Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told ABC News that Russian forces were attacking Ukraine even before the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) launched the Spiderweb operation. He stated that all the subsequent Russian strikes were planned in advance.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is not interested in a ceasefire, but instead wants the "total defeat" of Ukraine, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told US broadcaster ABC News on Sunday. Only "hard pressure" from the United States and Europe could force Putin to back down,

U.S. President Donald Trump says he's spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and that the Russian leader told him “very strongly” that he will respond to Ukraine’s weekend drone attack on Russian airfields.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he understands Russian President Vladimir Putin "much better" than President Donald Trump does.

Donald Trump has claimed Ukraine gave Vladimir Putin “a reason to go in and bomb the hell” out of the beleaguered country this week.After enduring more than three years of Russian bombings, an invasion and the occupation of 18% of its territory,

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Ukrainian officials say at least five people, including a 1-year-old child, his mother and grandmother, were killed in a Russian drone strike on a northern Ukrainian overnight.

In their first call, Pope Leo emphasized dialogue with Putin about the Ukraine war, while the Kremlin leader claimed Kyiv was escalating the conflict after recent infrastructure attacks.

"It was a good conversation, but not a conversation that will lead to immediate Peace," President Trump posted on social media.

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin told him that Moscow would retaliate against Ukraine's major drone attack over the weekend, casting doubt that a peace deal to end the war could come soon.

Western military aid to Ukraine, economic pressure, and Russian battlefield losses could shift Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s perception of the war and potentially compel him to come to the negotiating table.