Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff has hit out at Russian negotiators in Istanbul and said Moscow does not want peace, as he called for more sanctions.Monday's talks in Turkey ended after barely an hour,

In an operation said to be 18 months in the planning, Ukraine conducted a devastating series of drone strikes against Russia air bases on Sunday.

It started with a daring Ukrainian drone attack on airfields stretching from Siberia in the east to Murmansk in the north that Ukraine claims destroyed 41 large planes, or about one-third of Russia’s strategic bomber fleet.

US President Donald Trump is “open” to meeting his Russian and Ukrainian counterparts in Turkey, the White House said, after the two sides failed on Monday to make headway towards an elusive ceasefire.

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Though the knock-on effects are unclear, some military commentators have called the strike Russia's "Pearl Harbor." Hopes for direct peace talks, which resumed Monday, remain low.

Ukraine on Sunday committed a massive, "Pearl Harbor"-like drone strike on Russia so devastating that experts are expecting a furious reaction from Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We can expect a great deal of sound and fury from Moscow,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned President Donald Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin was grabbing pieces of Ukraine all the way back in 2016.

An aide to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Medinsky, claims he held a separate meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov in Istanbul, TASS reports. "There was a meeting. It played an important role in preparing the general negotiation session,