U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

President Trump on Thursday promised “interesting times ahead” as he raised the prospect of Ukraine launching an offensive against Russia, amid signs that the Kremlin could be slow-walking

Russia rains down 614 missiles and drones in massive overnight assault on Ukraine, hitting a US-owned company near NATO borders and raising questions about Putin's negotiation intentions.

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Russia's top military and political officials joined Putin in the closed city of Sarov, which houses the Russian Federal Nuclear Center, on Aug. 22.

The summits in Anchorage and Washington filled the family in the besieged city of Kharkiv with hope that peace would come at long last. Instead it was more drones.

Russia’s foreign minister says a meeting between the country’s two leaders will most likely not happen anytime soon, even as the White House promised a meeting between the two sides within weeks.

President Donald Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine on Monday that the United States would join Europe in providing security guarantees to Kyiv as part of a broader peace deal with Russia,