Russian President Vladimir Putin will agree to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy only if Kyiv surrenders first, Ukraine's First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsia said in an interview with The Kyiv Independent.

Ukraine's air force says that Russia has fired a record 728 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine overnight as well as 13 missiles.

The Russian leader is convinced that Moscow’s battlefield superiority is growing, and that Ukraine’s defenses may collapse in the coming months, according to people close to the Kremlin.

Russia’s war against Ukraine has continued to escalate despite frequent appeals from the White House to reach a deal to bring the war to an end.

In typically brash tones, the US leader announced the move while decrying the ‘bullsh-t thrown at us by Putin’.

Mr Putin’s war against Ukraine inadvertently led to an end to the hitherto intractable conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, which is now struggling to break free of Russia’s grip and make peace with Turkey.

The demand by Sergey Lavrov, the foreign minister of the aggressor country, to enshrine “denazification” in the peace agreement demonstrates that Russia rejects peace efforts and resorts to ultimatums in 2022.

For a fleeting moment, Ukraine’s conflict may have come full circle. In the past 48 hours, US President Donald Trump has perhaps said his most forcefully direct words yet on arming Ukraine. And in the same period,

As Russia seeks to overwhelm Ukraine’s air defences, the US has resumed deliveries of some weapons including precision-guided rockets.

Lavrov stated that he reaffirmed the position previously articulated by Russian dictator Vladimir Putin, including during a July 3 conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump. He also claimed to have provided Rubio with a “compilation of quotes” from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other Ukrainian officials allegedly calling for the