Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky’s chief of staff has hit out at Russian negotiators in Istanbul and said Moscow does not want peace, as he called for more sanctions.Monday's talks in Turkey ended after barely an hour,

Though the knock-on effects are unclear, some military commentators have called the strike Russia's "Pearl Harbor." Hopes for direct peace talks, which resumed Monday, remain low.

In an operation said to be 18 months in the planning, Ukraine conducted a devastating series of drone strikes against Russia air bases on Sunday.

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Two U.S. senators are warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling on peace while preparing a fresh military offensive against Ukraine.

Vladimir Putin has remained silent for over a day following a series of incidents in Russia. First, in the Bryansk and Kursk regions, railway bridges were blown up. Then, Russian strategic air force bases were subjected to an unprecedented strike by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Ukraine on Sunday committed a massive, "Pearl Harbor"-like drone strike on Russia so devastating that experts are expecting a furious reaction from Russian President Vladimir Putin. "We can expect a great deal of sound and fury from Moscow,

Sergei Chudinov, the second secretary of the Russian Foreign Ministry's Department of Linguistic Support and interpreter for Russian leader Vladimir Putin, was part of the Russian delegation at the negotiations in Istanbul,

However, Trump’s rhetoric surrounding Russia, traditionally sympathetic to Putin’s aims, has shifted in recent weeks as his attempts to end the war continue to be thwarted.At the weekend, Trump warned that if Putin threatened to conquer all of Ukraine he would bring about the “downfall” of Russia.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned President Donald Trump that Russian President Vladimir Putin was grabbing pieces of Ukraine all the way back in 2016.

An aide to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Vladimir Medinsky, claims he held a separate meeting with Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov in Istanbul, TASS reports. "There was a meeting. It played an important role in preparing the general negotiation session,