It was already hard to imagine a breakthrough emerging from the direct talks between Russia and Ukraine set to be renewed in Istanbul on Monday.

Russia is still ready to return the bodies of Ukrainian soldiers killed in the war and is in talks with Kyiv on the subject, the Kremlin said on Tuesday. It said some of the bodies were still waiting inside refrigerated trucks for a handover.

At least 10 Ukrainian drones were shot down on their approach to Moscow overnight into Sunday morning, according to the city's mayor.

“Despite this,” he said before the talks began, “we will attempt to achieve at least some progress on the path toward peace.” It is not yet clear if Ukraine’s daring Sunday air raid will ...

But the extraordinary operation got a different response inside the White House: anger. Donald Trump has openly vented in recent weeks about Putin’s unwillingness to end the war. But since Sunday’s attack,

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday that a second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine was useful despite Kyiv's attempt to disrupt them by staging attacks Putin considered terrorism,

Russia claimed Sunday that its forces are for the first time pushing into the central Ukrainian region of Dnipropetrovsk, an area it has been trying to reach for months, in a move that could create new problems for Kyiv’s much-stretched forces.