Ukraine’s air force said that Russia had launched 728 exploding drones and decoys, a barrage that set a single-night record and underscored Ukraine’s need for weapons. Trump, who just last week paused arms shipments to Ukraine, said on Monday that the U.S. would resume them because the country was “getting hit very hard.”

Russia launched an intense aerial assault on Ukraine’s capital Kyiv in the early hours of Thursday, marking a second consecutive night of ferocious attacks on the country, as Russia ramps up its bomba...

Russia’s attacks on Ukraine are escalating, both on the front lines and across urban centres.