The Trump administration has been quietly hammering out a new peace plan with Russia to end its war with Ukraine, a person familiar with the talks told CNN.

An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track on a route to Ukraine was an “unprecedented act of sabotage,” Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday.

Ukraine has asked the Vatican to formalize its role facilitating negotiations for the return of Ukrainian children and civilians taken by Russia during the war.

A Russian national, now in Azerbaijan, is suspected of coordinating a 2024 parcel plot targeting air cargo planes in Europe.

Russia is feeling the pinch from President Donald Trump’s latest sanctions, as world energy markets show the new prohibitions on Rosneft and Lukoil are having some effect.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy plans to visit Turkey this week to revive talks on ending Russia's invasion, which began nearly four years ago.

An accident occurred on an underground section of a gas pipeline in Russia's Omsk region, the regional governor, Vitaly Khotsenko, said on Tuesday. Emergency services were dealing with the incident, Khotsenko said on the Telegram messaging app.

Russia’s repressive justice machine has taken a break from its usual diet of intellectuals, opposition politicians and lgbt activists, and turned inwards. In recent weeks the regime’s own war propagandists—often called “Z-bloggers”,