Russia, using missiles and drones, launched one of the biggest assaults on the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, since the beginning of the war more than three years ago and hours after a prisoner exchange began.

After Russia pounded Kyiv and other regions in the biggest aerial assault since 2022, Ukraine has once again turned to United States' help in the conflict. Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's advisor Mikhail Podoliak said that Kyiv cannot afford losing Washington's military help in its conflict with Moscow.

In the village of Markhalivka, Kyiv region, 22 private homes were damaged or destroyed as a result of a Russian missile and drone attack overnight on May 25. — Ukrinform.

Moscow’s battlefield edge is waning, experts say. But President Donald Trump seems disinclined to ramp up pressure on the Kremlin to end the war in Ukraine.

An air raid alert in Kyiv lasted for more than seven hours overnight, with warnings of incoming Russian missiles and drones.