MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces had fired four U.S.-made ATACMS missiles at the southern Russian city of Voronezh in an attempted strike on civilian targets.
Ukraine’s military said on Tuesday it had attacked military targets in Russia with U.S.-supplied ATACMS missiles, calling it a “significant development.”
Kyiv received the systems in 2023 but was initially restricted to using them only on its own territories, nearly a fifth of which are controlled by Russia.
“Russian S-400 air defence crews and Pantsir missile and gun systems shot down all ATACMS missiles,” Russia’s defence ministry said on Telegram.
Falling debris from the destroyed missiles damaged the roofs of a Voronezh retirement home and an orphanage, as well as one house, the ministry said adding that there were no casualties or injured among civilians.
The ministry published pictures of pieces of the missiles and said that air reconnaissance forces identified the Kharkiv region as the location of the ATACMS launch.
Russia said it had fired Iskander-M missiles to destroy two Ukrainian multiple rocket launchers.
Ukraine previously attacked Russian territories with U.S.-made ATACMS missiles on January, firing six missiles on Russia’s Belgorod region.
After Ukraine fired U.S. ATACMS and British Storm Shadow missiles into Russia last year, Putin ordered a hypersonic missile be fired at Ukraine.
(Reporting by Reuters in Moscow and Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Tom Hogue)
President Trump dispatched a high-level Pentagon delegation to Kyiv for talks Wednesday in the administration’s latest attempt to revive negotiations on halting Russia’s war with Ukraine, according to senior U.S. officials.
Army Secretary Dan Driscoll, along with two four-star Army generals, was scheduled to hold discussions with President Volodymyr Zelensky and other Ukrainian officials, as well as top military and industry representatives, two of the officials said. Driscoll is planning to meet with Russian officials at a later date.
(Reuters) -The Trump administration has been secretly formulating a new plan to end the war in Ukraine in consultation with Russia, Axios reported Tuesday, citing U.S. and Russian officials.
It is a 28-point roadmap inspired by U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan for the Gaza ceasefire, the news outlet reported. Similar to the Gaza plan, the proposal would consist of “peace in Ukraine, security guarantees, security in Europe, and future U.S. relations with Russia and Ukraine,” Axios reported, citing sources.
The U.S. special envoy, Steve Witkoff, is leading the formation of the plan and “has discussed it extensively with Russian envoy Kirill Dmitriev,” Axios reported, citing a U.S. official.
Citing a Ukrainian official, Axios said Witkoff discussed the plan with Rustem Umerov, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s security advisor, earlier this week in Miami.
A U.S. official also told Axios that the White House had started to brief European officials on the proposal.
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Reuters.
(Reporting by Christian Martinez; editing by Scott Malone and Thomas Derpinghaus)
A spokesperson for Poland’s special services minister accused Russian intelligence Tuesday of orchestrating a railway blast that destroyed a key track on a route used to deliver aid to Ukraine.
Jacek Dobrzyński told reporters that “everything indicates” Russian intelligence was behind the sabotage of Polish railways.
“The fact is that everything indicates that this — we can already confidently call it a terrorist attack — was initiated by special services from the East,” said Dobrzyński.
An explosion destroyed a section of track on the Warsaw-Lublin railway line, while another stretch farther south was damaged in what authorities are investigating as a possible act of sabotage.
A Koleje Mazowieckie train sits on the tracks with police tape nearby as Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the site of a blast on the Warsaw-Lublin line in Mika, Poland, Nov. 17, 2025.(KPRM/Handout via REUTERS)
Dobrzyński said the investigations into both incidents were still ongoing. “I cannot say what stage the officers are [at] or [what they are] currently working on and what threads they are connecting or what threads they are analysing,” he explained.
“The Russian services would very much want to have this information: where our officers are or in which direction they are heading.”
A policeman stands near the train at the site of a blast on the Warsaw-Lublin railway line in Mika, Poland, Nov. 16, 2025.(Dariusz Borowicz/Agencja Wyborcza.pl via REUTERS)
Prime Minister Donald Tusk called the blast on the Warsaw-Lublin line an “unprecedented act of sabotage.”
