Putin claims Russia is ready for new talks with Ukraine, calls occupied land historical Russia
He also cited unnamed genetic studies to claim Russians and Ukrainians are one people, a day after hosting a US envoy.
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“Now it’s your turn”: US envoys planned to show Moscow a refinery pause and a diesel deal, then ask for something back, a source tells Reuters
Ukraine’s part of that exchange was to stop striking Russia’s oil plants, a request Kushner repeated at the Miami meeting.
“Huge increase” in Russian assault groups trying to break through to Dobropillia, but they are using familiar tactics, staff sergeant says
But the Ukrainian military has already mined the main routes Russian forces could use to reach the city, according to the soldier.
Ukraine’s Third Army Corps won’t just hold Donetsk fortress cities. It’s building mission to pull civilians out of them
A dedicated fund is opening to pay for more trips, more often.
“You wanted our land. You lost your refineries and your fleet.”—Ukraine’s anniversary message to Russia
Zelenskyy added that the country that wanted Ukraine off the map has written itself out of the world's future agenda.
Ukrainian intelligence units will not help: Analyst warns that once Russia breaks into Sloviansk and Kramatorsk, reinforcing them only delays inevitable
Russian forces are 12 to 13 km from Sloviansk and Kramatorsk and could begin infiltrating the fortress-belt cities by late 2026.
Russia occupied Anton’s home when he was 10. At 18, he volunteered to fight against Ukraine
Many Ukrainian-born prisoners told the BBC they joined Russia’s army willingly. Others described forced conscription.
HUR: Russia seeks rest of Donetsk Oblast, not a peace deal, by year-end
HUR's deputy chief says Russia cannot form new units without mobilization after battlefield losses exceeded contract recruitment in June and July
For over 12 years, one man gave hundreds of Ukrainian families name and body to bury. He was killed exhuming bodies near front
Oleksii Yukov, who for a quarter-century recovered the bodies of the fallen so families could bury them, was killed by a fatal wound while exhuming bodies on the front line.
ISW: Russia’s long push toward Sloviansk gains no ground as Ukraine counterattacks
Its assaults across northern Donetsk Oblast produced no confirmed advances in the newest DC-based think tank's war assessment, an offensive now grinding into its fifth month.
Kostiantynivka: Why one city in Donbas matters so much that Putin lies about having captured it
Putin declared the city “liberated” while Ukrainian troops still held it, a lie aimed at the negotiating table, not the battlefield
“Three-day war,” now in year five: Russia has missed 15 of its own deadlines to seize Donetsk Oblast since the 2022, Zelenskyy says
Moscow still holds short of the region after more than four years of the all-out war, even as it demands all of it at the negotiating table.
Freezing the war along today’s lines is “the quickest way” to peace, Ukraine’s leader told Sky News
Zelenskyy insisted it is no concession, but a way to save children and bring soldiers home, paired with monitoring missions and allied guarantees.
British volunteers rescue 30 animals from front-line Kramatorsk
Ex-Royal Marine Pen Farthing's Nowzad team drove 13,000 km to pull 30 cats and dogs out of Kramatorsk as Russia strikes the Donbas city daily.
ISW: Russia’s grand territorial ambitions are divorced from battlefield reality
The think tank noted that Russian forces first infiltrated Kostiantynivka in October 2025 and have made no significant tactical gains in six months, even as Peskov restated Moscow's withdrawal demand on four oblasts.
Kremlin terms unchanged: Moscow repeats Putin’s 2024 demand for four Ukraine’s oblasts as peace push stalls
That is a demand for capitulation, not for peace.
Russia and “those sympathetic to it” will try to force Ukraine into capitulation this summer – source in Ukraine’s presidential circle
Russia demands control over Donbas, where 200,000 civilians still live.
Most Ukrainians reject giving up Donetsk Oblast to Russia even for security guarantees — KIIS survey
For Ukrainians, the real substance of "guarantees" matters more than empty promises.
Zelenskyy: only “Donetsk oblast, Luhansk oblast” appear in his negotiations, no “Donnyland” label
Zelenskyy responds to reports Ukrainian negotiators proposed "Donnyland" in US talks: the main thing is Donbas doesn't become "Putinland."
Zelenskyy: leaving Donbas means losing war’s strongest shield — its cities
Zelenskyy says withdrawing from the Donbas would be a strategic defeat for Ukraine, with urban defenses far stronger than any line built in open fields.