U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and his NATO counterparts meet in Turkey to prepare a pivotal summit of alliance leaders next month that will set the course for future European security as America focuses on challenges elsewhere.

US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will not attend what could be the first direct peace talks between Russia and Ukraine in three years, the Kremlin sending insteada group of experienced technocrats.

Ukraine, which was subject to a full-scale invasion in 2022 and saw Russia annex Crimea in 2014, says it needs security guarantees from the major powers - primarily the United States. It wants more than the 1994 Budapest Memorandum under which Russia,

Russian troops attacked an industrial infrastructure facility in Sumy, according to the acting mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobzar, and the Sumy Regional Military Administration. "The explosion that has just been heard in the city is the result of a Russian strike on an industrial infrastructure facility,

A Ukrainian military spokesperson said the deployment signals that Russian forces are facing some trouble in Chasiv Yar.

Operators from a unit of Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces eliminated an eight-member Russian assault group during a reconnaissance mission behind enemy lines. — Ukrinform.

A possible meeting between Ukraine and Russia on Thursday, May 15, should lead to good results. The bloodshed must be stopped, states US President Donald Trump during a conversation with journalists.