Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,440.

US President Donald Trump wrote after a conversation with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi that the Indian leader is willing to abandon the purchase of Russian oil and linked this to the possibility of a faster end to Russia's war against Ukraine.

"Six-hundred seventy-nine Ukrainian girls and boys will never be able to play football — Russia killed them," Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha said after FIFA President Gianni Infantino backed lifting the ban on Russian athletes.

Russia continuously upgrades its Geran (Shahed) drones to beat Ukrainian defenses, but rising costs now exceed cheap interceptor drones, flipping the cost balance.

A new CSIS report warns Russia-Ukraine war casualties could reach 2 million by spring 2026, with Russia reportedly suffering 1.2 million casualties so far.

A new report warns that the number of soldiers killed, injured or missing in Russia's war in Ukraine could reach 2 million by spring

Fifteen people were killed and seven wounded after a Russian drone struck a bus carrying miners in Ukraine's southeastern Dnipropetrovsk region, energy firm DTEK ​and government officials said on Sunday.

Ukrainians will soon be informed of "certain results" regarding a prisoner exchange, stated National Security and Defense Council SecretaryRustem Umerov. “In the near future, you will hear about certain results regarding the prisoner exchange.