During his meeting with a government team, Zelenskiy also ordered a continued increase in drone production and sought to ensure that domestically produced weapons and ammunition cover about 50% of the army's needs. The Reuters Daily Briefing newsletter provides all the news you need to start your day. Sign up here.

It was supposed to fall more than a year ago, but Pokrovsk is still holding on, even as street fighting has erupted inside the city after Russian troops infiltrated.

President Trump refuses to waste time on an unproductive summit with Vladimir Putin, citing the need for a guaranteed Ukraine peace agreement before any meeting occurs.

The question of whether Ukraine should fight against or negotiate with an aggressor has been there since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. But more than three years after it launched its full-scale invasion, the war is entering a new phase, and that word has re-entered the global debate.

Western allies have frozen some $300 billion in Russian assets since the 2022 Ukraine invasion, the bulk of which is stuck at an obscure yet essential Brussels-headquartered financial clearinghouse called Euroclear Ltd.

Nearly one million hectares of land in Ukraine have gone up in smoke this year as the Russian invasion turns forests into battlefields and leaves nature badly scarred. The fires follow the front line,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Kyiv is working with its partners in the "Coalition of the Willing" to draw up a peace plan, including a ceasefire, to end the Russian war against Ukraine in a similar vein to U.S. President Donald Trump's 20-point framework for Gaza.

Ukraine is rushing to strengthen its positions in the strategic eastern transport hub of Pokrovsk as about 200 Russian troops have infiltrated the city in small groups, Kyiv's military said on Monday.