The Kremlin blamed Ukraine for a car bomb that killed a senior Russian military officer near Moscow yesterday, hours before US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff was due to meet President Vladimir Putin in Moscow.
US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin yesterday in the Kremlin to tout Washington’s plan to settle the Ukraine conflict, a day after Donald Trump issued a direct appeal to the Russian president to halt his offensive.
Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff is due in Russia on Friday where he is expected to hold another round of ceasefire talks with Putin.
Trump tells Putin after a ‘massive’ Russian missile attack on Kyiv kills at least 10, injures more than 90
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday Russian forces were making a pretence of a one-day Easter ceasefire announced by President Vladimir Putin, continuing overnight attempts to inflict frontline losses on Ukraine.
Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a unilateral Easter ceasefire in Ukraine, ordering his forces to end hostilities at 6:00pm Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday until the end of Sunday.
Russia fired a fresh volley of missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight, wounding dozens of people, Kyiv said yesterday, as the United States warned it could end efforts to broker a ceasefire if it did not see progress soon.
President Volodymyr Zelensky yesterday warned that Moscow is increasing its aerial bombardment after Russia mounted a “massive” missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight, killing two people and wounding at least seven.
Ukraine said talks with the United States in Saudi Arabia began “very constructively” yesterday, with a partial ceasefire with Russia on the table hours after Kyiv conducted its largest drone attack on Moscow in three years of war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said yesterday ahead of talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia that Ukraine wants peace and Russia is the “only reason” that the war has dragged on.
Ukraine said yesterday that Russia launched over one hundred drones overnight, targeting the capital and several regions at a crucial point in the war as Washington has frozen aid supplies.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin “has no interest in peace”, the European Union’s foreign policy chief said yesterday, after overnight strikes by Moscow’s troops killed 14 people in Ukraine.
Russia launched a “massive” drone and missile attack on Ukrainian energy facilities early yesterday, just days after President Volodymyr Zelensky and European allies proposed that Moscow and Kyiv halt strikes on critical infrastructure.
A resident of Krasnodar, southwest Russia, has been sentenced to 15 years for passing information on the Russian Black Sea Fleet to Ukrainian intelligence, RIA Novosti news agency said yesterday.
European leaders yesterday said they would stand by Ukraine and spend more on defence in a world upended by Donald Trump’s reversal of US policies.
In an address to the nation, Macron said that the French were "legitimately worried" about the start of a "new era" after Trump began his second stint in the White House by reversing US policy on Ukraine and risking a historic rupture with Europe
Ukraine said yesterday its forces could hold their own on the battlefield as they fight Russian troops after US President Donald Trump paused military aid to Kyiv in the most dramatic step yet in his pivot towards closer ties with Russia.
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has told British media that a ceasefire without security guarantees for his country would not bring a lasting end to Russia’s invasion after allies called for a truce.
