Bbc Ukraine News Today

Stay dry. We will have some of that low cloud affecting the North Sea coast. Into next week, low pressure continues to fire across the atlantic, across england and wales, bringing further zones of heavy rain. Is that clear through later in the week, turns friday we will start to get these colder northwesterly Wind Diving its way southwards. Next week we will see a sharp drop in temperatures, average at this time of year in edinburgh is 17 degrees, so it will be quite a cold week next week. Fayed...

Danish Ambassador, Ole Egberg Mikkelsen, expressed “optimism” about Ukraine getting F-16s, referring to words of Danish PM Mette Frederiksen in an interview with RBC-Ukraine on April 30.

As the PM ramps up defence spending, the Conservative's James Heappey and Labour's Baroness Anderson join Krishnan Guru-Murthy to discuss whether British troops could end up fighting Putin's war.

The Ukrainian military had been on high alert for a week before the downing of the Russian Tu-22M3 bomber, Kyrylo Budanov, Head of Ukraine's Defence Intelligence, has revealed. Source: Budanov in a comment to BBC Ukraine Quote: "For a week we were, put it this way, lying in ambush.

The supersonic bomber is designed to take out sea- and ground-based targets using guided missiles and aerial bombs.

Russia plans to carry out several more massive attacks on Ukraine's energy sector this spring, Defense Intelligence (HUR) spokesman Vadym Skibitskyi said in a comment to news outlet RBC-Ukraine on April 2.

BBC Ukraine journalist Oksana Torop shared insights with Radio NV on Feb. 16 regarding a recently released interview with former Ukraine’s SBU Security Service general Andriy Naumov, deemed a traitor in Ukraine.

Josep Borrell, the EU's chief diplomat, arrived in Kyiv on Feb. 6, media reported. This is Borrell's fourth visit to Ukraine since the outbreak of the full-scale war.

The Ukrainian media outlet RBC claimed that a drone had struck the Nevsky Mazut oil refinery in the city. Citing unnamed sources, RBC said that the strike was carried out by Ukraine's military intelligence (HUR).

Russia is currently focused on destroying Ukraine's defense industry, but the threat to the power grid remains, deputy head of Ukrainian intelligence, Vadym Skibitskyi, said in an interview with Ukrainian news outlet RBC-Ukraine on Jan. 15.