Explosions in Moscow were heard overnight as air defences targeted Ukrainian drones. As a result of the air attack, a fire broke out in the Elma technopark in Zelenograd, 37 miles from Moscow, with one of its buildings damaged. According to Moscow Mayor Sergey Sobyanin, 33 drones were reportedly shot down.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz announced that the two countries would jointly produce long-range missiles, enabling strikes deep inside Russia.

Trump previously said his personal relationship with Putin would usher in peace for Ukraine. Now, he says Putin's gone "absolutely CRAZY!"

While world leaders bicker over the prospects for peace, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two is heating up fast.

And it meant Kuleba’s new rescue, a gray French bulldog named Marik, scooped from the wreckage of the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, would spend the next couple of years overhearing foreign policy discussions as he waddled around the office. Such an arrangement might seem unusual for a foreign minister — but not in wartime Ukraine.

WASHINGTON/MOSCOW/KYIV >> President Donald Trump again expressed frustration today with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the intensifying Ukraine conflict, a day after warning that Putin was “playing with fire” by resisting ceasefire talks while escalating drone and missile attacks.

Three open coffins, one adult-sized, one medium and one child-sized, lay inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in a northern Ukrainian city.

President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

The lengths troops and volunteers have gone to rescue dogs from the frontlines has spurred a cultural shift, transforming Ukraine — once criticized for its treatment of animals — into an extraordinarily dog-friendly country.