Minister: Russia strikes 3 residential buildings, kills 10 people on Nov. 23

"We need a person (as an ambassador to the U.S.) to be strong and to be in the context of the most important thing, in the context of strengthening Ukraine — through weapons, first of all. Therefore, one of my ideas is that it can be Ukraine's defense minister," President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ombudsman Dmytro Lubinets mistakenly presented a June 30 report by a little-known group as an internal U.N. analysis on the 2022 Olenivka prison explosion, which killed over 50 Ukrainian POWs, Slidstvo.Info reported on July 10, citing a response from Lubinets’s office.

"I wouldn't characterize it as something that guarantees peace, but it’s a concept that, you know, that I'll take back to the president (Donald Trump)," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said without giving further details.

The Kyiv Independent staff documented what it feels like to live and sleep in Kyiv, Ukraine, as Russia intensifies its drone and missile attacks on the city. Filmed over several weeks in June and July, our journalists take shelter in bathrooms, basements, and parking garages as explosions ring out overhead.

DTEK, Ukraine's biggest private energy company, has begun final commissioning of the country's largest battery energy storage project, , developed in partnership with Fluence Energy Inc., DTEK announced on July 10 at the Ukraine Recovery Conference (URC) in Rome.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov met in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, during the ASEAN Summit.

At least two were killed and 25 injured in a Russian attack on Kyiv overnight on July 10. The assault comes a day after Russia launched its largest-ever drone and missile strike against Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war.

The U.K has committed to producing missiles for Thales air defense systems in support of Ukraine over the next 19 years.

"The Americans need some of them (Patriot air defense systems) themselves, but they also have a lot of them," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

The Economist estimates roughly 31,000 Russian soldiers were killed in the offensive so far, in comparison to some 190,000-350,000 deaths and up to 1.3 million overall Russian casualties of the entire full-scale war.

Moscow's forces launched yet another mass aerial attack, deploying 18 missiles and about 400 drones, including 200 Shahed-type kamikaze models, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.