The Ukrainian army intensified attacks inside Russia this Friday, far from its borders, and Vladimir Putin responded with a missile bombing against Kyiv in broad daylight. Today's is one of the deadliest days in recent times, with a provisional death toll of eleven in Ukraine and six in Russia. The attack on the Ukrainian capital caused at least six deaths and dozens of injuries, according to President Volodymyr Zelensky, who also lamented five more deaths in Sloviansk, eastern Ukraine. In Russian territory, six people died and 26 more were injured in a Ukrainian bombing at a factory in the Kirov region, about 900 kilometers northeast of Moscow.

Kyiv launched an offensive this morning with more than 400 drones against several Russian regions, with a toll of five dead, about twenty injured, and several fires in residential and industrial facilities. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky justified the operation as a direct action "in response to Russian attacks against civilian infrastructure and against Ukrainian cities and communities".

The dismissal of the Ukrainian Minister of Defense, Mykhailo Fedorov, has generated a wave of protests and indignation in the streets. In cities like Kyiv and Kharkiv, protesters carried banners with strong slogans: "Shame", "Don't destroy what works", or "Power belongs to the people". These demonstrations, reminiscent of those in 2025 when President Zelensky tried to enact a controversial law that threatened the independence of anti-corruption bodies, demonstrate the institutional instability the country is going through, which began this week with the government's restructuring and the fall of Prime Minister Yulia Sviridenko. Fedorov is a popular politician who has the backing of Ukraine's military advances in recent months, which are supported, for example, by the effort of technological modernization with the use of drones.

Russia does not loosen its pressure on Ukraine. This Monday in the early morning, Moscow has once again bombed Kyiv, just four days after the last fatal attack on the Ukrainian capital. At least 14 people have died in Kyiv and six more have lost their lives in the neighboring town of Vyshneve, where 500 people have been evacuated due to the risk of new explosions following attacks on fuel depots. In addition, according to the balance of the Ukrainian authorities, 87 people have been injured.

On Wednesday night into Thursday, Russia again attacked Kyiv and other cities in Ukraine with dozens of cruise missiles and drones, just hours after President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that Moscow was preparing a new large-scale attack. At least 25 people have died and around a hundred more have been injured, including two children, according to the head of the military administration of the city of Kyiv, Timur Tkachenko, and the mayor, Vitali Klitschko. Search and rescue operations in collapsed buildings will continue through the night, and authorities have warned that the death toll is likely to rise.

Ukrainian oligarch Vadim Iermolaiev and his wife are the victims of the bomb package attack on Monday evening in Monaco, according to French broadcaster BFMTV. The couple is in critical condition and their 13-year-old daughter suffered minor injuries and is stable. The unprecedented attack has shaken the principality. According to the Monegasque government, which has not yet confirmed the identity of the victims, the explosion was caused by a package bomb on a street bordering France, around 9:00 PM. The public prosecutor of Monaco, Stéphane Thibault, reported that an individual was seen leaving a bag or package in the building's lobby and then fled the scene towards the French town of Beausoleil, according to surveillance cameras in the area. However, authorities have ruled out a terrorist motive for the expl for now. The police have not located the perpetrator. The Minister of State of Monaco, Christophe Mirmand, has highlighted that it is an unprecedented attack in the country: “This is the first time in history, as far as I know, that such an act has taken place in the principality”. For his part, Prince Albert II has described the incident as a "heinous crime" and "a shock to the entire Monegasque community". Vadim Iermolaiev, ranked among the 100 richest Ukrainians in Ukraine according to the Forbes list, was born in the city of Dnipro, in southeastern Ukraine. There, he founded and led the commercial and industrial corporation Alef Group, becoming one of the most influential real estate developers and entrepreneurs in the region. In 2019, the tycoon renounced his Ukrainian citizenship to become a citizen of Cyprus. In an interview with Forbes, the businessman justified this decision for reasons of “international protection”, arguing that the Ukrainian judicial system is "not ideal" and that the tax system is "not objective". Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the businessman resides in Monaco, according to the Ukrainian media Ukrainska Pravda. Iermolaiev, who has not publicly defended pro-Russian views, has been affected by sanctions from the Ukrainian government since 2023 for maintaining commercial activities with Russian entities operating in the Kremlin-occupied Crimea. Specifically, for his alcohol sales business, which paid taxes to the Russian state, according to information from the Ukrainian secret services. The government of Volodymyr Zelensky subjected him to asset freeze and demanded that he cease any financial operations in Ukraine for 10 years.

Vladimir Putin has been annoyed that in recent weeks a narrative has emerged according to which Ukraine is on the verge of turning the tide of the war. “Europeans have the categorically incorrect impression that the situation on the battlefield is changing in favor of the Ukrainian forces,” they say from the Kremlin. The reason is the partially successful effort by Kyiv's troops to stifle Russian logistics on the southeastern front, which opens a window of opportunity for Volodymyr Zelensky. However, in the east, in Donbas, Russia continues to advance and will soon conquer Kostiantynivka, one of the last major towns in the region. The problem is that it is advancing so slowly that pressure is growing from the warmongering sectors for the Russian president to decree a new mobilization, a hugely unpopular measure that could prove entirely ineffective.

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The impact of a drone against the Kapotnya refinery, about 15 kilometers south of central Moscow, caused an explosion this Thursday that blew the roof off the plant. The striking moment, captured on video by dozens of residents, testifies to Ukraine's most massive attack on the Russian capital since the war began. In total, 555 aircraft flew towards Russian territory, of which 194 headed for the city. The bombing caused 17 injuries and once again highlighted the vulnerabilities of Russian air defenses and further aggravated the fuel crisis the country is going through.

