The Kremlin denied Tuesday that it was holding up President Donald Trump’s latest push to end the war in Ukraine, and insisted it had not changed its demands ahead of possible talks. Trump had announced that Russia and the United States' top diplomats would meet this week, with his own summit with Vladimir Putin to follow in Budapest, Hungary.

Russian motorists face chaos at the gas pump as Ukrainian attacks disrupt the country's oil refining capacity.

Ukraine is still finding thousands of foreign-made parts in Russian weapons over three and a half years into the war.

Russia’s war in Ukraine has sparked a demographic crisis and labor shortage, fueled by military casualties, emigration, and a shrinking population with economic impacts.

Donald Trump is reportedly ‘sick’ of being presented with maps of Ukraine’s battlefronts. The problem may be he and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy are looking at different things.

Zelenskyy said Russia fired 496 strike drones and 53 missiles in one night, and they had 102,785 foreign-made components, including from the US.

VINSKI, Estonia (AP) — Estonia is extending a fence along its border with Russia and building anti-tank ditches and bunkers in preparation for a potential conflict with Moscow. But those defenses won’t guard against the threat that Estonia and its NATO allies face from Russian drones and electronic warfare.

Direct conflict between Russia and NATO was once unthinkable, but preparations and defense spending have been stepped up in nervous Baltic states.

Russia’s Kirov-class nuclear battlecruiser Admiral Nakhimov has finally returned to sea after a massive, two-decade-long refit costing roughly $2.5 billion. -Upgraded with hypersonic Zircon missiles and modern air defenses,