“The explosion of an explosive device destroyed the railway track. Emergency services and the prosecutor’s office are working at the scene. On the same route, closer to Lublin, damage has also been identified,” Tusk wrote Monday on X, vowing to find the perpetrators.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk visits the site of a blast on the Warsaw-Lublin railway line in Mika, Poland, Nov. 17, 2025.(KPRM/Handout via REUTERS)
The government’s National Security Committee convened Tuesday with military commanders, intelligence chiefs and the president’s representative in attendance to discuss the incidents.
Poland’s accusation comes amid recent security incidents in Eastern Europe, following airspace incursions in September that saw Russian drones enter Poland and three MiG-31 fighter jets cross into Estonia before being intercepted by NATO aircraft.
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland has identified two people responsible for an explosion on a railway route to Ukraine, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Tuesday, adding that they were Ukrainians who collaborated with Russian intelligence and that they had fled to Belarus.
The blast on the Warsaw-Lublin line, which connects the Polish capital to the Ukrainian border, followed a wave of arson, sabotage and cyberattacks in Poland and other European countries since the start of the war in Ukraine.
Warsaw has said Poland has become one of Moscow’s biggest targets due to its role as a hub for aid to Kyiv. Russia has repeatedly denied being responsible for acts of sabotage.
“The most important information is that… we have identified the people responsible for the acts of sabotage,” Tusk told lawmakers.
“In both cases we are sure that the attempt to blow up the rails and the railway infrastructure violation were intentional and their aim was to cause a railway traffic catastrophe,” he said.
Earlier on Tuesday, a spokesperson for Poland’s special services minister said everything pointed to Russian intelligence services commissioning sabotage on Polish railways.
(Reporting by Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk, Alan Charlish, Pawel Florkiewicz; Editing by Conor Humphries)
DUBAI (Reuters) -Russian state conglomerate Rostec said on Tuesday that its defence exports fell by half since 2022 as domestic orders became a priority amid the fighting in Ukraine, but expects recovery soon.
Until 2022 Russia held second place in the world after the United States in defence exports, but the volumes dropped “due to the fact that we have had to supply most of our production to our army”, Rostec Chief Sergey Chemezov told reporters.
Sanctions have complicated operations both in civil and defence sectors, but did not affect overall output, he said.
“I assure you that in the near future we will start to recover (with exports). We have expanded our capacities and increased production, so we will be able not only to meet the needs of our military but also supply our partners,” Chemezov said, speaking on the sidelines of the Dubai Airshow.
The company’s backlog of export orders exceeds $60 billion, Russian state agencies reported early in November, citing Rostec.
Rostec sees a huge demand from several countries for its new fifth-generation stealth fighter jet Sukhoi Su-57, he said, but did not provide details.
Rostec’s subsidiary the United Aircraft Corporation continues to work on the MS-21 airliner, which is set to replace Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 in Russia and is expected to be ready for commercial use in 2026.
MS-21 is currently carrying out flight tests and a shorter 140-seat version is expected within two years, Chemezov said.
(Reporting by Federico Maccioni; Writing by Gleb Stolyarov; Editing by Joe Bavier/Guy Faulconbridge)
The European Commission plans to restrict exports of aluminum scrap amid concerns that rising outflows of the resource could leave Europe short of a critical input for its decarbonization efforts.
“We are launching the preparatory work on a new measure to address the issue of aluminium scrap leakage,” said EU trade chief Maros Sefcovic at the European Aluminum Summit on Tuesday.
KYIV (Reuters) -As winter looms and Russian forces adapt their tactics, Ukrainian troops need to double down on technological innovation and flood the front line with more drones to halt Moscow’s territorial gains, a senior commander said.
Oleksandr Pivnenko, head of Ukraine’s National Guard, said Russia continued to have the manpower advantage after nearly four years of war in Ukraine, but Kyiv and Moscow had parity in drones in key battlefield areas.
“It is not easy for us now. I think it will be consistently difficult … because there is wet mud, it will be harder to drive,” Pivnenko told Reuters in an interview.
Late autumn and early winter are traditionally difficult for both armies because fields, tracks and roads become difficult to negotiate in wet weather. In very cold temperatures, the earth hardens, improving manoeuvrability.
