Republican Senator John Kennedy leveled harsh criticism at Russian President Vladimir Putin, accusing him of failing to approach peace talks with seriousness in an interview with Fox News. "I think he thinks we're afraid of him,

US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held crunch war talks in the heart of the Vatican minutes before the start of the funeral of Pope Francis on Saturday, as the White House mounts an increasingly urgent push to strike a peace deal in Ukraine.

The US president says he fears the Russian leader is "tapping me along" given Moscow's strikes on Kyiv earlier this week.

The General Staff of the Ukrainian Armed Forces denied Russian President Vladimir Putin's claim over the weekend that Russian forces had fully retaken the Kursk region, where Ukraine launched an offensive last year.

Russian President Vladimir Putin thanked North Korean troops for fighting Ukrainian forces in Russia’s Kursk region, after North Korea on Monday confirmed the deployment for the first time. In a statement Monday from the Kremlin,