Vladimir Putin has issued a crushing update on the Russia-Ukraine war peace talks with Donald Trump, as the Kremlin said it is putting discussions "on pause"

Donald Trump has said that his patience with Vladimir Putin is “running out fast”, days after Russian drones breached Polish airspace in an act of provocation. Speaking to Fox News, the US president said: “It's sort of running out and running out fast.

With escalating airstrikes, the Russian leader appears determined to demonstrate that he will dictate the terms for any end to the war.

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.

Europe has "nowhere near enough volume to defend itself in the event of a major and protracted war," Matthew Savill told Newsweek.

The Russian Foreign Ministry denied targeting Poland and insisted its drone didn’t have the range to penetrate Poland’s sovereign airspace.

Russia said Friday that peace talks with Kyiv were on “pause” as President Volodymyr Zelensky warned that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin still wanted to capture the whole of Ukraine.

Amid rising tensions between NATO and Russia, Moscow and Belarus are holding military exercises starting on Friday that include "planning the use of nuclear weapons" and testing ballistic missiles, the state-run Tass news agency reported.

Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

NATO's supreme commander in Europe, U.S. Gen. Alexus Grynkewich on Friday launched a new operation, dubbed Eastern Sentry.