Russia’s summer offensive in Ukraine is gaining ground as its forces attack on multiple fronts.

NATO was forced to scramble war plans after Vladimir Putin launched a savage new attack on Ukraine. Russia pummelled crucial military targets and civilian areas in a five-hour missile and drone barrage. However Moscow also came under attack for the third night in a row, as Volodymyr Zelenskyy defied Trump’s order not to target the Russian capital.

Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa early on Saturday, setting ablaze at least one multi-storey apartment building and killing one resident, author...

The attack damaged critical infrastructure in Sumy, where several thousand families suffered power cuts, he added in a statement on the Telegram messaging app.