It was already hard to imagine a breakthrough emerging from the direct talks between Russia and Ukraine set to be renewed in Istanbul on Monday.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

Kyiv says bodies of 1,212 servicemen were returned to Ukraine, while Moscow later confirmed receiving bodies of 27 of its soldiers - Anadolu Ajansı

Russian forces targeted regions throughout Ukraine with at least 479 attack drones, marking one of the largest such overnight aerial strikes of the war, Ukraine's air force said Monday. "According to preliminary data,

Russian negotiators told the Ukrainian delegation directly that their so-called "peace memorandum" is an ultimatum Kyiv cannot accept, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Hungarian news outlet Valasz Online published on June 10.

President Donald Trump and Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, will meet Thursday at the White House to talk about the ongoing war in Ukraine.