European Union officials reduced a planned loan after Hungary blocked an agreement that would have satisfied U.S. requirements for a joint loan to move forward.

The European Union will loan Ukraine up to €35 billion ($39 billion) to help rebuild its economy, the bloc’s executive arm announced Friday.

G7 leaders agreed in June to engineer a $50 billion loan to help Ukraine in its fight for survival. Interest earned on profits from Russia’s frozen central bank assets would be used as collateral, but distributing the loans has been slow.

Russia warned the West and Ukraine on Friday of "disastrous consequences" if Kyiv moved against close Russian ally Belarus, making clear it would intervene to defend a country where it has deployed tactical nuclear weapons.

A close ally of President Vladimir Putin warned Western governments on Thursday that a nuclear war would ensue if they gave the green light for Ukraine to use long-range Western weapons to strike targets deep inside Russia.

Ukrainian drones hit an ammunition depot inside Russia this week, the latest attack targeting military facilities deep within the country.

A guided Russian bomb has destroyed a home for the elderly in Ukraine and killed a 78-year-old woman. At the time of the bombing 300 people were in the Sumy Geriatric Boarding House. The building housed over 200 patients,

Key developments on Sept. Russian attack on retirement home in Sumy kills at least 1, injures 14 Russia redeploys 40,000 troops to Kursk Oblast as Kyiv's incursion continues, Zelensky says European Parliament backs Ukrainian strikes inside Russia,