A Russian strike on Red Cross vehicles in eastern Ukraine killed three people, the country's president Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday.
The transfer followed months of White House warnings to Tehran against sharing the deadly weapons.
In a statement on the Telegram app, the air force reported that air defense units were mobilized across 11 regions throughout Ukraine.
Giorgia Meloni reaffirmed backing for Ukraine after talks with Ukraine's president as he visited allies to press for more weapons to fight Russia
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin unveiled the package at a joint press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Ramstein Air Force Base in Germany.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky demanded quick results from his new top team after the biggest government reshuffle since Russia invaded his country in 2022.
The prospects of American-supplied missiles in Ukraine's war against Russia aren't the only things preparing for launch; U.S. military contractor Lockheed Martin Corp.'s stock price is also blasting off to new heights.
Dmytro Kuleba resigned as Ukraine's top diplomat on Wednesday and other changes are expected.
More than 40 people were killed and 180 injured in the attack.
Ivan Rossomakhin was recruited from prison in 2022, committed another killing while on leave in Russia and was sent back to the frontline.
Zelenskyy expressed gratitude to the Ukrainian troops who helped replenish the pool of prisoners for exchange.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Ukraine on Friday, officials said, weeks after Kyiv condemned him for hugging President Vladimir Putin during a visit to traditional ally Russia. New Delhi's foreign ministry said on Monday Modi will visit Poland on Thursday before travelling on to Ukraine the next day.
The biggest attack on Russian soil since World War II has rattled Russia and penetrated several kilometres into Russia's Kursk region. President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine now controls over 1,250 square kilometres (480 square miles) and 92 settlements.
Ukraine could soon unleash robot dogs on its front lines, replacing soldiers for perilous missions like spying on Russian trenches or detecting mines.
The attack on the Olenivka facility in the eastern Donetsk region overnight on July 29 two years ago left at least 50 Ukrainian prisoners dead and wounded at least 130, Kyiv says.
Russia stated that its military deployed MiG-29 and MiG-31 fighter jets, which identified the U.S. aircraft as B-52H strategic bombers.
The United States foiled a Russian plot earlier this year to assassinate the chief executive of a major German arms maker supplying weaponry to Ukraine, CNN reported on Thursday.
With relations between NATO on the one hand and China and Russia on the other at a low ebb, analysts believe that Beijing wanted to send the alliance a warning message with the timing of the drills.
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer indicated on Wednesday that Ukraine can use long-range missiles supplied by the UK to strike military targets in Russia during their war.
Ukraine is set for a fiery clash with Russia at the UN Security Council Tuesday after Kyiv's allies called for an emergency meeting in the wake of deadly strikes by Moscow.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Monday that world powers should help Russia and Ukraine re-start direct negotiations during a visit to Beijing branded a "peace mission" by the European leader.
Russian strikes on the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk killed five people and wounded dozens more on Monday, the governor of the Donetsk region said.