Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling over a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Trump has changed his mind about sending weapons to Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has renewed his call for direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end their ongoing war.

U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright said on Fox News on Tuesday that sanctioning Russian oil to end the Ukraine war is a "very real possibility."

Prosecutor General of Ukraine Ruslan Kravchenko has convened with representatives of the Group of Seven (G7) countries, where they discussed "special operations to neutralise Russian influence on NABU [National Anti-Corruption Bureau - ed.

THE LAND ITSELF BEARS THE SCARS OF WAR, WITH WHOLE AREAS IMPASSABLE BECAUSE OF LANDMINES. KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S CAPITOL BUREAU CHIEF, JOHN GREENWALD, TOOK AN INDEPENDENT TRIP THERE IN THE SPRING. AND HE SHOWS US THE IMPACTS OF THE SECOND PART OF HIS WOUNDS OF WAR SERIES.

Kyiv said the French fighter, one of six in its air force, was performing a flight mission but was not shot down by Russian fire.

Putin has spurned Zelensky’s previous offers of a face-to-face meeting to end Europe’s biggest conflict since World War II.

Ukraine said it would send a high-level negotiating team to Turkey peace talks with Russia, even as Moscow wrote off the talks before they had started.

Moscow on Tuesday once again downplayed expectations for a third round of peace talks with Ukraine and did not confirm the date for a meeting in Istanbul set for Wednesday by Ukraine. Moscow's delegation at the last round of talks with Ukraine was led by a hawkish historian and the current head of the Russian Union of Writers,