Additionally, he said he'd issued a similar warning to Chinese President Xi Jinping, should the Chinese leader invade Taiwan, the book said.

A Russian drone barrage targeted the center of Kharkiv on Friday, injuring nine people and damaging a maternity hospital in Ukraine’s second-largest city, officials said.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he instructed Ukrainian leaders to "intensify all contacts with the American side" in a July 8 post on X.

One of Russia’s most powerful men, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, is set to visit North Korea this weekend, in a sign of deepening relations between Moscow and Pyongyang as North Korea gets pulled deeper into Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Lavrov's visit is the latest high-level meeting between the two countries amid a dramatic upgrading of their strategic cooperation that now includes a mutual defence pact.

The Russian authorities have reported that several Russian regions came under a large-scale drone attack, with explosions heard in Kursk Oblast, the city of Tula in Tula Oblast and Dubna near Moscow,

At least two people were killed overnight into Saturday as Russia continued to pound Ukraine with hundreds of drones as part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that has further dampened hopes for a brea...