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Fresh wave of strikes shatters power infrastructure; Iran deepens support for Russia; how Kyiv’s statues are kept safe

President says destruction of Nova Kakhovka dam would mean large-scale disaster for towns and cities

The general carrying out President Vladimir Putin's new military strategy in Ukraine has a reputation for brutality — for bombing civilians in Russia's campaign in Syria. He also played a role in the deaths of three protesters in Moscow during the failed coup against Mikhail Gorbachev in 1991 that hastened…

Gen. Sergei Surovikin has become the face of Russia’s new military strategy in Ukraine, which includes unleashing a barrage of strikes against the country's infrastructure

Moscow blames incident on ‘technical malfunction’

The "false flag" attack would provide a distraction from Moscow's recent battlefield humiliation. Breaching the dam would also come as a blow to Ukraine's struggling energy grid, as civilians prepare for four-hour blackouts starting on Thursday

Russia's 'deluded' war chief has claimed he is helping to save lives, while missiles continue to be launched over the Ukrainian border

Russia’s president did not provide details of the extra powers the heads of annexed regions will have under his decree.

Kherson was the first major city to fall to the Russians at the start of the war and remains the only regional capital under Moscow’s control, so retaking it would be a huge victory for Ukraine

The head of the office of Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has dismissed the evacuation as ‘propaganda’

The move signals Russia's growing frustration over Ukrainian advances in areas the Kremlin claimed to annex. It came hours after Kremlin-appointed officials ordered civilians to evacuate Kherson.