The Latest Breaking News from Kremlin

Captain Oleksandr and his crew are on constant alert to shoot down Vladimir Putin’s swarming drones

US president says Russian counterpart ‘doing what anybody else would do’ as Ukraine faces escalating aerial attacks

Trial of three ‘minions’ in spy ring for Russia heard of chaotic errors, tangled relationships, a cancer lie and a red button

Moscow launches missile and drone strikes across Ukraine day after US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Britain was notably absent from the EU’s emergency defence summit – but Sir Keir Starmer has already assembled a ‘coalition of the willing’ to support Ukraine, and established himself as the nearest thing to a replacement leader of the free world

Britain will also continue to supply analysis of raw data but will not pass on shared US information, sources say

Former president Petro Poroshenko denied he was part of a reported White House plot to remove Ukraine leader from power

As the Trump administration takes an increasingly aggressive line towards Zelensky and his government, Sam Kiley and David Maddox look at the names emerging on who could replace the Ukrainian president

For three years, the Kremlin saw the United States as its biggest enemy, accusing US President Joe Biden of prolonging the Ukraine conflict by supplying weapons to Kyiv.