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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
U.S. Vice President JD Vance has acknowledged that the White House is actively considering proposals to sell Tomahawk missiles to European allies for use in Ukraine.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) – Russia unleashed a barrage of drones and missiles on Ukraine overnight into Sunday, killing at least four people, with the capital city of Kyiv suffering the heaviest assault. This is the first major bombardment since an
Ukrainian drones overnight struck one of Russia’s largest oil refineries, sparking a fire, according to Russian officials and Ukraine’s military.
A Russian glide bomb struck a village in eastern Ukraine as older people were lined up to receive their pensions on Tuesday, killing at least 21 and wounding nearly two dozen others, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and a regional official said.
Russia hit Ukraine’s capital with drone and missiles Sunday in the largest aerial attack on the country since the war began, killing at least two people and leaving smoke rising from the roof of a key government building.
Russia rejected the notion of Western security guarantees for Ukraine on Friday, after more than two dozen countries pledged to join a “reassurance” force to deploy in the wartorn country after any eventual peace deal with Moscow.
French President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday that 26 of Ukraine’s allies have pledged to deploy troops as a “reassurance force” for the war-torn country once fighting ends in the conflict with Russia.
U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met with European leaders in Paris on Thursday to discuss security guarantees for Ukraine, as allies seek to ensure long-term military support for the war-torn nation and secure continued American backing after the conflict ends.
Former speaker of the Ukrainian Parliament and leading figure in the EuroMaidan protests, Andriy Parubiy, has been shot and killed, President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed on Saturday.
Russia launched a mass attack on southern Ukraine, local officials said, two days after a rare airstrike on central Kyiv killed 23 and damaged European Union diplomatic offices as U.S.-led efforts to end Moscow’s three-year war on its neighbor staggered.
Russia accused Ukraine Sunday of launching drone attacks that sparked a fire at a nuclear power plant in its western Kursk region overnight, as Ukraine celebrated 34 years since its independence.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has reportedly offered to U.S. President Trump to host peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky in Budapest.
U.S. President Donald J. Trump confirmed reports that he called Russian President Putin during his meeting with European leaders and said that a sit down between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to end the war is being arranged.
European leaders descended on Washington, DC, on Monday in an expression of solidarity with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of peace talks with U.S. President Trump. However, critics noted that despite the bluster from Brussels, Europe sent more money to Russia for energy than it did to Kyiv in aid last year.
Ukrainian President Zelensky said on Sunday that it would be “impossible” for Kyiv to cede territory to Russia and reiterated his call for an immediate ceasefire.
European and NATO leaders will join Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his crucial meeting with President Donald Trump, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has reportedly demanded that Ukraine cede the entirety of the eastern Donbas region in exchange for a peace agreement.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Monday after a Russia-U.S. summit ended without an agreement to stop the fighting in Ukraine after 3 1/2 years.
British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and fellow European leaders praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his efforts to bring about an end to the war in Ukraine with a bilateral meeting with Vladimir Putin.
A meeting in Britain between U.S. Vice President JD Vance, UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy and representatives from Kyiv made “significant progress” towards ending the war in Ukraine.
A Ukrainian drone attack killed one person and wounded two more in Russia’s Nizhny Novgorod, the region’s governor said Monday, as fighting continued ahead of a planned summit meeting in which Russian President Vladimir Putin hopes to persuade his U.S. counterpart to back a peace deal locking in Moscow’s gains.
European leaders urged more “pressure” on Russia overnight Saturday, after the announcement of a Trump-Putin summit to end the war in Ukraine raised concern that an agreement would require Kyiv to cede swathes of territory.
Ukraine won’t give up land to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned early on Saturday, hours after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold a summit in a bid to end the war.
Multiple military and political officials in Ukraine, reportedly including a lawmaker from President Zelensky’s party, have been accused of corruption schemes to steal money intended for the war effort and bribery.
An overnight Ukrainian drone attack on an oil depot near Russia’s Black Sea resort of Sochi sparked a major fire, Russian officials said Sunday, as the two countries traded strikes.
Ukrainian drone attacks overnight into Saturday killed three people, Russian officials said Saturday.
