WorldOfficials said Monday that Russia’s round-the-clock bombardment across Ukraine killed at least seven people and wounded more than 80. Among the targets hit in central Kyiv were a National Academy of Sciences building, apartment buildings, offices, gas stations and data centers, prompting people to flee the damaged academy building.
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WorldUkraine’s Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food, Taras Vysotskyi, describes the situation in the Black Sea as “critical” and warns that the country’s grain crisis could have far-reaching effects on global food prices, potentially costing $60 billion worldwide.
WorldUkraine is seeking urgent funding in Brussels while Russian drones pound Kyiv.
WorldA Russian drone strike set fire to the Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences building in Kyiv, leaving people trapped inside clinging to the exterior while they awaited rescue. NBC News’ Richard Engel reports.
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WorldTop stories include President Donald Trump’s expectation that U.S. and Iranian negotiators will hold more talks this week; Ukrainian officials’ report that Russian drone attacks across Ukraine killed at least seven people and injured more than 50; Chinese military air and sea drills around the disputed Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, known in China as Huangyan Island; and the arrest of five British citizens after suspected explosives were found near an air base used by the U.S. Trump praised the law-enforcement action.
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WorldUkraine is again facing sustained Russian attacks, with drone strikes reported in Dnipro, Sumi and Kyiv. Emergency and rescue workers are fighting each day to save people and bring fires under control after the deadly strikes.
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WorldUkrainians, including children forcibly relocated to Russia, gathered at a global summit in Toronto on Monday to recount their experiences. Russia is believed to have abducted thousands of children, placing them with Russian families and forcing them to reject Ukrainian culture and fight for Moscow. So far, 2,573 children have returned from deportation, forcible transfer and temporarily occupied areas.
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WorldUkrainian weapons producers say stringent export licence rules are eroding the country’s competitive advantage and preventing it from earning significant revenue through sales abroad. The report comes as Russian drones struck Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday.
WorldTwo men were rescued from a burning building in Kyiv after a Russian strike hit Ukraine’s Academy of Sciences building. One person was killed in the attack.
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WorldA Russian strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences killed at least one person. As rescue operations continued, a Euronews reporter at the scene saw air defences intercept another attempted attack high above the site.
WorldA Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv on Monday started a fire that forced people trapped inside to escape through windows and killed one person. Academy director Anatoly Zagorodny said the institution had no military connection, calling the attack terrorism and an assault on science.
WorldA Russian drone strike hit Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences building in central Kyiv around lunchtime, killing one person. The building is near the National Opera and Khreshchatyk, in the capital’s cultural heart. People inside described a powerful blast and questioned why an administrative site holding paperwork and archives, rather than laboratories, was targeted.
WorldEU defence ministers meet in Brussels to discuss aid for Ukraine and Russia’s sanctions-busting “shadow fleet” as Moscow intensifies missile and drone strikes. Donald Trump rejects Iran’s Hormuz offer, saying the US is “winning tremendously,” while Pope Leo XIV travels to Metz for his final day in France.
WorldRepeated Russian attacks are placing increasing strain on Ukraine’s air-defence systems and millions of civilians, Sasha Vakulina reports from Kyiv.
WorldAs aerial threats continue to breach Europe’s skies and Russia presses on with its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, European governments are urgently seeking responses. EU foreign affairs and defence ministers are due to consider their options in Brussels.
PoliticsEU defense ministers arrived in Brussels for a roundtable on Ukraine. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said member states had agreed to release $7.5 billion in EU funds linked to military aid for Ukraine.
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WorldEU ministers are meeting to discuss aid for Ukraine, while Donald Trump has rejected Iran’s proposed deal concerning the Strait of Hormuz.
WorldSouth Korea is demanding an apology from Ukraine for revealing the transfer of two captured North Korean soldiers. Seoul says President Volodymyr Zelenskyy breached a confidentiality agreement by disclosing it at the UN General Assembly, while Kyiv denies any such agreement existed. The soldiers, from a North Korean contingent sent to support Russia, sought asylum in South Korea because they feared execution if returned home.
WorldUkraine has warned that Russia may be preparing to mobilise hundreds of thousands of reservists. Moscow denies plans for a new mobilisation, after a mass call-up following the invasion of Ukraine sparked protests and prompted a large exodus from Russia.
WorldConcerns are growing in Poland, a close ally of neighbouring Ukraine, that the war could cross the border. The report comes from Suwałki, a city near Russia and Belarus in a region regarded by NATO countries as particularly sensitive.
WorldMoscow and Kyiv exchanged strikes again on Saturday, with Russian attacks across Ukraine killing at least four people. As both sides intensify their aerial campaigns, US President Donald Trump said he hoped Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin would reach a deal and “settle” their differences.
WorldRussia’s foreign minister has rejected Berlin’s call to abandon what Germany describes as a “dangerous” escalation. Tensions between Germany and Russia reached a flashpoint in early September after Berlin accused Moscow of being behind a drone attack at Leipzig/Halle airport earlier this year.
PoliticsGermany’s and Russia’s foreign ministers have met for the first time since before Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Johann Wadephul and Sergei Lavrov held brief talks on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York, amid sharply deteriorating ties and Germany’s recent accusation that Russia was behind an attempted drone attack on Leipzig/Halle airport.
WorldAt the UN General Assembly, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said “tectonic shifts” were creating a fairer multipolar world led by the Global South and East. He accused a “Western minority” of defending centuries-old privileges through force, sanctions and double standards, and defended Russia’s “special military operation” in Ukraine as protecting people in Donbas and Novorossiya.