President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that large-scale Russian attacks overnight in various parts of Ukraine showed Moscow was avoiding negotiations about ending the more than three-year-old war.

Vladimir Putin is still demanding that Ukraine withdraw from the entire Donbas region despite Volodymyr Zelensky refusing to give up Ukrainian-held territory, sources close to the Kremlin have said.

Russia struck an American business with cruise missiles overnight in one of the largest aerial attacks of the war so far, Ukraine has said.

Russian troops currently control about 20% of Ukrainian territory, but the Ukrainian constitution forbids giving up territory or trading land.

The second Oval Office meeting in six months between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy went off smoothly, in sharp contrast to their disastrous encounter in February.

Last month was the deadliest since Putin launched his full-scale war on Ukraine three and a half years ago. In July alone, 286 civilians were killed and another 1,388, according to official data.

Stephen A. Smith argued that Democratic presidents Biden, Obama and Clinton are responsible for the Russia-Ukraine war breaking out, not Trump, during his podcast on Monday.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has honored soldiers who aided Russia in its war against Ukraine, awarding them the title of

A new pilot program with 100 preschools will trial the "Converations about Important Things" series that is officially tailored to kids aged 3 to 7.

At a ceremony in Pyongyang, Kim Jong Un praised the overseas troops and said their participation demonstrated "the power of the heroic (North Korean) army."