While much of the city bears the scars of five years of war, below the ground at Kharkiv Lyceum No. 24, everything is new and ready to accommodate 1,000 children.

Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken.

Russia says it will shutter German cultural centers across the country. Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced the move Thursday at the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok.

President Sandu's national security advisor, Stanislav Secrieru, says Russia's strikes on Ukrainian-Moldovan border infrastructure aim to sever vital grain export corridors to European markets.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he will keep any conversation with Vladimir Putin short if he comes face-to-face with the Russian president at the G20 summit later this year.

Russian drones tore into central ⁠Kyiv ⁠on Wednesday morning, wounding 11 people and damaging ⁠residential and university buildings on the seventh day of nearly round-the-clock attacks that have upended daily life ​in Ukraine's capital.

Indian PM Narendra Modi has urged Russia to end the Ukraine war and to cease hostilities.

Separately, one person killed and five injured after Ukrainian drone struck bus in Russian-controlled part of Horlivka.