The Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights said Russia had performed indiscriminate military attacks, summary executions of civilians, torture including the use of rape as a weapon of war, unjustified displacement and transfer of civilians and other violations.

Plaintiffs sit in the European Court of Human Rights before it issues a landmark set of rulings about alleged Russian violations in Ukraine since 2014, including the downing of Ma

Facing a numerically superior foe, Ukraine is under pressure to replenish its ranks on the battlefield where, after three years of war, recruitment is already a challenge.

Ukraine's capital Kyiv is again under a massive overnight Russian drone attack, local officials say, with at least eight people reported injured and fires burning across the city. Authorities in Kyiv say drone wreckage has hit the roof of a residential building in the central Shevchenkivskyi district.

Russia launched its largest drone attack on Ukraine in a single day since the war began more than three years ago, according to the Ukrainian Air Force on Wednesday.