Two people died in unrelated drowning incidents on the Russian River on Sunday, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office said.

European Union envoys are on the verge of agreeing an 18th package of sanctions against Russia for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine that would include a lower price cap on Russian oil, four EU sources said after a Sunday meeting.

Three Ukrainians were killed in the southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, where Russia captured a first village this week after a months-long incursion. In the neighboring Zaporizhzhia region — the site of a nuclear plant — two civilians were killed in the attacks, Gov. Ivan Fedorov said.

Russia pounded Ukraine with hundreds of drones and missiles overnight and Saturday as part of a stepped-up bombing campaign that killed at least six people and wounded dozens, officials said.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un restated he “unconditionally” supports all Russian actions as it wages war in Ukraine, as he welcomed Moscow’s top diplomat to a newly built beach resort on his country’s east coast.

North Korea is now supplying as much as 40% of Russia’s ammunition for the war in Ukraine as the partnership between Pyongyang and Moscow deepens, according to the head of Ukrainian military intelligence.

THE UK has become the “number 1 target for Russian cyberattacks” as Vladimir Putin seeks revenge on Ukraine-backing enemies. Millions of Brits could be plunged into darkness as the mad

A Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv on Friday damaged a maternity hospital, authorities said, terrifying patients as windows shattered and shards of glass fell on to the beds, leaving families rushing to shelter their babies.