Almost four years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but many Ukrainians are fighting to keep morale high.

Military analysts and some Ukrainian commanders worry that Kyiv may be repeating the mistake of staying in an embattled city longer than it should, aiming to inflict far more casualties than it suffers.

Ukraine is being shaken by one of the biggest wartime corruption scandals since Russia's invasion three years ago, after investigators raided the homes of top officials and a former business partner of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as part of an investigation into an alleged sprawling corruption scheme in the country's energy sector.

The wall is intended to protect cities and key infrastructure from Russian glide bombs and Shahed-type drones.

A Ukrainian commander says the Russian army has overrun three settlements in Ukraine's southern Zaporizhzhia region

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban attacked what he called the "golden illusion" of Ukraine as a $100 million corruption scandal involving the state nuclear energy company rocks the government of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ukraine's online market allows troops to buy weapons with points earned for Russian kills. That'll expand to evacuations with robots.

The rates of interception of both Russian drones and missiles fired into Ukraine through October slipped as Moscow continued its long-range bombardments.

Funding Ukraine with a reparations loan based on immobilised Russian assets would be the most "effective" of three options being considered by the European Union to help Kyiv, the head of the bloc's executive Commission said on Thursday.

A corruption scandal over the energy sector has dealt a new blow to President Volodymyr Zelensky as Ukraine battles Russian advances and attacks on energy infrastructure