Russia fired missiles at energy infrastructure in the northeast Ukrainian city of Sumy on Tuesday hours after an overnight drone strike on the region, reducing power in some areas and forcing authorities to use back-up power systems.

Ukraine claims to have shot down 34 out of the 51 drones launched by Russia, while Russia says it destroyed 16 Ukrainian drones in the border regions of Bryansk and Kursk. Another day of the war in Ukraine,

Ukraine's air defence forces have destroyed 34 of 51 Russian drones launched on the night of 16-17. Twelve drones have disappeared from radar and two returned to Russia. Source: Ukraine's Air Force Details: Air surveillance troops of the Air Force detected and tracked 51 strike drones from Russia's Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk as well as Cape Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea from 19:00 to 06:00.

Around 420 miles further east, one person was killed by Russian shelling in Pokrovsk as troops inched closer to the logistics hub. Kyiv’s troops claimed they repelled 36 Russian

The drones were launched from Kursk and Primorsko-Akhtarsk in Russia, as well as from Cape Chauda in temporarily occupied Crimea. Read also: Russia unleashes 640 Shahed drones on Ukraine in just two weeks — Zelenskyy Twelve drones lost radar contact in several Ukraine's oblasts,

The erratic life of a struggling roofing contractor suspected of trying to shoot Donald Trump swerved from bounced checks to a gun felony conviction and a quixotic plan to help Ukraine fight Russia's invasion,

Russia quickly sought to weaponize the suspect's support for Ukraine, an unwelcome development for Kyiv as both U.S. support and the fight on the battlefield appear to hang in the balance.

A man whom Ryan Routh helped to join Ukraine’s battle against Russia has offered a possible motive for the alleged assassination attempt.