Russian President Vladimir Putin has replaced the commander of Russia's ground forces, Army General Oleg Salyukov, 69, appointing him deputy secretary of the Security Council, according to a decree published on the Kremlin's website on Thursday.

Russian officials mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after Russian President Vladimir Putin ignored his demand of a face-to-face meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, where the first direct Russia-Ukraine talks in more than three years are due to take place.

Donald Trump says he and Vladimir Putin need to get together to solve the Ukraine war. Trump says he doesn't "believe anything's going to happen, whether you like it or not, until he and I get together.

Moscow’s massacres of Ukrainian civilians blew apart any semblance of good faith as Washington pushed for talks