Ukraine says it used sea drones to strike two oil tankers that are part of Russia’s sanctioned shadow fleet and were a few dozen kilometres off the coast of Turkey.

The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.

A Putin ally has called for more detail in Trump's peace plan for Ukraine. Follow Newsweek's live coverage of the war.

A push by the Trump administration to end Russia's war on Ukraine appears to make headway, with Kyiv saying Zelenskyy could visit D.C. within days to finalize a deal.

President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are making progress in peace talks but called the conflict difficult to solve on Tuesday night.

Russian forces strafed Ukraine’s capital with a major missile barrage overnight, killing at least three people and causing widespread power outages, as the US ramps up pressure on President Volodymyr Zelenskiy to agree to concessions in the almost four-year-old war.

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

Europe is considering seizing billions in Russian assets to support Ukraine, as proposed by U.S. President Donald Trump.