Above all from the United States, whose signals Russia truly pays attention to," Zelensky said in an X post on Friday. "Russia must receive signals that it is its obligation to focus on diplomacy, and must feel consequences every time it again focuses on killings and the destruction of infrastructure.

US President Donald Trump said he supports a new package of sanctions against Russia over its war in Ukraine but hopes the measures will not have to be used. "I support it," Trump told US broadcaster Fox News in an interview published on Thursday,

Russia used the Oreshnik hypersonic missile to attack Ukraine, weeks after an alleged assassination attempt targeting Vladimir Putin, marking a new escalation in the Russia-Ukraine war.

NATO allies in the Coalition of the Willing are planning security guarantees for Ukraine once Russia's war is over.

People will be more willing to return if Ukraine is able to regain most of the territory seized by Russia since 2014, Hladun suggests. But anything short of that could leave Ukrainians feeling vulnerable as it would be considered a temporary ceasefire rather than a complete end of hostilities.

U.S. seizure of Russian tanker marks rare escalation in sanctions enforcement against "dark fleet," but experts say move unlikely to trigger confrontation.

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine's capital, setting apartment blocks alight and killing at least four people, Kyiv's mayor said Friday after Moscow rejected the latest post-war peacekeeping plan.