Earlier this month, Trump said he had given Russia 50 days to reach a peace deal or face what he said would be "very severe" economic sanctions during a visit to Washington by NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte.

NATO member Poland has scrambled fighter jets after Russia's latest attack on Ukraine. The jets took to the skies as Vladimir Putin sent a wave of kamikaze drones and rockets at Kyiv

Fearful of Ukrainian drones, which have struck deep inside Russia in recent months, Vladimir Putin cancelled the Navy Day parade in St Petersburg and instead attended watered down ceremonies. This was the first time he had to cancel the parade.

Vladimir Putin's flagship carrier, Aeroflot, suffered a major blow today after a "massive hack" brought its operations to a halt. The cyberattack caused severe disruption, grounding hundreds of flights in what may be an even more damaging incident than the drone strikes by Ukraine that recently caused extended chaos at airports.

Vladimir Putin is tightening his grip on the online information space in Russia by implementing regular blackouts, according to the UK. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) reported last week that the Kremlin has been rolling out extensive cellular (mobile) internet blackouts across its own country.

Austria's Foreign Minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said in an interview with Die Welt that Trump was ready to "hand over" Crimea and parts of eastern Ukraine to Russian President Vladimir Putin. But Putin chose to keep fighting.

In his latest dramatic dispatch from the war-torn nation, Lord Ashcroft meets a personal trainer who fled Russia to join Ukraine's International Legion and hears why Codename Caesar is only too happy

Russia pummeled Ukraine overnight, killing 10 and injuring as many as 61 civilians, in part of a ramped up aerial campaign to advance strongman Vladimir Putin’s war into the Eastern European country.