Volodymyr Zelensky previously challenged the Russian president to meet him in Istanbul for direct talks earlier this month, a dare shunned by Putin

A Russian drone attack on a bus in northeastern Ukraine killed at least nine people and injured seven others, Ukrainian officials said Saturday, just hours after the two countries met for the first direct peace talk in three years.

Russia is amassing thousands of troops at the border with Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, the Ukrainian president said, amid reports from the Ukrainian military that Moscow may be preparing new attacks on Kharkiv.

A Ukrainian official says Russian forces have taken over four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region.

Russia has massed more than 50,000 troops, including some of its best forces, near Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region, but Kyiv has taken steps to prevent them from conducting a large-scale offensive,

May 26, russian occupiers hit civilians with cluster munitions. One person was killed, another was injured.It was reported by the Sumy Regional Military

According to the investigation, on May 28, at about 15:20, the occupiers dropped, according to preliminary data, 4 guided aerial bombs on the civilian infrastructure of the Esman community of Shostka district. “As a result, a 74-year-old woman died in her own home,” the report says.

Russian forces have captured four villages in Ukraine's Sumy region near the Russian border. This action is part of an attempt to establish a 'buffer zone' on Ukrainian territory. The governor of the region,

A family and pension-aged women were among the victims of a strike by a Russian Lancet attack drone on Saturday, say local authorities and President Zelensky.

Zelensky this week flagged Kyiv had intelligence Russia was planning a fresh offensive rather than pursuing a ceasefire