Kyiv and Moscow have stepped up aerial strikes over recent months and US-led ceasefire talks aimed at pausing the over three-year war have stalled.

NATO jets were scrambled today in response to what has been Russia's most severe bombardment of Western Ukraine to date. An estimated 20 to 30 missiles and around 700 drones were launched overnight, resulting in the fatalities of two civilians and injuries to 18 more in Chernivtsi,

As scattered details of the apparent suicide of Russia’s former transport minister Roman Starovoit trickled in via state media on Monday, one stood out. Near his body, the Kommersant newspaper reported,

Russia launched a new barrage of drones and missiles in an overnight attack on Ukraine on Saturday (July 12), targeting the west of the country and killing at least two people in the city of Chernivtsi on the border with Romania.

Russian President Vladimir Putin’s forces launched a massive aerial assault on Ukraine early Thursday for the second time in two days.

There is too little data to generate a comparable live estimate for Ukraine. However, a catalogue of the known dead and missing from UAL osses, a website, implies that between 73,000 and 140,000 Ukrainian soldiers have died since the invasion began.