Aircraft leasing firms win multibillion dollar lawsuit over planes ‘lost’ in Russia

High court in London rules companies can recover losses from insurers for aircraft stuck since invasion of Ukraine

Ukrainian held by Russia describes torture, sinister threats and Kafkaesque court process

Maksym Butkevych tells of pattern of beatings and threats of execution and sexual violence to extract ‘confession’

EU to propose lowering price cap on Russian oil in new sanctions package

Other measures to include tightening restrictions on ‘shadow fleet’, banks and Nord Stream investment

Zelenskyy calls for ‘concrete actions’ as Russian strikes hit seven of Kyiv’s 10 districts

Ukraine president criticises lack of response from allies as Moscow launches one of its largest attacks of war on Kyiv

Nato chief warns of Russian threat and calls for ‘quantum leap’ in collective defence

Mark Rutte to call for dramatic increase in military spending as the threat from Russia ‘will not disappear even when the war in Ukraine ends’

Ukraine claims to have damaged Russian fighter jets in night-time raid

Special forces reportedly launched assault on Russian airfield about 400 miles from Ukrainian border

‘It will lift the spirits’: Kyiv to stage ‘most English of ballets’ after Russian repertoire boycott

Frederick Ashton’s La Fille mal gardée to be performed for first time, replacing classics by Tchaikovsky and Stravinsky after fundraising in London

Russian forces closing in on Sumy city three years after Ukraine forced them out of region

Independent monitors confirm Kremlin claims of new and symbolically important advances in east of Ukraine

Neo-Nazi group ‘actively seeking to grow in US’ with planned paramilitary training event

The Base is emerging from shadows and ramping up its ranks as White House turns blind eye to the far right

Russia mounts deadly barrage of Kyiv after vowing revenge for Ukraine attack on bomber fleet

Four killed and 20 wounded as missiles and drones target the Ukrainian capital

Hegseth says Nato allies ‘very close’ to raising defence spending target to 5%

US defence secretary says he expects goal of 5% of GDP in next decade to be agreed this month

Russia warns it will respond to Ukraine drone attacks ‘how and when’ it sees fit

Kremlin comments seem to confirm reports Putin told Trump Moscow was obliged to hit back

First Thing: Trump signs order banning citizens of 12 countries from entering US

Nationals from countries including Afghanistan, Haiti and Sudan ‘fully’ restricted. Plus, a breakthrough in HIV research

Kremlin and Trump aides raise nuclear war fears after Ukraine drone strike

Vladimir Putin has warned Russia will respond to Kyiv’s attacks on nuclear-capable aircraft at airfields

Putin tells Trump Russia ‘will have to respond’ to Ukraine drone attack

US president says phone call with Russian leader won’t lead to ‘immediate peace’ as Moscow rules out ceasefire

EU plans would extend right for 4m Ukrainians to stay in bloc until 2027

European Commission also called for voluntary return schemes to support people wishing to go back to Ukraine . Europe live – latest updates

‘Five years from now, these readers will be soldiers’: The Russian literature encouraging teens to enlist

Master-race stories of heroic characters battling against zombie Nazis and western spies to recover imperial grandeur are a bleak new spin on an old propaganda tradition

Ukraine hits bridge linking Crimea to Russia with underwater explosives

Operation ‘severely damaged’ base of Kerch Bridge, opened by Putin in 2018, Kyiv’s SBU security service says

Second round of Ukraine-Russia talks end with PoW deal but no ceasefire

Delegations in Istanbul agree swap of at least 1,000 prisoners, and Ukraine says Russia agreed to return some abducted children

Operation Spiderweb: a visual guide to Ukraine’s destruction of Russian aircraft

In a spectacular attack planned over 18 months, Ukrainian agents moved drones and explosives deep inside Russia to strike four airbases