A Russian strike in western Ukraine on Wednesday killed at least 25 people including three children, ripping the top floors off a block of flats, as an attempt by President Volodymyr Zelensky to revive the peace process with talks in Turkey fell flat.

US President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff did not travel to Turkey and Zelensky walked away from talks he had hoped would "reinvigorate" diplomacy with little to show.

The attack on the city of Ternopil was the deadliest for weeks and the worst in the west of the country -- far from the front line -- since Moscow invaded in 2022.

AFP saw dozens of rescuers searching through rubble after cruise missiles slammed into apartment blocks, using cranes to get to the destroyed building. Thick grey smoke engulfed the streets just after explos

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