Ukraine and Russia are "closer to peace" than at any time in almost four years, it has been claimed – though a top European leader still warned againt Vladimir Putin's plans to take on the West. Sir Keir Starmer today joins emergency talks in Berlin aimed at ending the debilitating war.

Ukraine said it hit a major oil refinery and an oil depot in Russia as US President Donald Trump dispatched envoys to Berlin for another round of talks on how to end the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started in 2022.

European leaders are expected to cement support for Ukraine Monday as it faces Washington’s pressure to swiftly accept a U.S.-brokered peace deal. Peace talks between U.S. envoys and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy,

Russia's central bank says it is suing Belgium's Euroclear in court following an EU bid to use Russian assets to aid Ukraine.

A drone attack in Russia's Saratov region has killed at least two people and damaged a residential building. Local authorities reported the incident on Saturday.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

Zelenskyy's remarks suggest he will not bend to pressure from Russian President Vladimir Putin or President Trump.

A Ukrainian peace plan, sent this week to Washington, pushes back against President Trump’s proposal that Ukraine give up more land for peace, although Russia is unlikely to accept it.

A senior Kremlin official says Russian police and the National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if a peace settlement ends the war.