Ukrainian troops fighting in eastern Ukraine are expressing doubts that a peace proposal currently being negotiated will prevent Russia from attacking their country again.

More than 70,000 women served in Ukraine’s military in 2025, a 20% increase compared with 2022, Ukraine’s Defense Ministry said.

The declaration, made in an interview published on Thursday in India Today, follows Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, which escalated an eight-year conflict between Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian forces across the Donbas, comprising the Donetsk and Luhansk regions.

Three Russian soldiers were sentenced to up to 12 years in prison on Monday for torturing and killing Russell Bentley, a 63-year-old U.S. national who had volunteered to fight for Russia against Ukraine.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s advisers and Ukrainian officials say they’ll meet for a third day of talks on Saturday after making progress on finding agreement on a security framework for postwar Ukraine.

NATO fighter jets were scrambled and air defense systems put on alert in Poland in response to Russia’s latest overnight drone and missile strikes in Ukraine.

President Vladimir Putin hailed what his commanders said was Russia's full capture of Pokrovsk in eastern Ukraine as an important victory, but the Ukrainian military said its forces still held the northern part of the city.

Russian forces have advanced on several fronts recently. President Vladimir V. Putin signaled after talks with U.S. officials that he was not budging from demands.

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump on Sunday claimed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “hasn’t read” a U.S-authored peace proposal aimed at ending the Russia-Ukraine war.

Yet a recent court ruling in Donetsk has sent four Russian soldiers to prison for murdering an American volunteer known as Russell Bentley, also called “Texas.” Four Men Found Guilty Bentley, 64, was a well-known figure in Donetsk,

New research has suggest Russia is rapidly making gains on the front line in Ukraine as talks to end the war continue to stall. The Institute for the Study of War, a US think tank said Vladimir Putin's troops are now gaining land at one of fastest rates since the war began almost four years ago.