Month: July 2026

A devastating wave of overnight attacks has left parts of the Ukrainian capital in ruins. Kyiv officials report multiple casualties following an attack which stuck residential areas. Russia said it would be ramping up the “pressure” on Ukraine after launching its largest ever attack on Kyiv overnight. The overnight strikes caught families while they slept, […]

While France, Italy, the UK and the rest of western Europe reeled under a heatwave last week, central and eastern Europe sweltered too. The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and the Balkans hit record temperatures. Ukraine imposed power outages as its grid buckled under demand. Romania got slammed by a violent storm after its own heatwave. […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged that the country was suffering from “a certain shortage” of fuel after repeated Ukrainian strikes in their four-year war. Moscow is now looking to increase anti-air defence capacity and ensure fuel supplies – which could even imply importing fuel. FRANCE 24’s Rochelle Ferguson-Bouyahi tells us more about the shortages, and […]