While the agreement rattled officials in South Korea and Japan, the two U.S. allies in recent years have been expecting growing security challenges from North Korea.

Ukraine says its energy facilities have come under a “massive” attack from Russia overnight, in the latest onslaught targeting the country's power grid. It is the eighth time Russia has launched an attack on energy infrastructure facilities in the past three months,

South Korea calls in the Russian ambassador and says it could supply arms to Ukraine. A Russian guided bomb killed two people and wounded three in a residential area of the eastern Ukrainian town of Selydove on Friday,

While some have fled Ukraine's second-largest city, others remain, even performing a classical music festival in defiance of the war.

A Russian missile and drone barrage damaged a Ukrainian power plant and other energy facilities overnight, officials said on Thursday, the latest in a series of strikes that have pushed its grid to the brink.

Russia resumed its aerial pounding of Ukraine's power grid and Kyiv's forces again targeted Russian oil facilities with cross-border drone strikes, each seeking to curb the other's ability to fight in a war that is now in its third year,

The Russian President accused Kyiv's Western partners of raising tensions even further by greenlighting the use of NATO weapons against targets on Russian soil