The update was issued hours after Russia launched a wave of overnight attacks on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, with at least seven people killed in strikes that hit city buildings and energy infrastructure. A Ukrainian attack on southern Russia killed three people and damaged homes, authorities said.

This should be the subject of our negotiations with the American side … it’s one of the key questions,” Putin told reporters, as quoted by Interfax propaganda agency. He was responding to a question about Washington’s reported readiness to recognize Crimea and Donbas as part of Russia de facto,

After nearly four years of fiscal overreach caused by injecting trillions of rubles into the Russian economy, the Kremlin can no longer disguise its distress.

When the United States presented a peace plan to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week, the plan stated that it would “bring the war to a dignified end,” according to CBS News. What it should have stated was that the plan would “bring the war to a dignified end for Russia.”

A push by the Trump administration to end Russia's war on Ukraine appears to make headway, with Kyiv saying Zelenskyy could visit D.C. within days to finalize a deal.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has said that Russia has no veto power over Ukraine's accession to the Alliance and that only NATO member states can make decisions on this issue. Source: Mark Rutte in an interview with El País,

Russia rained missiles and drones on Kyiv overnight, killing six people, as frantic diplomatic efforts over a draft US plan to end the war intensified.

Zelensky's remarks come after a weekend of deliberation between Ukraine, U.S. officials over a U.S.-drafted peace plan.

Ukraine would be reduced to Russia ’s “tethered goat” if Trump’s peace plan is implemented, according to a former head of MI6. Sir Alex Younger said the US president’s proposal was "lopsided" in favour of Russia and would "almost guarantee" another invasion of Ukraine by Putin.

Igor Sechin, one of the most influential men in Russia's energy sector, said on Tuesday that sanctions imposed by the United States, European powers and their allies on Russia and China will trigger an economic crisis in the West.

Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker joins 'Fox & Friends' to discuss the tense peace negotiations between the U.S., Russia and Ukraine, and how the U.S. can apply more economic and military pressure on Russia to force a peace deal.