In Romania, which borders Ukraine to the country's southwest, the Defense Ministry in Bucharest said that two Romanian F-16 fighter jets were scrambled on Tuesday night "to respond to an aerial target maneuvering in the northeast of the locality of Valkove, on Ukrainian territory, near the border with Romania."

Russia has coerced thousands of Ukrainian prisoners to denounce their leaders and country in propaganda videos. The consequences can follow them home.

Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman both have close ties to President Putin, and Kyiv said the move sent Moscow the wrong signals.

Ukrainian forces struck Russian drone ground control stations, a UAV warehouse belonging to the advanced Russian Rubicon unit and several logistics facilities in Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts on 22-23

Across the wider Moscow region, the attack killed two people and wounded 20, local Gov. Andrei Vorobyov said. The dead were a 74-year-old man and a 44-year-old woman, he said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged major buyers of Russian energy, including India, China and Turkey, to halt oil trade with Moscow, arguing that such purchases are helping sustain Russia's war economy.

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