Moscow's latest overnight barrage came amid temperatures as low as -14 F.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin and Zelensky to exchange 314 prisoners as US envoy claims peace talks ‘productive’ - Moscow pressures Zelensky to give in over Donetsk as talks continue in Abu Dhabi

The civilian death toll has been edging upward as the war grinds on. The United Nations' Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine said in January that 2025 was the deadliest for civilians in Ukraine since 2022. "A massive increase in the use of long-range weapons by the Russian armed forces" helped drive the trend, the mission said.

U.S., Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are back around a table for a second round of technical talks, but in Kyiv, Russian bombs bring suffering and skepticism.

Russia has been pounding Ukraine's energy system since the start of the war, in what Kyiv says is an attempt to sap morale and weaken Ukrainians' resistance. View on euronews

General Keith Kellogg said the Kremlin's attempts to break the will of the Ukrainians is not going to work.

The rumor appeared to stem from a mistranslation of an interview on French news television.