The Kremlin is weighing a full diesel-export ban as drone strikes deep inside Russia turn a battlefield tactic into a problem at the pump.

Nearly 200 drones were downed over Moscow as Kyiv hit the Gazprom Neft refinery again, and Zelensky said it is time the war ended.

With the Iran war cooling, the leaders meeting in Evian put Ukraine back at the center and pointed the next round of pressure at Russia's energy exports.

Flames hit the roof of the Assumption Cathedral at the 11th-century UNESCO site as Russia struck Kyiv overnight, the mayor said, with the casualty count still rising.

After Hungary lifted its two-year veto, the 27 EU states agreed to open the first cluster of accession talks with Ukraine and Moldova in Luxembourg on 15 June.

Rationed to 20 liters a week and watching pumps run empty, Russian-occupied Crimea is living through its worst fuel crisis since 2014 as Ukrainian drones close the peninsula's supply routes one by one.