A huge fire has broken out at another Russian oil refinery following a wave of Ukrainian drone attacks.Ukrainian drones struck the refinery in Russia’s central city of Ryazan, some 120 miles southeast of Moscow, on Friday, according to the commander of Ukraine’s drone forces.Commander Robert Brovdi said that his troops also hit 23 military targets and facilities in Russia and Ukraine overnight.Russia’s defence ministry claimed on Friday to have downed 355 Ukrainian drones over Russian regions through the night.Three people were killed and 12 injured in Ryazan, where strikes damaged high-rise apartment buildings and hit local industry, according to regional governor Pavel Malkov.Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile called for Moscow to be punished after visiting a destroyed Kyiv residential building where a Russian missile strike killed 24 people, including three children.Rescue workers ended search operations at the devastated building, which was struck this week during Russia's heaviest air attack on the Ukrainian capital this year.Russia launched more than 1,500 drones and dozens of missiles in attacks across Ukraine this week over two consecutive days, Ukrainian officials said.Pentagon ‘blindsided’ as Hegseth scraps deployment of 4,000 US troops to PolandA US official told POLITICO they “had no idea it was coming”, and said they had spent the last 24 hours speaking with Europe to try to make sense of the decision and whether more surprises could follow.Read our full story below. Daniel Keane15 May 2026 20:00Daniel Keane15 May 2026 19:00Russia strikes grain terminal at Ukrainian port, ministry saysA Russian attack struck ⁠a grain terminal at a ⁠Ukrainian ​port, ⁠injuring seven ⁠people, Ukraine's development ​ministry ⁠said.A ‌grain warehouse with cargo, ‌trucks and ‌handling equipment were ⁠damaged, the ministry said in a post on ‌X ​without specifying ‌which ⁠port was ⁠attacked.Daniel Keane15 May 2026 18:00Russia and Ukraine swap 205 prisoners of war eachRussia and Ukraine swapped 205 prisoners of war each on Friday, part of an agreement linked to a three-day ceasefire earlier this month brokered by U.S. President ⁠Donald Trump.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said it was the first step in a bigger prisoner of war swap, after Kyiv and Moscow had agreed to swap 1,000 POWs each under the terms of the agreement."205 Ukrainians are home. Most of them had been in Russian captivity since 2022," Zelensky said on the Telegram ⁠app, posting pictures of smiling servicemen, many wrapped ​in Ukrainian ⁠flags.Daniel Keane15 May 2026 17:00Germany says Ukrainian national arrested on suspicion of spying for RussiaGerman prosecutors said on Friday ⁠a German judge had enforced ⁠an ​arrest ⁠warrant against a ⁠Ukrainian national ​suspected of ⁠spying ‌for Russia.The defendant, identified ‌only as ‌Sergey N., had ⁠been detained in Spain at the end of March and ‌extradited ​to ‌Germany on ⁠Thursday, the ⁠prosecutors added.Daniel Keane15 May 2026 16:00Daniel Keane15 May 2026 15:01Arpan Rai15 May 2026 12:00Russia says prison population falls as convicts sent to fight Putin's war in UkraineRussia is witnessing a decrease in its population inside prison, with a drop of more than 180,000 people, in the past five years, the country’s prison chief said."If at the end of 2021 there were 465,000 (prisoners), then now there are 282,000," said Arkady Gostev, the head of Russia's penitentiary service.Around 85,000 of the current prison population is held in pre-trial detention, he told TASS state news agency.Gostev said the major decline in the prison population was partly driven by the army's recruitment drive, but also due to more suspended sentences and other forms of punishment handed out.Moscow has regularly relied on recruiting its prisoners in exchange for buying out their sentences and sent them on the Ukraine frontline, but experts flagged that their lack of military and battlefield knowledge made them vulnerable to killings.Army recruitment posters are stuck to a blackboard in an underground shelter that doubles as classroom in a school in Chernihiv, Ukraine November 25, 2025 (Reuters)Arpan Rai15 May 2026 11:45Zelensky says 24 killed and 48 injured in 'savage strike' as rescuers complete operationsUkraine president Volodymyr Zelensky said at least 24 people were killed and 48 left wounded in the “savage” Russian strikes yesterday.“The Russians practically demolished an entire section of the building with their missile. Twenty-four people were killed by this strike, including three children. My condolences to their families and loved ones. Everyone who was wounded or lost their home must receive the necessary assistance,” Zelensky said, adding that the rescue operations took more than a day.“In total, 48 people were wounded in Kyiv as a result of yesterday’s attack, including two children,” he added.“A Russia like this can never be normalised – a Russia that deliberately destroys lives and hopes to remain unpunished. Pressure is needed,” he said.The Ukrainian leader added that the war-hit nation facing Moscow’s aggression is defending Europe and the rest of the world so that the strikes don’t spread further.“I am grateful to everyone who did not remain silent and condemned this savage strike,” he said.Arpan Rai15 May 2026 11:25Russia says it has downed 355 Ukrainian drones overnightRussian forces have intercepted and destroyed at least 355 Ukrainian drones in the country’s airspace, the defence ministry said this morning.In the ⁠central ‌Russian city of Ryazan, ‌a drone ‌attack killed three people ⁠and injured 12, damaged high-rise apartment buildings and hit an industrial ‌enterprise, ​regional governor Pavel ‌Malkov ⁠said.Russia typically reports only how many drones its air defences say they downed, not how many Ukraine launched, and rarely discloses the full extent of damage unless civilians are killed or civilian sites are hit.(AFP/Getty)Arpan Rai15 May 2026 11:05