“We need to stop the enemy more as they approach on foot, so that they do not infiltrate, and do not let them through,” Pivnenko said.
“If we carry out these tasks with greater density on the front line and the enemy infiltrates less deeply, it will be better for us.”
COMMANDER SEES THE NATURE OF WAR CHANGE
Since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, fierce fighting has raged along more than 1,200 km (745 miles) of front lines. Russia says it now controls about 19% of Ukraine.
But the nature of combat has changed drastically, said the 39-year-old general, who fought Russian forces in the eastern city of Bakhmut before the mass deployment of drones that now hover above the front lines targeting anything that moves.
Bakhmut fell to Russian forces in mid-2023 after nearly a year of fierce fighting and artillery and missile strikes that flattened the city. Pivnenko’s units are now defending the strategic city of Pokrovsk against soldiers and drones.
To accelerate their advance in Pokrovsk, Russian troops have changed tactics and entered the city in small groups. Within weeks, they were active in several parts of the city, relying on drones to provide cover and identify and attack enemy positions.
To offset a shortage of troops that has allowed the enemy to break through defensive lines, Ukraine needs to quickly harness technological and tactical change, Pivnenko said.
One way of doing this would be to better coordinate the “layers” of drone operations so that those who operate drones closer to the contact line, for example, do not compete with or duplicate those further back.
“We need to build this in tiers,” he said. “So that one unit deals with one thing and another with others. And we do not get in each other’s way.”
YOUNGER COMMANDERS, GREATER DYNAMISM
Pivnenko was appointed in 2023 and has focused on increasing the number and variety of drones used by his units, improving and expanding training for newly mobilised soldiers and helping maintain morale among exhausted troops.
“During the war, modern war, we need to be very flexible, adaptable, and it is working. Standing still is not an option. Either act or don’t,” Pivnenko said.
The National Guard is among the first in Ukraine’s defence forces to have almost completed a move from a brigade-based structure to a corps-based one that comprises several brigades.
Pivnenko now commands two corps – Azov and Khartia – two of Ukraine’s best-known and most respected fighting forces.
He said the reforms would help strengthen Ukrainian defences thanks to better controls, command and coordination, and would promote younger commanders with combat experience.
“Young commanders are more decisive, less experienced, but more determined to take action, and to change something in the situation in general. That’s what they’re focused on, change,” he said.
(Additional reporting by Serhiy Karazy and Anna Voitenko, Editing by Mike Collett-White and Timothy Heritage)
ROME (Reuters) -The world is facing a deepening hunger crisis with resources falling far short of needs, the United Nations World Food Programme warned on Tuesday, citing sharp declines in humanitarian funding.
In its 2026 Global Outlook, the Rome-based WFP said 318 million people were expected to face crisis levels of hunger or worse next year, more than double the number in 2019.
But shrinking humanitarian funding means the WFP only plans to assist about 110 million of the most vulnerable people in 2026, at a cost of $13 billion, the agency said. Current forecasts suggest it may receive only about half that amount.
“The world is grappling with simultaneous famines, in Gaza and parts of Sudan. This is completely unacceptable in the 21st century,” WFP Executive Director Cindy McCain said in a statement.
“Hunger is becoming more entrenched. We know early, effective solutions save lives, but we desperately need more support.”
The WFP’s biggest donor, the United States, has slashed its foreign aid under President Donald Trump, and other major nations have also made or announced cuts in assistance.
The WFP said last month that it expected to receive 40% less funding year-on-year for 2025, resulting in a projected budget of $6.4 billion, down from $10 billion in 2024.
Conflict, extreme weather and economic instability are expected to drive severe food insecurity, WFP said. In 2025, its famine prevention efforts pulled communities back from the brink of starvation, but the overall crisis shows no sign of easing.
The agency said it would deliver emergency food and nutrition aid, help communities build resilience to food shocks, and provide technical support to strengthen national systems, while leveraging technology to improve efficiency.
“WFP provides a critical lifeline to people on the frontlines of conflicts and disasters, and we are transforming how we work to invest in long-term solutions,” McCain added. “Ending entrenched hunger demands sustained support and real global commitment.”
