President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has announced that Ukraine is set to begin mass production of a new drone model positioned as an alternative to the widely used Chinese-made Mavic.

The attack by Russian missiles and drones targeted the capital, Kyiv, and the large cities of Dnipro and Kharkiv, as well as several smaller municipalities.

Slovakia will not agree to using frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine, Prime Minister Robert Fico said on Saturday.

A new documentary, "Second Wind," highlights Ukraine's wounded veterans, following four amputee soldiers and a female sniper, as they climb Mount Kilimanjaro.

Ukraine appears at increasing risk of losing the city of Pokrovsk, an important stronghold in eastern Ukraine where it has held off Russia for more than 18 months.

Pokrovsk sits along the eastern front line, part of what has been dubbed the “fortress belt” of Donetsk, a line of heavily fortified cities crucial to Ukraine’s defense of the region, including Kramatorsk, Sloviansk and Druzhkivka.

Ukraine's State Emergency Service reported energy infrastructure was struck in Odesa Oblast amid the ballistic missile attack. In a statement on social media, it said all of Ukraine could face outages for between six and 18 hours a day.

South African diplomats were working to rescue 17 South African men from Ukraine's Donbas region where they were engaged in "suspected mercenary activities."

Russia and Ukraine have traded almost daily assaults on each other’s energy infrastructure as U.S.-led diplomatic efforts to stop the nearly four-year war make no impact on the battlefield.

A Russian oil depot in Crimea was struck by Ukrainian drones, according to authorities in Kyiv, who released a video of the attacks.