At the same time, the Trump administration is withdrawing free entry on Martin Luther King Jr Day and Juneteenth.

The NATO Security Assistance and Training for Ukraine (NSATU) held a ceremony to raise the Ukrainian flag.

In Fastiv, Kyiv region, railway workers have set up a temporary mobile station next to the building destroyed during Russia’s large-scale strike on the night of December 6.

The law comes into effect this week but critics worry it can’t be enforced - and shouldn’t be either.

Images appeared online of unveiled women competing in the race on Friday.

Two boys have been successfully returned from the temporarily occupied territory of the Kherson region.

President Volodymyr Zelensky, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council Rustem Umerov, and Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Andrii Hnatov discussed key matters that could guarantee an end to the bloodshed and remove the threat of a third Russian invasion with White House special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.

Drone strikes on a town in South Kordofan on Thursday are said to have killed at least 50 people.

Heavy strike drones of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine delivered thematic leaflets to Russian military positions, reminding them of personal responsibility and punishment for taking part in a criminal war.

The Defense Forces control the northern part of Pokrovsk and are blocking the advance of Russian occupiers in the city center. The enemy is suffering significant losses.