Diplomats say Russia is trying to scare the West into reducing its support for Ukraine by hinting at the use of a tactical nuclear weapon to defend the annexed territories.
Senior Ukrainian official tells the New York Times that a private Israeli team is supplying Ukraine with satellite imagery of Russian troop positions. Residents of Kyiv awake to air raid sirens as capital region struck by Iranian-made kamikaze drones.
The massive salvo on Ukraine – which Moscow tried to explain as a precision strike on military installations despite being clearly against civilians – resulted in many dead. The official count stands at 19.
Sales of "Man's Search for Meaning" by Holocaust survivor Viktor Frankl increase by a whopping 279% as Russians turn to books to try and make sense of the Ukraine war.
"I think he is a rational actor who has miscalculated significantly," the US president says of his Russian counterpart.
Ukraine's Emergency Service says nearly 100 people were wounded in the morning rush hour attacks that Russia launched from the air, sea and land against at least 14 regions, spanning from Lviv in the west to Kharkiv in the east.
Residents were seen on the streets with blood on their clothes and hands.
The Kerch Bridge attack damaged an important supply route for the Kremlin’s faltering war effort in southern Ukraine, an artery that also is a towering symbol of Russia's power in the region.
Berit Reiss-Andersen, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, said the judges wanted to honor ”three outstanding champions of human rights, democracy and peaceful coexistence in the neighbor countries Belarus, Russia and Ukraine.”
Putin, who marks his 70th birthday on Friday, has warned he would use all means necessary, including Russia's nuclear arsenal, to protect Russian soil, which he now says includes four Ukrainian regions.
