The Kremlin said on Thursday that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio's view that the Ukraine conflict is a proxy war between the United States and Russia is in line with Russian President Vladimir Putin's own assessment.

Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine in a major overnight attack, Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, as the Ukrainian president renewed his plea for a partial ceasefire at the end of a week in which the United States suspended military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv .

The economic sanctions and boycotts of Russian oil and gas must persist—and why Trump must set aside his pride and support Ukraine in its effort to stay a free nation.

The repositioning could be a prelude to a complete Ukrainian withdrawal from Kursk back to the relative safety of northern Ukraine. Shrugging off at least one raid by a Ukrainian

Russia has told Australia there will be "grave consequences" if it puts "boots on the ground" in Ukraine as part of a Western peacekeeping operation proposed by UK Prime Minister Kier Starmer.

Only about 20 percent of the military hardware in Ukraine comes from the United States, with 55 percent produced by Ukraine itself and 25 percent coming from Europe, according to estimates from the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI), a British defense think tank.