Ahead of possible ceasefire talks in Istanbul, Russia is preparing to launch a large-scale summer offensive against Ukraine. Russian drone production drives heavy strikes: Russia struck Ukraine with approximately 2,

The war in Ukraine could escalate into a direct confrontation between the U.S. and Russia, according to the Pentagon. General Gregory Guillot, the head of the U.S. Northern Command (USNORTHCOM) and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) issued the warning to the U.S. Senate Armed Services Committee.

If Ukraine’s military resistance to Russia’s full-scale invasion stunned the world, its economic resilience in the face of a larger, better-equipped enemy is a lesser-known story of the war. A combination of rapid state expansion,

Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhya Nuclear Power Plant (ZNPP) has for more than a week relied on a single power line to supply the electricity it needs for essential nuclear safety functions, with the military conflict hampering efforts to restore the connection to its back-up line,

"It's a mess," Oleksandr Merezhko, the chair of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek.

Holding up the assistance for Kyiv had been discussed at that meeting, but Trump did not give any instruction to that effect.

The situation on the Ukrainian-Hungarian border remains stable, with no unusual incidents observed. — Ukrinform.

Amid reports that a U.S. peace proposal might include recognizing Moscow's illegal annexation of Crimea, President Donald Trump denied Ukraine was being pressured to accept the move — while also asserting Ukraine had given up the peninsula in 2014 "without firing a shot.

During WWII, Britain’s Bletchley Park became a hub of critical wartime intelligence. By 1945, women made up around 75 percent of its 10,000-strong workforce. They worked on codebreaking, data analysis, and machine operation—helping to decrypt German military communications. Their efforts helped to shorten the war by up to two years.

Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's team.