Donald Trump appeared triumphantly on the stage of the G-7 summit in the French city of Évian. In the closing press conference, he stated that, with the memorandum of understanding agreed with Iran, the United States had achieved "everything they had set out to do and much more." As usual, he boasted that the U.S. military is the most powerful in the world and assured that they could have continued bombing Iran for weeks or even years, but that he stopped it to avoid "an economic catastrophe." Hours later, he signed the agreement in a solemn place: the Palace of Versailles. In front of the host, Emmanuel Macron, and some cameras, Trump stamped his signature on the document on the table of the state banquet that the French president had offered in his honor. In theory, the agreement was to be signed this Friday in Switzerland, but at this time it is unknown if Trump will do it, if his vice president Vance will go, and if Iran will send someone of importance. What is certain, however, is that Trump has already signed it.

Russia launched one of the most massive aerial attacks in recent months against Ukraine early Monday. Among the affected targets is the Dormition Cathedral of the Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, one of the great spiritual and cultural emblems of Ukraine and Orthodox Christianity, founded in the 11th century, which is a UNESCO World Heritage site. The attack caused a spectacular fire.

The Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelensky, denounced this Sunday a new Russian attack around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant, with a drone hitting a nuclear waste storage facility. Analyses by Energoatom, the state nuclear operator, indicate, however, that there has been no radioactive leak. Ukrainian emergency teams have extinguished the fire caused by the drone strike. There were no injuries.

A ceasefire is a pause in the war, a moment when the bombs fall silent, either to give a respite to exhausted civilians and soldiers or, in the best of cases, to open an opportunity for diplomacy. But in recent months, in the mouths of Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin or Benjamin Netanyahu, this concept has been completely emptied of content to become merely a smokescreen behind which the war continues.

Volodymyr Zelensky had warned for days of an imminent large-scale bombing of Ukraine, and it has finally arrived. At least 22 people have died and more than a hundred have been injured in a night attack on some of the country's main cities, especially the capital, Kyiv, and Dnipro in the east. Russia launched 73 missiles, in one of the most intense attacks of the last year in a single night, in addition to 656 drones. Vladimir Putin had promised that he would respond forcefully and systematically to the massacre of 21 young people in a university college in Luhansk, in occupied Donbas, two weeks ago.

Romanian authorities have no doubt that the drone that crashed early this morning against a residential building in the city of Galati, near the border with Ukraine, and lightly injured two people was Russian. Never before had an unmanned vehicle caused victims in the territory of a European Union and NATO member country. However, despite the evidence presented by the Romanian government, which has described the incident as the most serious since the start of the war, Vladimir Putin is playing dumb and questions whether his army launched the aircraft.

From attrition to exhaustion. The conflict in Ukraine has entered a phase of military and diplomatic stalemate that has pushed both armies towards long-range attacks. While the lines move drop by drop, more and better drones and missiles fly into the depths of the enemy country. The result of this escalation is a death toll among the non-combatant population that is on track to break all records this year.Officially, neither army is bombing civilian targets. Ukraine has been successfully hitting Russian industries, refineries, and ports for months,

After weeks in which Russia has attacked Ukraine with force and announced it will bomb command centers of the Ukrainian state in Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelensky sent a letter this Wednesday to Donald Trump requesting to address the shortage of air defense missiles that Kyiv claims to be suffering from. This was reported by the media The Kyiv Independent and later confirmed by Zelensky's communication advisor, Dmytro Lytvyn. In a text also addressed to the United States Congress, the Ukrainian president states that the current rate of missile delivery "is not enough" to intercept Russian attacks.

A single ambiguous phrase from Vladimir Putin was enough for everyone to venture into predicting the proximity of a peace agreement in Ukraine. The Russian president implied that the war “is approaching its end”, opened the door to meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky in a third country, and proposed former German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder as a possible European interlocutor with Russia. But, in reality, the Kremlin has not moved for a long time: its leader is convinced that Kyiv's defeat is a matter of months, he has no intention of meeting with the Ukrainian president unless it is to sign the end of the conflict, and any negotiation with the European Union will have to be done on his terms.If Donald Trump is difficult to decipher because he constantly contradicts himself, the exegeses of Putin's statements tend to overinterpret. During the surprise press conference that the Russian president convened on Victory Day evening, he took advantage of a criticism of Western support for Ukraine to say: “They began to stoke confrontation with Russia, which continues to this day. I believe the matter is approaching its end, but nevertheless, it is a serious matter.” 

Ukraine's anti-corruption authorities have informed Andriy Yermak, Volodymyr Zelensky's former chief of staff, that he is being investigated as a suspect in connection with a corruption scandal that has affected several government members and people close to the president. Yermak, who was Zelensky's right-hand man, resigned last November after the National Anti-Corruption Bureau of Ukraine (NABU) and the Specialized Anti-Corruption Prosecutor's Office (SAP) searched his office. These two agencies reported on Monday evening via Telegram that they have uncovered a group of individuals involved in a case related to "a luxury real estate project near Kyiv" valued at 460 million hryvnias (about 8.9 million euros). "One of the participants, the former chief of staff to the President of Ukraine, has been notified of the suspicion," they stated.

This year's Victory Day military parade will be remembered for two circumstances. The first, Vladimir Putin's fear, which led him to turn his showcase of military power into a minimal and unprecedented spectacle: without tanks or missiles, practically without foreign guests and without Western media. The second, Volodymyr Zelenskyy's mockery, who, urged at the last minute by Donald Trump, desisted from threatening Red Square with his drones and signed a sarcastic decree to “allow” the Russian celebration this Saturday.