Zelenskyy said he is confident that Kyiv and Washington could soon agree on key steps to end the war with Russia, as a Ukrainian delegation heads to the United States for fresh talks.

Nearly four years into Russia’s invasion, women here are increasingly taking on combat roles once reserved for men.

In his first public comments about the latest U.S. push for peace between Russia and Ukraine, the Russian leader described the plan as a list of questions requiring work.

Meetings in Switzerland. Talks in the United Arab Emirates. A possible Ukrainian presidential visit to the United States.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials sought to narrow the gaps between them on Monday over a plan to end the war in Ukraine, after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.

However, analysts warned that the past week’s boost to war-linked assets could quickly fade. Ukraine’s bonds have previously rallied on US peace overtures this year, such as the meeting between Trump and Putin in Alaska in August, only to drop back when it became clear that Kyiv and Moscow remained far apart.

In Russia, a major oil terminal near the port of Novorossiysk stopped operations Saturday after a strike by unmanned boats damaged one of its three mooring points, according to a statement from the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, which owns the terminal.

None of us really know what Zelenskyy is like operating solo, because he never has," Michael Bociurkiw, a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, told NBC News.