Trump's dispatch of the Army's top official to Ukraine was cast by the administration as a fresh approach to ending the conflict.

At least 26 people have been killed including three children in a Russian missile and drone attack that hit two blocks of flats in the western city of Ternopil, Ukrainian officials say.

Ukrainian officials say a missile and drone attack killed dozens, right as the U.S. Army secretary arrived to push for peace talks.

Another 40 people were wounded in the overnight strikes on Ukraine that targeted energy and transport infrastructure, forcing emergency power cuts in a number of regions.

Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations for the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the war.

Poland scrambled fighter jets in its airspace and closed two airports Wednesday morning as Russia carried out a combined missile and drone attack across most of Ukraine.

Ukraine has not previously stated openly that it uses the advanced U.S.-provided ballistic missile systems on targets inside Russia.

Russia’s repressive justice machine has taken a break from its usual diet of intellectuals, opposition politicians and lgbt activists, and turned inwards. In recent weeks the regime’s own war propagandists—often called “Z-bloggers”,