Help us defend and strike back against Russia, Zelenskiy pleads with allies; president says Pokrovsk defence efforts strenghtened. What we know on day 916

Ex-president also invited Tulsi Gabbard onstage, who said she’d do ‘all that I can to send President Trump back to the White House’

Attacks targeting energy infrastructure left four people dead and more than a dozen injured

Power cuts and water outages in many areas in attack that Zelenskiy calls ‘one of the biggest during the war’

 

At least three people killed in what appeared to be Moscow’s biggest attack in weeks

Ryan Evans was working as a safety adviser for Reuters when he was killed in a Russian strike on a hotel

 

Volodymyr Zelensky has offered his condolences to the family of a British ex-soldier who was killed in a suspected Russian strike in ukraine on Saturday, 24 August. Ryan Evans, 38, a safety adviser for the Reuters news agency, was in the Hotel Sapphi ...

Ryan Evans, a member of the Reuters team covering the war in ukraine, was killed in the strike in the eastern city of Kramatorsk

Officials say a body has been recovered from the rubble after a Russian missile hit Hotel Sapphire in Kramatorsk

One Russian attack saw a hotel in ukraine’s Kramatorsk hit with one journalist missing and two injured

News agency says two others taken to hospital for treatment following Russian missile attack in Kramatorsk

Russian attacks towards the city of Pokrovsk in eastern ukraine have proved successful in terms of territory gained but costly in terms of personnel losses

President publishes video on independence day showing him near where ukraine launched Kursk offensive. What we know on day 914

Volodymyr Zelensky says ‘we are doing our best to get everyone back’

Kyiv wants to launch Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles at Russia’s heartlands as ‘demonstration’ attacks

Russia and ukraine have exchanged drone, missile and artillery attacks as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow’s full-scale invasion

A somber atmosphere pervades ukraine’s 33rd Independence Day, as the nation’s war against Russia’s aggression reaches a 30-month milestone

Gulf state facilitates swap deal for Russian soldiers captured during Kursk incursion launched earlier this month