At least three oil tankers have been hit by explosions in what appears to be a stepped up unilateral effort by Ukraine to sink Russia's sanctions-dodging oil sales.

After the latest restriction on the internet, officials describe receiving “many” letters from children wanting access to the game-creation platform restored.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday following a report from the head of Kyiv's foreign intelligence service that Russia and China were taking steps to intensify cooperation. Zelenskiy said the steps involved shifts by Russia to give up aspects of its sovereignty to Beijing.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

Some Danes say they are worried about security because of what they see as the growing threat from Russia and concerns over the reliability of the Trump White House as an ally.

In a speech in Berlin, Rutte said too many allies of the military alliance did not feel the urgency of Russia's threat in Europe and that they must rapidly increase defence spending and production to prevent a war on the scale of that seen by past generations.

Zelensky has responded to the mounting pressure, reiterating that Ukraine will not concede land to its “aggressor.”

Roblox, the California-based platform that allows users to create and share their own games, stopped working for Russian users on Dec. 3.

Russia, the US and UK are among the cheapest countries in the world to create fake online accounts, according to the first tool created to track a key component of the digital “manipulation economy”.