WFP urged governments and donors to invest in proven solutions to curb hunger and move closer to the goal of zero hunger.
(Reporting by Crispian Balmer;Editing by Alison Williams)
KYIV (Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he planned to go to Turkey on Wednesday in an attempt to revive talks with Russia on how to end the war in Ukraine.
A Turkish source said that U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff would also visit Turkey on Wednesday and join the planned talks there with Zelenskiy.
“We are preparing to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners. Doing everything possible to bring the end of the war closer is Ukraine’s top priority,” Zelenskiy, who was visiting Spain on Tuesday, said about the meetings in Turkey.
No face-to-face talks have taken place between Kyiv and Moscow since they met in Istanbul in July.
Ukraine and Russia have held several rounds of talks in Istanbul that led to the exchange of thousands of prisoners of war and the remains of dead soldiers.
But the two sides have made no breakthrough towards a ceasefire or a settlement to end the war that is approaching its four year mark.
Zelenskiy said Kyiv was also working to restore exchanges of prisoners of war.
(Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko and Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Alison Williams)
(Reuters) -The Moscow-installed head of the parts of Ukraine’s eastern region of Donetsk controlled by Russia said on Tuesday that “an unprecedented” Ukrainian overnight attack damaged two thermal power plants, leaving many settlements without electricity.
Denis Pushilin, writing on the Telegram messaging app, said boiler houses and water filtration plants at the Zuivska and Starobesheve thermal power plants had shut down and that emergency crews were working to restore supplies.
On Monday, Pushilin said that an attack by Ukrainian strike drones on energy infrastructure had left roughly 500,000 people without power across several districts.
Reuters could not independently verity the report. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine about the attack.
Kyiv has stepped up long-range drone and missile strikes against power plants and infrastructure in Russian-controlled parts of Donetsk in recent weeks, seeking to disrupt military logistics and undermine Moscow’s ability to sustain its war.
(Reporting by Lidia Kelly in Melbourne; Editing by Christian Schmollinger)
Wilmer Chavarria was living the good life after faking his own death.
For four years, the Ecuadorean drug boss allied with Mexico’s Jalisco cartel moved among Dubai, Morocco and Spain, allegedly overseeing his drug empire and hit jobs back home—all while staying at the most exclusive hotels, Ecuador’s government said. To avoid detection, he underwent seven surgeries to alter his appearance and changed his name to Danilo Fernández.
ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish Defence Minister Yasar Guler said on Monday it would take at least two months to reach initial findings and analyse the black box of a Turkish cargo plane that crashed in Georgia last week and left 20 soldiers dead.
The C-130 cargo aircraft had left Azerbaijan for Turkey and crashed in Georgia, marking the NATO member’s highest military death toll since 2020. Ankara has said it was investigating the cause of the crash.
Speaking to reporters after a cabinet meeting in Ankara, Guler said the black box of the aircraft was being inspected by Turkish Aerospace Industries (TUSAS), adding that despite the crash, the C-130 planes – which Turkey has been operating since 1957 – were “generally safe”.
“According to preliminary findings, although not definitive, the tail breaks off first. It then splits into three. This will be found in the (inspection of the) black box,” he said, and added that, apart from an engine fire in 1999 after which the aircraft had landed safely, there had been no issues with the C-130s.
Turkey’s defence ministry said last week the aircraft was carrying a 10-person maintenance team for Turkish F-16s that had earlier taken part in Victory Day celebrations in Azerbaijan, as well as the flight crew and maintenance equipment.
Turkey’s defence ministry announced last month an agreement with Britain to procure 12 C-130 aircraft that need to undergo modernisation and maintenance.
It also said last week that the crashed plane was bought from Saudi Arabia in 2012, started flights in 2022, and completed its last maintenance a month ago, adding all planned flights by Turkey’s 18 C-130s were suspended pending inspection.
(Reporting by Huseyin Hayatsever; Writing by Tuvan Gumrukcu; Editing by Toby Chopra)
LONDON—The U.K. government on Monday announced an overhaul of its immigration policy to deter asylum seekers from arriving on British shores, the latest European nation to tighten rules in response to growing dissatisfaction from voters at levels of illegal immigration.
