Vladimir Putin is convinced his country is strong enough to secure total victory in Ukraine. But the Russian leader is forgetting two crucial things about the current geographic dynamic.

Russia, however, has not taken kindly to Trump's threats. "President Trump's statements are perceived not as a signal for peace, but as a signal for the continuation of the war,"

Vladimir Putin’s conduct has prompted Donald Trump’s shift as Russia’s war effort in Ukraine has gotten only more aggressive.

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America. He is the author of Collisions: The Origins of the War in Ukraine and the New Global Instability.

After a phone call between Russian president Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, Russian forces launched a massive attack on Kyiv, emphasizes the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, Andrii Sybiha.

A pall of acrid smoke hung over Kyiv on Friday morning following a night of intensive Russian strikes - the hours of darkness once again punctuated by the staccato of air defence guns, buzz of drones and large explosions.

After his call with Putin, Trump said he did not think the Russian leader wanted a ceasefire or an end to the three-year-old conflict.

Russia pummeled Kyiv with the largest drone attack of the war, hours after President Donald Trump spoke to Russia's Vladimir Putin, officials said.

Keir Starmer, the British prime minister, and Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, are expected to promise today to have their nuclear arsenals work together if Europe is threatened. Private equity firms have entered the $40 billion youth sports industry. Their investments could raise costs for families.

Russia launched a major drone and missile strike on Kyiv, killing two and injuring more than a dozen, prompting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to call for additional funding for