AfD leader Alice Weidel sayd Germany should end its boycott of Russian oil and pledged to restore Moscow ties as Chancellor.

Meanwhile, Russia's claimed 1.7-million-ton gasoline reserve hasn't stopped queues and rationing from spreading at the pump.

Ukraine is serial-producing its own Riff anti-aircraft missile system with RK-10 missiles, built on the Soviet Strela-10 chassis.

Ukrainian police have repeatedly found explosive devices and grenades in fallen soldiers' bodies returned by Russia through repatriation.

Ukraine's 57th Separate Motorized Infantry Brigade used a General Cherry AIR interceptor to destroy Russia's new Sokol-I anti-drone drone.

Russia's government floated a diesel export ban, then backed off days later, as refinery losses from Ukrainian strikes mount.

Ukraine's Avarid presented Mobidik naval drone in six versions, from air defense to 300-kg port strikes at the defense conference.

The EU has paid out the first $3.9 billion of a $6.5 billion drone-production tranche to Ukraine, with officials citing contract vetting for the delay.

The Russian Orthodox Church is pushing to make anti-abortion ideology part of mandatory university education for future doctors and lawyers ...

Components from Japanese manufacturers appear in 90% of Russian missile and drone types, Ukraine's sanctions commissioner Vlasiuk said.

Away from the battlefield, the Ukraine Recovery Conference in Gdańsk closed with more than €10 billion in pledges and a new flagship reconstruction fund.

Ukrainian partisan movement ATESH disabled a power distribution cabinet and a railway relay box near the Novomoskovsk Azot chemical plant.