Russian strikes killed at least 12 people in Ukraine overnight into Sunday, casting a shadow over a major prisoner swap between Kyiv and Moscow meant

Russian strikes killed at least nine people in Ukraine overnight to Sunday, officials said, as Kyiv and Moscow traded fire amid an ongoing major prisoner swap.

British troops joined Swedish forces for joint drills with Finland, not far from the alliance's northern border with Russia.

A Kremlin spokesman says Russia and Ukraine have no scheduled direct peace talks. The statement Thursday came nearly a week after their first face-to-face meeting since the early weeks of Moscow's invasion in 2022 and days after U.

President Trump once vowed to broker peace between Russia and Ukraine in 24 hours. Now he says the two sides should work it out themselves.

Fragments from a Russian drone triggered a fire and caused damage to an apartment building in the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early on Sunday, a senior Ukrainian official said.

Kovalenko noted that ammonium nitrate produced at the plant can be used as a component in explosives, while methanol serves as a base for fuels, including rocket propellant. Argon, also manufactured at the facility,