War in Ukraine

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On the ground

Q&A: Trump & King Charles, Russian oil and a lesson on drones

Your questions answered after the US president's UK state visit.
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  1. Arthur Polishchuk sits sideways-on to the camera and smiles. He is wearing a beige jacket that is zipped up. He has grey hair and a moustache.

  2. Ukrainian rescuers work at the site of a residential area struck by a rocket as a result of an overnight strike in a village near Kyiv, Ukraine.

  3. A line of people carrying bed frames up to a lorry, where they are being loaded through the back doors. There is a pile of wooden tables in the foreground. There are hedges and trees in the background and to the left.

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  5. A Ukrainian man held in Russia for three and a half years grins and hugs a woman on his release in August 2025

  6. Smoke rises over military training ground

  7. A Belarusian serviceman stands holding a rifle. There are a Belarusian and a Russian flag in the background

  8. A Romanian Air Force F-16 fighter jet flying through blue sky

  9. US President Donald Trump

  10. Poland's Secretary of State Marcin Bosacki holds a photo showing a house with a very damaged roof.

  11. Prince Harry poses for a photo with a Ukrainian soldier and a small girl.

  12. An older gentleman stands dressed in a brown checkered blazer and a dark shirt—his attire suggests a blend of tradition and practicality. His hands grip on the handlebars of what appears to be a bicycle. Behind him is a white utility vehicle with a metal cage structure at the front. It looks like it’s designed for transporting goods—or possibly animals. The background is lush with greenery—dense foliage and trees that suggest a countryside or semi-rural environment. The paved surface underfoot implies a transitional space: not quite wild, not fully urban.

  13. Smoke rises over the skyline in a town with several apartment blocks. The sky is pink and orange.

  14. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in Kyiv

  15. A police officer stands out of focus in the foreground. In the background, people wearing dark clothes and blue latex gloves walk in a hole in a damaged white house, the wooden roof beams exposed.

  16. Путин и дроны

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  18. Polish soldiers stand in front of a house destroyed with blown out roof

  19. Polish military and drone experts inspect the crash site of a Russian drone in the village of Wohyń, eastern Poland. Photo: 10 September 2025

  20. Stylised image showing a map of Ukraine overlaid with images of tanks and a soldier holding a shoulder launcher

  21. Latvian, Spanish and Nato flags flutter in front of an air defence system during military exercises on a field in Latvia.

  22. Russia's Vladimir Putin and US president Donald Trump

  23. People watching container ship arriving in the mouth of the harbour at Kochi, Kerala, India.