U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine deepened expectations that progress might soon be made on ending those countries’ more than three-year war, though frustration at the slow pace of negotiations and the absence of any significant breakthrough kept hopes low.

Putin has made 'a calculation' in the hope that Trump will say 'I'm fed up of this', former ambassador to Kyiv Simon Smith said

Kherson region. Late on May 18, Russian shelling of residential areas in Ukraine’s southern oblast, or region, of Kherson, killed a woman and injured three other people; earlier the same day, a man was killed in a drone strike on the village of Vesele on the Dnieper River.

The E.U. and U.K. have announced fresh sanctions against Russia’s secretive shipping network, in the latest bid to cut off funding for the Kremlin’s war machine.

RCP co-founder Tom Bevan commented on President Trump's statements about opening up trade with Russia after the Ukraine War comes to an end, Monday evening on FNC's "Special Report" panel. BRET BAIER,

Bridget Brink, an East Grand Rapids native and the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, recently resigned over policy disagreements with the Trump administration.

The gas and oil drilling platforms occupied by Russia since 2015 were targeted in Ukrainian sea and air assault.

HELSINKI (Reuters) -Finland will supply 90 million euros ($101.35 million) of ammunition to Ukraine by using proceeds from Russian financial assets frozen by the European Union after Moscow's full-scale invasion in 2022, the Finnish defence ministry said on Monday.