A major explosive factory deep inside Russia which supplies Vladimir Putin ’s army was attacked, says Ukraine. The plant is in the Tambov region hundreds of miles from the border with Ukraine. “The enterprise is one of the main suppliers of explosive materials for the army of the Russian Federation,

Russia has intensified its attacks on Ukraine. Intense fighting is taking place on eight sections of the front. The Kremlin is focusing on the Donetsk and Kursk regions. The RBK-Ukraine portal reports on preparations for a key battle in the coming months.

President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Treasury Secretary, Scott Bessent, said he "100%" supports raising sanctions on Russian oil producers if the future president requests doing so.

Russia’s nearly three-year invasion of Ukraine has become a “war of attrition” and a “stalemate” that must be ended, Senator Marco Rubio, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to be secretary of state,

Marco Rubio, a candidate for the US Secretary of State position under Donald Trump, stated that to end the war in Ukraine, concessions would need to be made. This would apply to both countries, CNN reports.

The Russian missiles sought out targets from the Lviv region in western Ukraine near Poland to Kharkiv in northeast Ukraine bordering Russia. The state energy company Ukrenergo reported emergency power outages in six regions. It often shuts down production during attacks as a precaution.

Russia's military on Tuesday said it would retaliate against Ukraine after Kyiv attacked Russian regions by firing six U.S.-made ATACMS ballistic missiles, six UK-made Storm Shadow cruise missiles and launching one of the biggest drone attacks to date.

Russia launched dozens of missiles and drones at the Ukrainian energy sector, Kyiv said Wednesday, ramping up a months-long bombing campaign at a precarious moment of the war for Ukraine.The barrage came just one day after Kyiv said it had carried out its largest aerial attack of the war on Russian army factories and energy hubs hundreds of kilometres from the front line.

Sen. Marco Rubio used his confirmation hearing Wednesday to warn a Senate panel that China might move against Taiwan before the decade is over and that a potential ceasefire agreement between Russia and Ukraine must provide the Ukrainians with sufficient leverage to deter a repeat invasion in the future.