US envoys Kushner and Witkoff arrive in Kyiv to hold talks on ending war

Arrival marks the pair’s first visit to Ukraine and comes day after ‘substantive plans’ were discussed in Moscow

Ukraine seeks to seize water company owned by billionaire family of British theatre mogul

Row centres on stake held by Patarkatsishvili family in bottled water firm it jointly owns with Russian oligarch

UK commits £100m to bolster Ukraine’s air defences over winter

Package of military equipment includes Patriot missiles, supplies of which have dwindled amid Russian attacks

Ukraine’s prosecutor general quits after anti-corruption agents raid his office

Ruslan Kravchenko resigns over allegations some of his officials were engaged in large-scale money laundering

Orthodox church sends medieval prince’s remains to Russian troops in Ukraine

Part of Dmitry Donskoy’s right hand sent to ‘spiritually strengthen’ soldiers

Canada offers air defense support for Ukraine as Zelenskyy visits

Canadian PM Mark Carney hosts president in Calgary, where he grew up alongside large Ukrainian community

Putin arrives in India for Brics summit set to be dominated by Iran and Ukraine wars

Russian president is due to meet his Iranian counterpart during visit, while Chinese leader Xi Jinping also set to attend summit

Russia targets Kyiv petrol stations for first time with jet-powered drones

Three facilities in two days struck as bombardment of Ukraine’s capital enters new phase of intensity

Russian drone hits Kyiv-Warsaw passenger train near Polish border

No casualties reported as Ukraine’s foreign minister says ‘Putin’s terror knocking directly on doors of EU and Nato’

‘We are not scared,’ says top EU diplomat after Russian strike on passenger train

Kaja Kallas calls drone attack that narrowly missed Boris Johnson and David Petraeus ‘a message to the western world’

UK armed forces member killed in crash in Ukraine

Ministry of Defence says person died in road incident understood not to be result of hostile action

US lawmakers spar over bill giving Trump more power to sanction Russia

Proponents say sanctions would help Ukraine, but some Democrats say Trump shouldn’t have more tariff authority

Russia plotting to kill targets in US and Europe, federal officials say

Intelligence services allegedly attempted to pay people to surveil and kill people perceived to be aligned with Ukraine

Burnham and Trump expected to meet for first time next week as PM steps up presence on world stage

Andy Burnham will attend UN general assembly where he is expected to try to drum up more support for Ukraine

US wheat farmers navigate uncertainty amid drought and geopolitical chaos

Some experts worry factors affecting wheat exports could push global food prices even higher than they are now

Poorest countries hit hardest by UK aid cuts under Keir Starmer government, new figures reveal

Aid to lower-income countries fell by almost 7%, while higher-income countries saw their share of Britain’s aid budget increase

Latvia’s president warns that Europe is not up to date with drone and aerial warfare in Ukraine

Edgars Rinkēvičs reveals that drone warfare in Ukraine is moving at ‘lightning speed’ and current efforts to prepare for an aerial war could be obsolete by next year

Trump signs bill imposing sanctions on Russia and giving him more power to levy tariffs

Lindsey O Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act signed into law tow days after House passed it in bipartisan vote

Hundreds of drones target Moscow on last day of voting in Russia’s parliamentary election

Authorities accuse Ukraine of trying to disrupt poll and say 1,600 drones in total intercepted, while at least two people killed and oil refinery damaged

Baltic spy chiefs warn Moscow is preparing for more decisive action in Europe

Exclusive: intelligence officers warn campaign against Nato could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but panic will play into Kremlin psy-ops