Ukraine-Russia war latest: China told Putin not to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine, says Zelensky – UK Times
Kyiv faces fresh Russian missile attack, officials sayRussia pummeled Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles this morning, officials said. Reuters reported that a witness heard a series of powerful. . .
Kyiv faces fresh Russian missile attack, officials sayRussia pummeled Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles this morning, officials said. Reuters reported that a witness heard a series of powerful explosions in the city before the air alert was announced. The attack damaged a non-residential building in one district, while smoke was coming from another and an office building was in flames as a result of the strike, the city military administration said on the Telegram messaging app. Stuti Mishra11 July 2026 06:23Zelensky says it is unclear when will Ukraine receive Patriot missile interceptorsVolodymyr Zelensky has detailed the complications Ukraine is looking at after the US announced it will grant Kyiv a license to manufacture Patriot missile interceptors at home. “There are no dates set yet, but there will be additional PAC-3s,” Zelensky said, after returning from Turkey where he met with world leaders at the Nato summit. Zelensky said that while Patriot supply and production was “Ukraine’s number one priority”, the government was approaching the problem on “several fronts”. “First, we’re seeking a license from the US to manufacture Patriot systems,” he said. “Second, through the PURL program, we’re securing clear funding from Europe, and, through this program, acquiring PAC-3 and PAC-2 missiles for the corresponding systems. Third, we’re working… with our European partners to obtain additional missiles until we have our own system. ”Maira Butt11 July 2026 03:00Watch: Trump says US will let Ukraine manufacture Patriot missilesTrump says US will let Ukraine manufacture Patriot missilesMaira Butt11 July 2026 02:00In pictures: Ukrainian servicemen continue combat missions in DonetskUkrainian servicemen ride unmanned ground vehicles (UGV) during their combat mission, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Druzhkivka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine July 9, 2026. (Reuters)Ukrainian servicemen ride an unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) during their combat mission, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Druzhkivka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine July 9, 2026. (Reuters)Servicemen of the 49th Separate Assault Battalion Carpathian Sich of the Ukrainian Armed Forces use a drone detector as they hide inside a damaged store during their combat mission, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in the frontline town of Druzhkivka, in Donetsk region, Ukraine July 9, 2026. (Reuters)Maira Butt11 July 2026 01:00We asked Ukrainians what they think of Trump as US president touts a ‘very good relationship’US President Donald Trump lauded the “very good relationship” he has developed with his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, at the Nato summit in Turkey on July 8, 2026. In a meeting of the pair that lacked the acrimony of earlier encounters, Trump added that Ukraine has “such great people,” too. He has expressed different views privately in the past. But what do everyday Ukrainians think of Trump?For more than a decade, we have organised and conducted public opinion polls in Ukraine. While polling has become more difficult since Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022, our surveys have provided a window into Ukrainian public opinion in the territories not occupied by Russia. Maira Butt10 July 2026 23:59Kremlin says Putin remains open to Ukraine talks but is carving out a bigger buffer zoneThe Kremlin said on Friday that President Vladimir Putin remained open to achieving Russia’s objectives through diplomacy, but that Moscow was carving out a wider buffer zone in Ukraine in response to Kyiv’s escalatory actions. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was responding to a question about a Reuters article a day earlier in which three sources close to the Kremlin told Reuters that Ukraine’s recent drone strikes on Russia’s oil refineries and ports were strengthening Putin’s resolve to keep fighting for now. Peskov said Russia believed that Kyiv had no desire for talks at the moments and that Moscow was therefore continuing its military campaign in Ukraine. Maira Butt10 July 2026 23:00I have visited Russia every year since the Ukraine war began. The mood has changedThe hope is that an economic crisis in Russia leads to social unrest and political instability, possibly resulting in the collapse of the ruling regime. This would not be an unprecedented event in Russian history. The Soviet Union rapidly unravelled amid economic and political crisis in 1991. But how likely is this scenario for Russia today?Maira Butt10 July 2026 22:00Watch: Ukraine says it struck 12 ships in Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’Ukraine says it struck 12 ships in Russia’s ‘shadow fleet’