Russia-Ukraine war

President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Vladimir Putin in Moscow for ceasefire talks.

Ukraine used domestically produced Sea Baby naval drones to strike two Russian oil tankers in the Black Sea, an official from Ukraine’s security services said.

Russian drone and missile attacks in and around the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, killed at least three people in the early hours of Saturday, local officials said.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that “tremendous progress” has been made in the past week on efforts to wind down the Russia-Ukraine war.

European Union lawmakers voted on Tuesday to deepen integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc.

Multiple reports indicated on Tuesday that U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is holding meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi to discuss a U.S.-proposed end to the Ukraine invasion.

A Ukrainian delegation has agreed with the U.S. on the terms of a potential peace deal proposed by the Trump administration that will end the war with Russia, a U.S. official told ABC News on Tuesday.

The European counterproposal made during the Ukraine peace talks in Geneva on Sunday would reportedly allow Russia to be readmitted to the G8 alliance of major world economies and to place a cap on Ukraine’s military.

Sunday on ABC’s “This Week,” Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) said President Donald Trump’s proposed peace plan to end the Ukraine war was “almost entirely from the Russians.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio touched down in Geneva on Sunday morning for discussions on a 28-point plan for peace to end the Ukraine war, after Washington signalled flexibility on the controversial proposal.

European leaders are set to meet in South Africa on Saturday to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan to halt Russia’s war in Ukraine seen as favoring Moscow, while a top Ukrainian delegation prepares for direct talks with Washington.

France has agreed for the first time to provide Ukraine with fighter jets, as part of an deal struck between President Emmanuel Macron and President Volodymyr Zelensky in Paris on Monday.

A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely to be brokered before the spring, President Alexander Stubb of Finland said.

Ex-Zelensky ally Mindich accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement and kickback scheme involving Ukraine’s state nuclear energy company.

Ukrainian strikes disrupted power and heating to two major Russian cities near the Ukrainian border, local Russian officials reported Sunday.

A Russian drone slammed into a tower block in eastern Ukraine early on Saturday while many were sleeping, killing three and injuring 12 people, Ukrainian authorities reported.

President Donald Trump and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán will discuss trade, the Russia-Ukraine war, and energy prices during their bilateral meeting on Friday. 

At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Ukraine’s southwestern Odesa region, Ukrainian authorities said Sunday. Meanwhile, Russia and Ukraine continued to pummel each other’s infrastructure.

Ukrainian forces hit an important fuel pipeline in the Moscow region that supplies the Russian army, Ukraine’s military intelligence said Saturday, a claim that came amid a sustained Russian campaign of massive drone and missile attacks on Ukraine´s energy infrastructure.

Russia targeted Ukraine’s capital with drones, killing three people in their homes, authorities said early Sunday.

Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine overnight into Saturday killed at least four people and wounded 20, officials said, and prompted fresh pleas from Ukraine’s president for Western air defense systems.

European Union ministers approved plans to gradually phase out Russian gas imports by the start of 2028 to reduce reliance on Moscow amid criticism from U.S. President Donald Trump that the bloc has been funding both sides of the war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump meets with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte in the Oval Office on Wednesday, October 22.

Ukrainian drones overnight struck a major gas processing plant in southern Russia, sparking a fire, according to a Russian governor and the Ukrainian military.

Work has begun to repair the damaged power supply to Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the head of the U.N.’s nuclear watchdog said Saturday.

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump announced that he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that it is time for the killing in the Russia-Ukraine war to stop after sharing the same sentiment with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

President Donald Trump meets with Ukrainian Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday, October 17.

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin have agreed to meet in Budapest.

Estonia has temporarily closed access for its citizens to a road they normally use that passes through a stretch of Russian territory, after the interior minister reported on a group of Russian soldiers standing there, Estonia’s public broadcaster said Sunday.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s power grid overnight into Sunday, part of an ongoing campaign to cripple Ukrainian energy infrastructure before winter.

Power was restored to over 800,000 residents in Kyiv on Saturday, a day after Russia launched major attacks on the Ukrainian power grid that caused blackouts across much of the country, and European leaders agreed to proceed toward using hundreds of billions of frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine’s war effort.

WASHINGTON — First lady Melania Trump announced the reunification of eight Ukrainian children with their families after they had been taken and held in Russia, stating that the progress has come as a result of months of direct communication with President Vladimir Putin starting with a letter she wrote him in August.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has attempted to push blame onto Poland and the Baltic states for the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine as she attempts to salvage what remains of her political legacy and promote her book.

At least five civilians died after Russia launched drones, missiles and guided aerial bombs at Ukraine overnight into Sunday, in a major nighttime attack that officials there said targeted civilian infrastructure.

Russian drones struck a Ukrainian railway station on Saturday, killing one and wounding dozens, as Moscow stepped up strikes on Ukraine’s rail and power grids before the fourth winter since its all-out invasion.