As Putin personally stages an “exceptional” three‑hour missile barrage on Kyiv billed as vengeance for a deadly dorm attack, his own pro‑war bloggers seethe that Russia burned an ultra‑expensive nuclear‑capable weapon for little visible gain.

Russia has likely struck the city of Bila Tserkva in Kyiv Oblast with an Oreshnik medium-range ballistic missile.

Ukrainian president says use of such weapons ‘sets a global precedent for other potential aggressors’ as blasts heard throughout the capital. What we know on day 1,551