Putin has repeatedly falsely claimed to capture Ukrainian cities prematurely.

Kyiv resisted hitting tankers carrying Russian oil—until now.

Dressed head to toe in army fatigues, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday received the news he had been awaiting for more than a year: Russia had taken over the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk.

Putin is expected to be briefed on the outcomes of Sunday's U.S.-Ukraine talks.

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday for high-stakes talks on ending the war in Ukraine.The meeting -- preceded by days of frenzied diplomacy from Florida to Geneva to Abu Dhabi -- comes as Washington said it was "very optimistic" about ending Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

At least three oil tankers have been hit by explosions in what appears to be a stepped up unilateral effort by Ukraine to sink Russia's sanctions-dodging oil sales.

Five hours of talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and top United States negotiators did not yield a breakthrough compromise on a possible Ukraine peace deal, a Kremlin aide said early Wednesday.

Vladimir Putin’s alleged secret daughter has apologized for her father’s war in Ukraine, after she was confronted in Paris by a Ukrainian journalist whose brother was killed in a recent Russian airstrike.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes that Russian ruler Vladimir Putin will not stop at Ukraine in his aggressive foreign policy. Source: Merz at a party congress of the Christian Social Union in Munich,