Ukraine has ratcheted up its attacks on Russia's Amazon-style retail giant Wildberries, signaling a new phase in the war.

Russia is accused of using fake job offers, tourist visas and lucrative military contracts to recruit thousands of foreign nationals for the Ukraine war. Investigations reveal how poverty, deception and coercion have drawn people from Asia,

Russia’s attacks on civilian cargo ships bound for Ukrainian ports in the Black Sea are strangling Kyiv’s vital export corridor, with no vessels entering any of the three Ukrainian ports in the Odesa region on Wednesday for the first time since the corridor was established in 2023.

The meeting was held on the sidelines of an annual gathering by foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Manila.

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in the Philippines. Rubio was expected to renew the prospect of the U.S. trying to broker an end to

European Union members are looking to keep up pressure on Russia as Ukraine's outlook improves, even as some countries seek exemptions.

Russia has recruited fighters from more than 130 countries as it continues its war in Ukraine. Some recruits were promised jobs and citizenship, only to end up on the battlefield.

Ukraine has made significant progress in the war this year, and a rift between the country's outgoing army chief and its defense minister threatened to derail its efforts.

Ukraine has hit warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia's answer to Amazon, for the third time in a week, extending a long-range campaign that now reaches a thousand kilometers inside Russia. Kyiv says the sites feed the Russian military's supply chain;