The Labour government of Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a suite of policies including changing laws to make it easier to expel migrants, quadrupling the length of time they have to wait to become permanent residents to 20 years and regularly reviewing whether their home countries have become safer and can take them back.
HELSINKI (Reuters) -It is vital to use frozen Russian assets to help fund Ukraine, Finland’s President Alexander Stubb told reporters in Brussels on Monday.
(Reporting by Essi Lehto, editing by Terje Solsvik)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Monday that he had signed a letter of intent to acquire 100 Rafale F4 fighter jets by 2035, SAMP/T air defense systems, radars, air-to-air-missiles and aerial bombs from France.
“Eva Helene Pade: Søgelys” is at Thaddaeus Ropac in London through December 20, 2025. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul . Photo: Eva Herzog
Hauntingly beautiful… revelatory: these are the adjectives that come to mind when staring at Eva Helene Pade’s paintings. Amorphous bodies move across the canvas like a choreography of spectral dancers, dynamically taking over the elegant architecture of Thaddaeus Ropac’s gallery in London. It’s a spectacle of erotic energy, where the power of attraction and seduction of the femme fatale finds its stage, manifesting through moody, dramatic atmospheres shaped by color sensations and instinctive emotional reactions.
Following the Danish-born, Paris-based artist’s institutional debut at ARKEN Museum of Contemporary Art in Denmark earlier this year and multiple new auction records set at auction (the latest at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in 2024, when A Story to Be Told #14 (2021) sold for $123,417) the exhibition “Søgelys” (on view through December 20, 2025) brings together a new group of paintings in which Eva Helene Pade continues to explore the violent and seductive forces that exist between bodies in space. The body is examined here as both a medium and a filter, a porous psychical, cognitive and emotional membrane through which we negotiate our interactions and relationships with others. Painting becomes a vehicle for a continuous exercise of female embodiment and disembodiment, creating both a dance and a tension that unfolds within the canvas and the surrounding space. “Color is crucial for me; it’s emotional and psychological,” she tells Observer. “The palette often defines the atmosphere of a work before the figures even appear.”
Eva Helene Pade. Courtesy of Thaddeus Ropac.
Pade turns the canvas into a living stage where color and movement try to spontaneously channel and translate the prelinguistic expressions of the human psyche. Her process is deeply intuitive: the figures emerge from the act of painting itself, beginning with an abstract field and moving through a fluid process of identification and alienation. “I start drawing figures into it. At first, they appear as little blobs, and gradually I begin carving them out until the forms start taking shape, only to change again and become something else entirely,” she says. Pade also tunes herself to rhythm, listening to classical music to enter an inner world of narratives and transforming its prelinguistic storytelling into a tool to address universal questions about the human condition.
“I work very instinctively, letting intuition lead. Sometimes it fails; sometimes it surprises me. I rely on that tension,” she says, acknowledging how her influences have shifted over time, though certain painters have always remained with her. The psychological charge of her work recalls the emotional and psychological layering of artists such as Edvard Munch, Amber Wellmann, Nicolas de Staël, Cecily Brown, Marlene Dumas and Miriam Cahn, as well as older masters like Rodin and Rubens, who reveal how much emotion can be conveyed through a gesture or pose.
Still, despite this intuitive channeling through pigment and color, Pade’s works are never autobiographical portraits; they’re personal but not literal. “I don’t paint people from my life, nor do I use photographic references. They’re intuitive, almost dreamlike—images that emerge and shift as I work,” she explains.
Like monsters or ghosts reemerging from the subconscious, these spectral presences probe the porous diaphragm between the inner and outer world, a boundary that painting can reveal. “I’ve always been drawn to painting. I began drawing as a means to process both external reality and my inner world,” Pade says. She never had strict academic training, so she taught herself anatomy, proportion and form, which may be why her figures appear slightly off, existing within her own visual logic. “That wonkiness has become my language.”
