The trip is part of a series of diplomatic meetings by the Russian leader, and comes as Ukraine tries to shore up eroding Western support for its war effort.

‘We are out of money to support Ukraine in this fight,’ Office of Management and Budget Director Shalanda Young said in a letter to congressional leaders

Outnumbered and outgunned, one front-line soldier has given a sobering account of Ukraine's struggle to cling on to its foothold on the east bank of the vast Dnipro river.

Ruslan Finchuk was last seen under Russian fire. His unit told his wife he was dead. ‘He just disappeared.’

Ukraine's security service said on Saturday it had prevented former president Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country on grounds that Russia planned to exploit a planned meeting with Hungary's prime minister to hurt Ukrainian interests.

Thanks to Serhii, Ukrainian artillery conducted several accurate strikes, but more Russian soldiers continued to take up positions around him.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said defences must be quickly beefed up across the front line, after meeting commanders in some of the main pressure points in the south and east.

There may not be much the West either can or will do to help Ukraine

Ukraine said Tuesday it believed Russia had poisoned the wife of its military intelligence chief, in an apparent assassination attempt targeting the heart of Kyiv's leadership.

North Korea's ambassador made a rare appearance at the UN Security Council on Monday to defend his country's launch of a spy satellite, as leader Kim Jong Un studied images including of the White House and Pentagon.

Hungary’s Viktor Orban says the West should accept “reality” and come up with a Plan B

How can you hold elections in a war?

Russia has launched its biggest drone attack on Kyiv since its full-scale invasion of Ukraine began last year, the city's mayor has said.

The Russian military has also said it neutralized some 18 unmanned Ukrainian aircraft during the preceding 24-hour period

As the war in Gaza deepens, some in the US and EU are asking whether they can go on funding what Ukraine’s top general admits is a stalemate.

President demands ‘new level of medical support for soldiers’ as questions mount over speed of counteroffensive against Russia

Russian authorities say a Ukrainian drone heading for Moscow was shot down by defence forces on Saturday.

Putin has withstood the West’s best efforts to reverse his invasion of Ukraine, and his hold on power is firm. The U.S. and its allies need a new strategy: containment.

The stopgap funding to avoid a government shutdown was approved by the House in a bipartisan vote

The Russian army, which has been attacking the city of Avdiivka in eastern Ukraine for a month, is still trying to surround it and seize a strategic factory, said a Ukrainian army spokesman on Friday. "Strong explosions" were heard in central Kyiv on Saturday, said Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. FRANCE 24 provides an update on the ongoing war in Ukraine on Saturday, November 11.