Russia is finding it “significantly” harder to conduct combat operations against Ukraine because of a rise in Ukrainian long-range drone strikes on Russian weapons supplies, ammunition depots and fuel refineries, a senior commander has said.

The Pope has had two episodes of “acute respiratory failure”, the Vatican has said.

A “coalition of the willing” could provide boots on the ground in Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire. 

At least two people have died after a car was driven into a group of pedestrians in the western German city of Mannheim – with a large police operation under way.

Donald Trump has hit out at the Ukrainian president once again, just four days after an explosive on-camera spat between the pair.

Two suspects arrested amid a murder probe into the death of a Scottish businessman in Kenya can be held for 21 days for further police investigations, a court has ruled.