In her debut show with the gallery, Pade’s monumental and small-scale canvases are suspended on floor-to-ceiling metal posts, set away from the walls to create dynamic spatial configurations. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul . Photo: Eva Herzog
The canvas becomes the stage where the “shadow,” the “removed,” is confronted in a distinctly Freudian and Jungian sense. “I keep molding the surface, working into the face, pulling new elements out of the shadows that I hadn’t noticed before,” Pade confirms. “A dark color might form a symbol or pattern, which I then push back into the composition.” It’s a long, layered process that involves as much waiting and letting the paint dry as it does discovery and transformation.
Still, it’s immediately apparent upon entering the show that this new body of work engages with femininity, sensuality and the position of the female body in space. Painting is for Pade a means of exploring the relationship between self and surroundings, how this dynamic subtly defines and redefines identity between body and soul, between the one and the many. Her figures, often expressionless and featureless, convey emotion through gesture and contortion, resonating with a universality that transcends any autobiographical reading.
What she paints is a potentially cacophonous orchestra of sensations and voices, a confrontation with the chaos of humanity in which the self is continually dissolved and rediscovered. Pade began painting crowds during lockdown, reflecting the strange collective isolation of that time. “They’re images of people together, but not necessarily about any specific moment. They’re more like metaphors of time itself.”
There is always a narrative in her paintings, but it remains open-ended. It’s the drama of human existence in dialogue with the external world that Pade paints. “I don’t want to trap the viewer in a single message. It’s more like a free exploration on the canvas: an emotional and physical response that builds its own logic,” she says.
Once the paintings are presented outside of the studio, they gain new context from the space and from the people who encounter them. In London, Pade wanted to choreograph her own visual rhythm, thinking about how the paintings could occupy the space almost like stage sets. “The exhibition space was so unconventional that I had to respond directly to its quirks—the staircase, the unusual angles—so I began playing with composition almost like orchestration,” she explains. “It all made sense because the project was inspired by a ballet, so I leaned into that theatricality, treating the canvases like backdrops.”
Pade doesn’t have a background in theater but she clearly thinks compositionally, almost like a stage director. The paintings are intentionally life-sized so the figures stand in direct relation to the viewer’s body as they float and dance in these hazy atmospheres, much like in a nightclub or a theater. “I want the experience to be physical, to break the passive distance between viewer and painting.”
Although the works are two-dimensional, they feel animated by their dense atmospheres, where bodies flicker between visibility and occlusion, partially veiled by soft billows of smoke or lit from within by a flaming glow or radiant beams of light. Lifting the paintings off the wall and letting them float through the space isn’t a gimmick; it heightens this emotional rhythm. “For these crowd scenes, it made sense. The figures seem to hover or drift in space, and the installation amplifies that effect,” she notes.
For Pade, the human body is part of a primal, instinctive language, like a brushstroke, a gesture or a dance. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul . Photo: Eva Herzog
While staging the paintings outside her studio, she realized that by not hanging them flat on the wall the viewer could see their backs—the wooden stretchers, sketches and raw marks behind the surface. They became living metaphors for the relationship between inner world and external space. “I liked that transparency, that glimpse into process. Light passed through them in interesting ways, giving them a smoldering depth,” she acknowledges. “When people walked around, the paintings seemed to move with them. It became immersive. You could almost walk into the composition.”
In the space, the unified spectral presences of Pade’s choreography found their living essence again, becoming interlocutors with the viewers. And if painting is, first of all, an open conversation, an expansive narrative field where everyone can identify and project their own meanings, the universal power of connection offered by Eva Helene Pade’s painterly storytelling and its endless variations is proof of how her art can still evolve. Even the “failed” works contribute to her evolution, as painting remains for her both a necessity and an urgency, a means to confront and process the multifaceted reality of the world. “You learn technique, rhythm and restraint from them.”
The potentially continuous evolution of the canvases on view reveals Pade’s enduring excitement for painting. “I don’t plan big conceptual changes. It evolves organically with each new piece,” she reflects. “Some paintings fail; I destroy or hide them if they don’t resonate. I think it’s crucial to be self-critical. A work that doesn’t move me won’t move anyone else.”
Installed in the round, fragments of Pade’s images overlap so that characters appear to flit from one scene to another, vanishing and then recurring as in dreams. Courtesy Thaddaeus Ropac gallery, London · Paris · Salzburg · Milan · Seoul . Photo: Eva Herzog
LONDON (Reuters) -Ukraine struck Russia’s port of Novorossiysk last week, forcing it to suspend oil exports. The Neptune missile it used is one of several long-range weapons Ukraine has developed since the 2022 invasion.
