via Al Jazeera – Breaking News, World News and Video from Al Jazeera — Ukraine hopes for more US support but faces uncertainty over Trump’s peace efforts and continued military aid.

Russian bombs killed 29 people at an aid point in a Zaporizhzhia school as an overnight missile strike hit Ukrainian power plants and a Kharkiv hospital.

A Russian drone killed two people including a 13-year-old girl near a school dormitory in the Vinnytsia region, as hackers sent false nuclear alerts through Ukraine's air raid app.

Nu verschillende burgers uit de Oekraïense stad Olesjky zijn gered, komen nieuwe getuigenissen naar buiten over de harde levensomstandigheden in een regio die al maanden is afgesloten van de buitenwer...

via NBC News Top Stories — A Trump diplomat called Putin “a humanitarian,” another in a recent flurry of overtures to the Russian leader. But it’s unclear whether blandishments will entice him to strike a deal.

via Robert Reich — Friends, “Russia, frankly, has been fine on Ukraine,” Trump told reporters Monday. “They haven’t been doing much,” he said — ignoring the Russian missiles and drones that have been targeting Kyiv in one of the worst bombardments of the war. By contrast, Trump said, “We’ve given a lot to Ukraine. They’ve given nothing to us.” In the last week, he or Musk (or both) have slowed or eliminated Ukraine’s access to Starlink satellite intelligence, leaving Ukraine without warning of Russian bombs. He’s

via US news | The Guardian — Russia wants America and China to decide Ukraine’s future without Kyiv. Europe must challenge this dangerous return to diplomacy of the strong for the strong Does Vladimir Putin know exactly how to play Donald Trump? The history of chummy phone calls, high-profile meetings and attempts to bring Russia in from the cold certainly suggests that Moscow’s thuggish ruler has a hold on this American president. If Mr Trump agrees to negotiate Ukraine’s future with Mr Putin and China’s Xi Jinping without

Olechky is the exact blueprint of Russian peace: a besieged ghost town on the Dnipro where nearly 2,000 civilians are held as living shields, trapped between deliberate starvation and re-mined escape ...