President Donald Trump has said it was a mistake to throw Russia out of what was formerly the G8 in comments that are likely to infuriate Ukraine and other western allies. Speaking to reporters at the G7 conference in Canada,

Ukraine hits out at Kremlin claims after yet another drone strike on Kyiv Russia to demand Ukraine destroy Western weapons to end war, senior Kremlin official says Russian forces have intensified offensive operations across multiple front-line areas,

Ukraine received another 1,245 bodies of its soldiers killed in the war with Russia on Monday in the final stage of the repatriation of remains agreed at talks in Istanbul, Ukrainian officials said.

It is the final stage of a deal to repatriate more than 6,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Austria on Monday in his first trip to the European Union member country since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Austria is famously neutral — a stance it declared in 1955 after World War II — and Vienna has come under heavy criticism since the start of the Russia-Ukraine war for maintaining ties with Moscow.

A Russian drone and missile attack through the night and early morning on Tuesday wounded at least 20 people in Kyiv, Ukrainian officials. It was the latest intense drone and missile attack to target Kyiv recently.