Ukraine's top military commander, Oleksandr Syrskyi, said on Friday his forces were standing firm in defending a key city on the eastern front of the three-year war.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy named Yulia Svyrydenko, the former economy minister, as the country’s new head of government earlier this week.

US President Donald Trump’s 50-day pause ahead of possible secondary sanctions on Russia gifts the Kremlin a window to exploit the incremental gains of recent weeks in Ukraine’s east.

It used to be 24 hours,” Lavrov said of Trump’s pledge to end the Russia-Ukraine war within his first day in office. “It used to be 100 days. We have been through all of this and we really want to understand what motivates the president of the United States.

Three days earlier, the war had spilled across the breadth of Russia as the Ukrainians smuggled a fleet of cheap drones across the border and used them to attack several military airfields, damaging or destroying Russian warplanes worth billions of dollars.

Fedorov's office sports a huge video screen with dozens of live feeds from Ukrainian drones flying over the front lines. Together, the feeds provide a vivid glimpse into Ukraine's drone war, in which commanders claim flying robots now account for an estimated 70% of all Russian deaths and injuries.

Shahed-style drones are deadly systems that Russia has been using to strike Ukrainian cities for nearly three years.

President Donald Trump’s ultimatum to Russia to accept a peace deal in Ukraine within 50 days or face bruising sanctions has given the Kremlin extra time to pursue its summer offensive.

U.S. President Donald Trump's administration has moved Germany ahead of Switzerland for the next Patriot air-defense systems off the production line, which will allow Germany to send two Patriots it already has to Ukraine,