Here is an overview of some of these new Ukrainian armaments based on statements from Kyiv.
Ukraine says its domestically produced “Long Neptune” is a ground-launched land-attack cruise missile with a range of up to 1,000 km (621 miles). It was developed from the shorter-range Neptune anti-ship missile that existed before the invasion.
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy announced its increased range in March. The military said on Friday it had been used to hit Novorossiysk, Russia’s largest Black Sea export hub. Ukraine says it is producing more of the missiles.
The Flamingo, also known as the FP-5, is a new ground-launched land-attack cruise missile that Zelenskiy says has a range of 3,000 km (1,864 miles). He has talked it up as Ukraine’s most successful missile and said it should enter mass production by year-end. It is made by Fire Point, a private Ukrainian defence company.
Zelenskiy said in October that the Flamingo had been used on Russian targets but did not elaborate.
The long-range propeller-powered Lyutyi one-way attack drone has been a workhorse of Ukraine’s deep strikes on energy infrastructure in Russia this year. The drone, produced by aircraft manufacturer Antonov, can fly more than 1,000 km.
The FP-1 long-range one-way attack drone made by Fire Point has also been widely used to conduct deep strikes on targets in Russia and also has a range of more than 1,000 km.
The first combat use of the Palianytsia “drone missile” was announced by Zelenskiy in August 2024. The president said in October that the weapon, which is named after a type of Ukrainian bread, had hit Russian ammunition depots in dozens of cases.
Ukraine’s Militarnyi defence news outlet said it has a range of 650 km (404 miles) and a turbojet engine that allows it to fly at 900 km per hour, much faster than a normal drone.
The Ruta is another “drone missile” that Zelenskiy has said he expects to enter mass production by year-end. He said in October it had been used for the first time to strike a maritime platform at a range of more than 250 km (155 miles).
The Peklo, Ukrainian for “hell”, is another “drone missile”. Zelenskiy said in December 2024 that a first batch of the weapons had been supplied to the Ukrainian military. Ukraine’s Defence Express outlet estimates the range at around 700 km (435 miles).
The Bars, Ukrainian for “leopard”, is a newer drone missile whose existence was revealed in April 2025. The Ukrainian military said last week that it was used by Ukraine to attack Russian targets.
(Reporting by Tom Balmforth; editing by Gareth Jones)
BERLIN (Reuters) -The German government will lift an order suspending some weapons sales to Israel from next week, following the ceasefire agreement reached last month, a government spokesperson said on Monday.
“The government will, as a general rule, revert to case-by-case reviews in decisions on arms exports and respond to further developments,” the spokesperson said.
The decision will allow the resumption of exports suspended in August, from Nov. 24, the spokesperson said.
Germany, the second-largest exporter of arms to Israel after the United States, announced a suspension of some arms exports to Israel in August, amid mounting popular pressure over the war in Gaza.
The decision affected weapons and systems that could be used in Gaza but not others deemed necessary for Israel to defend itself from external attacks.
The spokesperson said Germany remained committed to supporting a lasting peace between Israel and the Palestinians on the basis of a two state solution and would continue to engage in supporting reconstruction in Gaza.
(Reporting by Andreas Rinke; writing by James Mackenzie; editing by Friederike Heine)
KYIV (Reuters) -A Russian attack on Ukraine’s southern region of Odesa sparked fires at port and energy infrastructure facilities, emergency services said on Monday.
The attack damaged port equipment and several civilian vessels moored at the berths, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration Oleksii Kuleba wrote on Telegram.
“One of the ports is experiencing power outages, and specialists are already working to restore power,” he said.
The attack on the region cut power to 36,500 households, Ukraine’s private energy firm DTEK said on Monday. Some 32,500 households remained without power as of the morning.
DTEK reported significant damage to its facilities following the overnight attack in a post on the Telegram messaging app.
(Reporting by Anastasiia Malenko; Editing by Himani Sarkar and Alex Richardson)
