After more than a year of bloody assaults, hundreds of Russian troops are now fighting inside the city of Pokrovsk.

Ukraine said Wednesday it had assassinated a Russian officer responsible for war crimes, targeting him in a car bomb inside Russia.

Ukrainian soldiers told Business Insider the tactic is becoming increasingly frequent and a growing challenge.

Ukrainian drones targeted oil depots in the city of Simferopol and the village of Hvardiiske in Russian-occupied Crimea overnight on Oct. 29, the Crimean Wind Telegram channel reported.

As Zelenskyy lauds Europe and the U.S. for ramping up economic pressure on Putin over the war in Ukraine, Moscow dismisses them as a counterproductive "act of war."

Officials say Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday have killed at least four people and wounded 20.

Russian ballistic missiles rained down on several parts of Kyiv early Saturday morning and killed at least four while wounding 13 more in Ukraine's capital.

Around 100 people have gathered at a church in Kyiv to honor two Ukrainian journalists killed by a Russian drone strike.

When they are not fighting, they write poetry, letters home or words of praise to their supreme commander,” said one of the directors at Moscow's Museum of Victory.

MOSCOW, Oct 23 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions in a sharp policy shift on Moscow's war in Ukraine, prompting global oil prices to rise by 5% on Thursday and India to consider cutting Russian imports.