Ukraine’s allies pledged their support to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at talks in Washington, though the details remain vague. According to one foreign policy analyst, the offers of Western security guarantees will strengthen Zelenskyy's position in future peace talks.
US President Donald Trump welcomed his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on August 18. Trump said that Russian President Vladimir Putin would be expecting a call soon and raised the possibility of a trilateral US-Ukraine-Russia meeting.
A meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ended in Alaska without clear steps toward Trump's stated goal: a cease-fire in Ukraine. While the summit appeared to yield no concrete results, one political observer said the meeting worked to Putin's advantage.
US President Donald Trump threatened Russia with "severe" tariffs if there is no cease-fire agreement between Kyiv and Moscow within 50 days. Trump spoke at a news conference with NATO leader Mark Rutte, where he also announced plans to supply military hardware to Ukraine, to be paid for by NATO.
An Iranian air strike on Beersheba, Israel, hit city on June 24, killing at least six people and damaging civilian structures. Israel has accused Iran of violating a cease-fire that had been announced, after 12 days of conflict.
Iran launched a fresh missile barrage at Israel on June 22, causing widespread damage in Tel Aviv. The attack came just after US President Donald Trump announced that the US military had struck three key nuclear facilities in Iran. Iran warned of "dangerous consequences" for the US attack.
Iran launched a barrage of missiles at Israel on June 19, hitting a hospital in the south of the country and residential buildings in Tel Aviv.
Listeners to RFE/RL's Radio Farda sent message from inside Iran as Israel and Iran launched fresh air strikes on each other for a third straight day.
There were emotional reunions as Ukraine and Russia exchanged several busloads of prisoners of war under the age of 25 on June 9. The exchange could last several days with 1,200 from each side crossing the border back to their country.
Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) shared a video on June 3 it described as a strike on the bridge linking mainland Russia with the occupied Crimean peninsula. The bridge, opened in 2018, is a key supply route and a symbol of Moscow's claims to Crimea, which it illegally annexed in 2014.
A day after a coordinated Ukrainian drone attack on long-range bombers deep inside Russian territory, military observers are calling it a major blow against Moscow. Ukrainian officials said the drones were smuggled into Russia on trucks and carried out strikes at close range, evading radar defenses.
Dozens of Russia's long-range bombers have been destroyed by drones smuggled into the country, claims Ukraine.
Russian officials say at least 8 people are dead after bridges collapsed causing train crashes in two separate regions of Russia bordering Ukraine.
Pope Francis, the first Jesuit and first Latin American to lead the Roman Catholic Church, has died at the age of 88.
US military officials say the bodies of three out of four missing US soldiers have been recovered at a training site in Lithuania. The search for the fourth soldier is still under way. The servicemen were taking part in military exercises on March 25 when their armored vehicle sank in a swamp.
US and Lithuanian forces are continuing to search for four US soldiers who went missing during NATO exercises in the Baltic country. A US Navy diving team was due to join the efforts after the soldiers' vehicle was located in a swamp, where the boggy terrain complicates efforts to recover it.
Iran's military released video on March 25 of officials touring what Iranian media called an "underground missile city." According to a defense researcher, Iran wants to signal its military strength to its rivals but is leaving the door open for deescalation.
Russians reacted cautiously to a proposed US-brokered cease-fire deal that Ukrainian officials accepted in talks in Saudi Arabia on March 11.
U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to a joint session of Congress on March 4. On the subject of Ukraine, Trump said President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had expressed his desire to come to the negotiating table and sign an agreement on access to minerals, despite a breakdown in talks last week.
On the first day of the Munich Security Conference, there was intense speculation about potential peace negotiations for Ukraine, according to RFE/RL correspondent Ray Furlong. But President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said such a plan could only happen with a consensus from the United States and Europe.
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