War in Ukraine

The missile strike Sunday was one of the deadliest single attacks on Ukraine this year, as diplomatic efforts led by the U.S. have yielded few results.

Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg appeared to suggest in an interview that Ukraine could be divided like Berlin after World War II.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff met in St. Petersburg with his Russian counterpart, while Ukraine's NATO allies pledged an additional $23 billion to Kyiv's war effort.

The meeting in Istanbul followed initial talks in February after the war in Ukraine triggered the biggest confrontation between Moscow and the West since the depths of the Cold War.

Ksenia Karelina, a Russian American who lived in Los Angeles, spent over a year in prison after she donated to a charity that sends aid to Ukraine, a legal group said.

Ex-MI6 head Richard Dearlove warned Trump that rushing into a truce and giving Russia concessions could pose grave danger to the West.

The Ukrainian president said his forces have already captured two Chinese nationals fighting for the Russian army.

Ksenia Karelina “is on a plane back home to the United States,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X.

The Ukrainian president said he had instructed his Foreign Affairs Ministry to immediately contact Beijing and find out “how China is going to react to this.”

Ukrainian troops remain in neighboring Russian regions eight months after a cross-border incursion, though Russian forces recaptured much lost territory.

Staff Sgt. Gordon Black was imprisoned last year after he traveled to the port city of Vladivostok to see a woman he was romantically involved with.