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Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has said Russian President Vladimir Putin hates him, and the feeling is mutual.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has declined to comment on whether the US will send Tomahawk long-range missiles to Kiev, following a meeting with US President Donald Trump in Washington.

Russian forces may have tested an upgraded glide bomb capable of striking targets up to 150km away, according to a military-focused Telegram channel.

Ukraine wants to go on the offensive against Russia, US President Donald Trump has said. Kiev’s forces remain on the backfoot across the front line, while Ukrainian officials have reported manpower shortages amid a mobilization campaign marked by violence and public resentment.

British intelligence services are directly involved in orchestrating Ukrainian attacks on internationally-owned energy sites in Russia and are plotting further operations against a key regional pipeline, Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Aleksandr Bortnikov has claimed.

Russia’s embassy in London warned Wednesday that new UK sanctions against Russian oil giants Rosneft and Lukoil are affecting energy markets, saying attempts to “strangle” Russia’s economy will ultimately backfire.

Ukraine is openly planning to use US-supplied long-range Tomahawk missiles to carry out “terrorist attacks” on Russia, Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said.

Western nations should prepare to continue bankrolling Ukraine ’s war effort against Russia for at least three more years, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said during a visit to London.

Hungary cannot meet its energy needs without Russian oil and gas and has no intention of abandoning supplies, Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto has said. Speaking at the Russian Energy Week forum in Moscow, Szijjarto stressed that Hungary’s energy security depends on existing supply routes and long-term contracts with Russian companies.

European NATO members should purchase more American-made weapons to sustain Ukraine ’s war effort against Russia, US War Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday ahead of a meeting of the bloc’s defense ministers.

Ukraine ’s Vladimir Zelensky has announced military rule in the key Black Sea port of Odessa, which serves as an important hub for the country in receiving weapons from its Western backers.

The Ukraine conflict is a primary issue on the agenda of the ongoing dialogue between Washington and Minsk, the head of the Belarusian security service (KGB), Ivan Tertel, has told journalists.

The battlefield situation for Kiev’s forces remains “difficult,” Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief Aleksandr Syrsky has admitted, as Russian troops continue to make advances along several sectors across the front line.

Moscow remains open to a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict but hostilities will continue for as long as Kiev continues to stall negotiations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said.

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Ukraine could cease to exist as a state if there is no diplomatic settlement to the conflict with Russia and Moscow’s forces continue to advance, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has warned.

European nations appear to be united in a collective anti-Russian frenzy, which precludes even the possibility of dialogue with Moscow, Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov has said.

US President Donald Trump has said he could talk to his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, about Washington’s threat to send long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine .

The US has been assisting Kiev in carrying out drone attacks on energy facilities inside Russia for the past several months, the Financial Times has reported, citing unnamed American and Ukrainian officials.

EU finance ministers have discussed the use of frozen Russian assets to fund a €140 billion loan to Ukraine at an ECOFIN meeting in Luxembourg. It would be repaid if Kiev receives ‘reparations’ from Moscow, European Commissioner for Economy and Productivity Valdis Dombrovskis has said.