The midmorning strike hit as Ukrainians were celebrating Palm Sunday, officials said. It appeared to be the deadliest attack on civilians this year and came as the Trump administration pushes for a cease-fire.
Emergency workers at the site of a strike in Sumy, Ukraine, on Sunday. Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s interior minister, said the streets had been crowded with civilians out enjoying Palm Sunday.
Petro O. Poroshenko, who led the country before Volodymyr Zelensky, said that peace talks could be smoothed if opposition figures were included in the government.
The Republican president had just replaced his unpopular Democratic predecessor. A top issue for the new commander-in-chief: Ending a foreign war that had dragged on too long. Looking at the problem with fresh eyes, the Republican made a deal to stop the fighting. It wasn’t a glorious victory, but it wasn’t a defeat, either. Most of all, it was an end to the bloodshed, allowing Americans to refocus on peaceful pursuits back home.
The new Trump foreign policy team has brought a dizzying message to European allies on A.I., Ukraine and more. It has already left many angered and chagrined.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.
President Donald Trump announced that he will send Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, adding that the war between Ukraine and Russia "must and will end soon."
Russian forces targeted Ukraine's energy and gas infrastructure in a "massive" nighttime missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said Tuesday, as the almost three-year war rumbled on against a backdrop of renewed diplomatic efforts to end it.
The Kremlin freed Marc Fogel, a teacher held for more than three years on drug charges, in a deal negotiated by Steve Witkoff, President Trump’s Middle East envoy.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be "very dangerous" and asked for more discussions between Kyiv and Washington to develop a plan for a ceasefire.
At least 14 people were killed in Poltava, Ukrainian officials said, blaming Russia. Four died in Sudzha, a Russian town held by Ukraine, in a strike each country blamed on the other.
The mayor, Vitali Klitschko, who has had a tense relationship with President Volodymyr Zelensky, accused him of trying to usurp the powers of elected officials in the capital.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told an Italian newspaper last weekend that it was “absolutely stupid, illogical, and very irresponsible” for the leaders of his country to give up their nuclear weapons in the 1990s.
President Trump jabs at the Russian leader with threats; Vladimir Putin responds with flattery. But there are notable signals in their jousting, including a revived discussion about nuclear arms control.
President Donald Trump said on Thursday he would like to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin “immediately” to negotiate an end to the Ukraine war. Putin responded on Friday that the Ukraine war might have been avoided if the 2020 U.S. presidential election had not been “stolen” from Trump.
Russia says Ukraine shot down a military transport carrying 65 captured Ukrainians. Ukraine has not confirmed its role, identified the bodies it received, or said how it happened.
President Trump doubled down on the prospect of across-the-board tariffs in a video appearance to business executives and politicians gathered in Davos, Switzerland.
The high popularity that the Ukrainian president had in the early days of the Russian invasion, with an approval rating of about 90 percent, has dipped badly.
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