Russia and Ukraine traded blame on Friday over an attack on a gas metering station that lies in Russia’s Kursk region, just a few hundred meters from their shared border.

Russia on Friday accused Ukraine of blowing up a major Russian gas pumping station in the Kursk region in what it called "an act of terrorism."

Russia inflicted unimaginable suffering on millions of Ukrainian children and violated their rights since its full scale invasion of Ukraine begun in 2022, a new report by the United Nations Human Rights Office said on Friday.

The United Nations Human Rights Office on Friday condemned what it called unimaginable suffering of millions of Ukrainian children in the hands of Russia, accusing it of violating their rights since its full scale invasion of Ukraine began in 2022.