U.S. President Donald Trump said that a sticking point in the prospects of talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky is the level of enmity between them. Trump suggested that he would have to be an intermediary for the leaders of Russia and Ukraine because they "hate each other so much they almost can't talk.

Ukraine is struggling to defend itself against the growing number of attack drones that Moscow has started using in its onslaughts.

The Zapad-2025 military drills come just days after Poland accused Moscow of violating its air space with a drone incursion.

The United States has stated at a UN Security Council meeting that Moscow had violated international law and the UN Charter when Russian drones entered Polish airspace. Source: Reuters Details: Acting US Ambassador to the UN Dorothy Shea stressed that Washington will "defend every inch of NATO territory" and it stands by its allies in the face of "these alarming airspace violations".

Meeting Trump’s demands would mark a major shift among the alliance, and there are major questions as to whether there would be collective interest in taking these steps.

US President Donald Trump has demanded that allies stop buying Russian oil before he moves on punishing Moscow, and told them to hit China with tariffs.- In a Truth Social post over the weekend, Trump said he would impose "major sanctions" on Moscow if all NATO countries stopped buying Russian oil.

A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck early Saturday near the east coast of Russia’s Kamchatka region, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The quake’s epicenter was 69.3 miles east of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky,

A Ukrainian drone attack killed two women in the village of Golovchino in Russia’s Belgorod region, Russia’s state TASS news agency reports. A man who was seriously injured in a Ukrainian drone attack in Russia’s Belgorod region in April has died in hospital, TASS reports.