War in Ukraine

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Q&A: Russia's veto power, Nato's Article 5, and Putin's succession plan

Your questions answered on UN peacekeepers and Russian defence treaties
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  1. First Lady Melania Trump photographed during a press conference inside the White House

  2. Ukrainian emergencies personnel tackle a fire in a house in the Kyiv region after overnight Russian strikes

  3. Serhiy Beskrestnov is a middle-aged man wearing a khaki uniform. He is holding a drone with a wingspan of just under a metre and a half. It looks quite roughly put together - crudely constructed. Serhiy is looking down a barrel of the camera.

  4. Satellite image shows evidence of Russians using a BBC reporter's childhood home in southern Zaporizhzhia oblast

  5. A crater next to a sports complex building destroyed by what local authorities called a recent Ukrainian missile attack in the course of Russia-Ukraine conflict, in the settlement of Maslova Pristan in the Belgorod Region, Russia October 8, 2025

  6. A number of rescuers in protective clothing can be seen working around a destroyed house. They are surrounded by rubble and are clearing away bricks and other pieces of debris.

  7. A train hit by a drone strike sits damaged at the railway station in Shostka. A group of people stands on the central platform in the distance.

  8. A black and white portrait photo of Antoni Lallican

  9. A satellite being launched into the space by a Space X rocket on a blue clear day.

  10. An aerial view shows the oil tanker Boracay off the coast of Saint-Nazaire

  11. A composite image showing a Ukrainian pilot using a drone. He is imposed over an image of a n oil refinery from which smoke is rising after a blast.

  12. An aerial picture which shows a large tanker ship. It is white and burgundy. There are two masked soldiers in camouflage on the ship which is in the middle of the ocean. The name of the ship, Boracay, is clearly marked on it.

  13. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds a letter he received from Britain's Anne, Princess Royal, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, at St. Sophia's Cathedral in Kyiv, September 30, 2025.

  14. Danish Defense shows the gas leaking at Nord Stream 2 seen from the Danish F-16 interceptor on Bornholm, Denmark on September 27, 2022

  15. Ukrainian firefighters tackle a blaze at a house destroyed in a Russian drone attack in the village of Chernechchyna. Photo: 30 September 2025

  16. Andrii Andriichuk, a career criminal turned soldier, shows off his Knight's Cross medal

  17. Two people sit on a bench against the backdrop of a destroyed building

  18. An airport terminal with a black roof is pictured from above, with a series of black vehicles parked in front of the building. The airport control tower can be seen in the distance.

  19. Rescuers work among the rubble following a Russian strike on a residential area in Kyiv

  20. Firefighters stand amid smouldering rubble with several destroyed buildings in the background.

  21. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)

  22. Men sitting on coaches and others on carpet with their eyes blurred

  23. Prime Minister of Moldova Dorin Recean (C) attend a march to support the voting process at parliamentary elections in front of Parliament of Moldova in Chisinau

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