Ukraine sent dozens of its own citizens to Russia last month, releasing them from prisons in an attempt to secure the release of dozens of Ukrainian civilians held illegally in Russian jails – a move

The Russian army attacked the outskirts of Ukraine's Kharkiv late Sunday evening, June 8, using guided aerial bombs, informs Kharkiv Regional Military Administration Head Oleh Syniehubov and Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov.

NBC News has analyzed satellite imagery to dig into the claims being made by Kyiv and Moscow as part of a wider propaganda war being waged in parallel to the actual fighting.

Massive Russian strikes on Ukraine’s second-largest city killed at least five people on Saturday, officials said, one night after Moscow carried out one of the war’s largest aerial assaults on Ukraine.

At least three were killed and 49 injured in a missile-and-drone attack that focused on Kyiv, days after a daring assault on Moscow’s bomber fleet.

The Russian Ministry of Defense said soldiers have advanced into the Dnipropetrovsk region in south-central Ukraine.

A planned exchange of Russian and Ukrainian prisoners of war failed to take place on Saturday, with Moscow accusing Kyiv of postponing the swap at the last minute, which Ukrainian officials dismissed as more “dirty games” from the Kremlin.