Brendan Cole

The Ukrainian president seemed to disparage Trump's envoy as he spoke about the ceasefire deal announced this week.

Southern European countries fear increased military spending will increase debt, while Baltic states are boosting defense budgets.

France is cautioning that travelers are now required to declare their gender assigned at birth when completing visa or ESTA applications.

The Kyiv International Institute of Sociology (KIIS) survey found three-quarters of Ukrainians backed a 30-day ceasefire.

Ukrainian forces have seized the settlement of Nadiya, according to the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) think tank.

The governor of Russia's central bank Elvira Nabiullina is in the firing line over her wartime monetary policies.

Yuriy Boyechko, founder of Hope for Ukraine, said Trump's envoy is repeating Kremlin rhetoric about the full-scale invasion.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said state assets would be privatized this year in a plan worth $1.2 billion.

President Donald Trump has pushed his Russian counterpart back into the international fold after three years of Putin being shunned by the West.

Israeli strikes on Gaza and U.S. attacks on Houthis in Yemen have added to regional instability.