Cuba to pardon more than 2,000 prisoners as US eases fuel blockade

Ukraine has in recent days intensified drone attacks on ports and refineries in Russia’s Leningrad region on the Baltic Sea. Yet Kyiv’s strategy of trying to stop Moscow from reaping the benefits of oil disruption in the Middle East doesn’t come without significant risk.

One crew member of a US fighter jet downed over Iran has been rescued and an operation to find another is still underway, according to US and Israeli media. Follow DW for more.

Drone footage from Israel shows damage to a factory in Petah Tikva from debris from an intercepted Iranian missile.

The request for defence spending is the largest in decades and accompanies cuts to domestic programmes.