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Ned Davies, Joshua Cheetham & Matt Murphy BBC Verify BBC A Russian warship disguised itself using a fake ID signal while travelling through the English Channel with two sanctioned oil tankers, a BBC Verify investigation has found. The Boikiy – a corvette armed with guided missiles – broadcast the fake ID code as it passed...

At least four people have been killed in an overnight Russian missile and drone attack on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv, the interior minister says. In a post on social media, Ihor Klymenko says residential areas, hospitals and sports infrastructure were hit. “An entire section of a residential high-rise building was destroyed” in the worst-hit Shevchenkivskyi district,...

Joel Gunter Reporting from Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine BBC Dmitriy Kurashov is the first Russian soldier to stand trial in Ukraine for an alleged battlefield execution On the frozen frontline in the east of Zaporizhzhia, a Ukrainian soldier surveyed the fallout from a Russian assault. It was the middle of January 2024 and the ground was covered...

Large-scale Russian drone attacks on Ukrainian cities are on the rise. Monday night’s bombardment, while not record breaking, was typical of the new norm. For several hours after midnight, drones buzzed incessantly over Kyiv. It seemed they were coming from almost every direction, as searchlights raked the sky and skeins of orange tracer fire rose...

Paul Brown and Thomas Spencer BBC Verify BBC New satellite images and drone footage show serious damage inflicted on aircraft at several Russian airbases during Ukraine’s surprise drone strike on Sunday. The images of two Russian airbases in north-western and central Russia, taken on Wednesday morning, show 12 aircraft damaged or destroyed. Meanwhile, drone footage,...

Laura Gozzi & BBC Verify BBC News Ukraine Presidential Press Service/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks with Head of the Security Service (SSU) Vasyl Maliuk after the operation against Russian airbases It was an attack of astonishing ingenuity – unprecedented, broad, and 18 months in the making. On 1 June more than 100 Ukrainian drones...