An Ukrainian Security Service officer was shot dead in Kyiv on Thursday morning in what authorities told CNN was an apparent assassination.

Secretary Rubio expressed “disappointment and frustration” with the lack of progress in Ukraine peace talks after meeting with his Russian counterpart, Lavrov.

We’ve been verifying video being posted online from Ukraine following an overnight Russian attack involving around 400 drones and 18 missiles, according to the country’s President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukraine’s worst hit area was Kyiv, he said, where two people were killed. He reported five other regions were hit.

Other Kyiv residents expressed resignation over the steady rhythm of attacks that has increased since diplomatic efforts to end the war, now in its fourth year, stalled. Many said they were grateful to the country's soldiers for making it possible for life and work to continue in Kyiv.

Ukraine has received all necessary political signals for U.S. military aid to resume, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday after what he described as constructive talks with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Drone and missile strikes on Kyiv killed at least two people and injured 24 after Russia launched a sustained airborne assault on the Ukrainian capital for the second night in a row.

The Vatican's embassy in Kyiv was slightly damaged during Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital early on Thursday morning, the embassy said in a statement. "During yet another attack on the city of Kyiv

By Frank Jack Daniel and Angelo Amante KYIV/ROME (Reuters) -Russia unleashed heavy airstrikes on Ukraine on Thursday before a conference in Rome at which Kyiv won billions of dollars in aid pledges, and U.