Fire extinguished at Russian oil refinery after drone attack

A drone attack set ablaze product storage facilities at one of the largest oil refineries in southern Russia, but emergency services extinguished the fire just over two hours later, and the plant was working normally, TASS news agency reported.

Air strike in Kiev on Thursday morning. No casualties recorded

The Kyiv city state administration released a summary of Thursday morning's attacks on Telegram, saying there were no casualties or "destruction of infrastructure or residential facilities," according to The Guardian.

21 dead in Russian strikes on Kherson

A "massive" Russian strike killed 21 people and wounded 48 others in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson on Wednesday, including a train station and a supermarket, according to a new report, Euronews reports.

Volodymyr Zelenskiy will give a speech today in The Hague

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is expected to speak in The Hague today, the Dutch government announced, reports Hotnews.ro.

Serbian government decrees three days of national mourning after the armed attack on a school in Belgrade

Eight children and a security guard were killed by a student who opened fire on Wednesday morning in an elementary school in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. Six other children and a teacher were injured. The police arrested the suspect - a 14-year-old student who used his father's gun, BBC reports.

Moscow accuses Ukraine of trying to attack the Kremlin with drones. Kiev denies the accusations: Drones can be bought at any arms store

The Russians accuse Ukraine of trying to attack the Kremlin with drones, but that the attack was successfully repelled, reads a statement from the Kremlin press service, BBC reports.

Belarusian dissident Roman Protasevich sentenced to eight years

A Belarusian opposition activist arrested after his Ryanair flight was forced to land in Minsk has been sentenced to eight years in prison, BBC reports.

Zelensky travels to Finland to meet with Nordic Leaders

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine arrived in Finland on Wednesday to meet with Nordic leaders, a rare overseas trip for the Ukrainian leader amid the Russian invasion, The New York Times reports.

EU plans to boost ammunition production to aid Ukraine

The EU will put forward a plan to boost its production capacity of artillery shells to one million a year, officials said Tuesday, as it scrambles to arm Ukraine and refill its own stocks, AFP reports.

Volodymyr Zelensky: May and the following months will be very active for Ukraine internationally

President Volodymyr Zelensky told Ukrainians on Tuesday evening that May and the following months will be very active for Ukraine on the international stage, involving negotiations and other international events that will strengthen the country's defense. Very likely, he has in mind the upcoming NATO summit in Vilnius, where Kiev wants to obtain firm security guarantees and an accession date, during which Ukraine hopes to recover its occupied territories thanks to an imminent counteroffensive, reports Hotnews.ro.

Regulation of the Armenian-Azerbaijani crisis under discussion in Washington

Armenia and Azerbaijan began US-mediated peace talks in Washington on Monday over the Nagorno-Karabakh enclave, AFP reports. The talks, hosted by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, will last until Thursday and are being held in the presence of the two countries' foreign ministers.

U.S. estimates 20,000 Russian servicemen have been killed in Ukraine since December to date

US intelligence estimates that 20,000 Russian fighters have been killed in Ukraine since December and another 80,000 have been wounded in fighting, White House National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told a news conference Monday night.