feted military units: the Azov, the Third Assault and the Khartiia.

Trump said the Ukraine leader would be on standby to join the talks with Putin in Budapest, Hungary, in case a chance for a breakthrough emerges.

At today's meeting of the Ukraine Defense Contact Group, representatives of 19 countries expressed their readiness to provide Ukraine with new military aid packages. — Ukrinform.

The Russian military targeted Ukraine’s second-largest city with glide bombs and drones in an overnight assault, days ahead of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meeting with President Trump

The answer may come from Ukraine, in the form of a radical new cruise missile —the FP-5 “Flamingo” from Ukrainian defense technology company Fire Point—and an unprecedented deal for Washington to buy billions of dollars of Ukrainian firepower.