Amid diplomatic niceties and discussions of Ukraine’s path to EU membership, one item dominated the agenda: the export of vast amounts of Irish alumina to Russia which, according to a recent Irish Times investigation, is ending up in the supply chain of Moscow’s military industry.

Ukraine is significantly expanding its long-range drone attacks on targets across Russia -- including the capital Moscow -- according to data published by the Russian Defense Ministry, as the Kremlin's four-year-old full-scale invasion of its neighbor grinds on with little apparent hope for a peace deal or for the Russian victory that President Vladimir Putin has framed as inevitable.

After Ukraine said it will make the Gripen the backbone of ⁠its ⁠air force, the Swedish fighter jet is finally set to be ⁠tested in the role it was designed for: confronting Russia. Ukraine has allocated €2.

The war has not been going the Kremlin’s way, with battleground losses and growing casualties. With fiercer strikes, Moscow hopes to gain a better position for negotiations.

Minimal gains on battlefield as Kyiv largely halts Moscow’s spring-summer offensive; Ukraine missile maker tests homegrown Patriot alternative. What we know on day 1,562

Russia's war in Ukraine will provide an unavoidable backdrop to the French Open women's semi-finals - and possibly the final.

Ukrainian drone units have carried out a series of successful attacks on the Russian-occupied Donetsk Airport, sabotaging Moscow's attempt to turn the facility into a military base, Ukraine's Unmanned Systems Forces (USF) reported on June 4.

Russia continues to attack civilian infrastructure in Dnipro and the region Russian forces struck Dnipro for the second day in a row. The latest attack hit a logistics company, causing a fire at the site.