Zelenskiy's account, based on a report by Ukraine's top commander, contrasted with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin's address to senior Russian officers a day earlier in which he said Moscow's forces held the strategic initiative in all frontline sectors.

Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine has sparked a demographic crisis in Russia, fueled by military casualties, emigration, and a shrinking population with economic impacts.

A supply of U.S. Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine would help "push Russia back," the foreign minister of NATO ally Estonia told ABC News.

A top Russian Foreign Ministry official cautioned President Trump’s administration against giving Ukraine access to long-range Tomahawk missiles that could hit targets deep within Russia.

Ukraine has launched long-range drone and missile attacks on key Russian targets. Authorities said Monday that these included an ammunition plant, an oil terminal in Crimea and a weapons depot.

Moscow has stepped up attacks on Ukraine’s energy grid and gas production sites as the fourth winter of war approaches and as diplomatic efforts to end the fighting have stalled.

Tomahawks are powerful, long-range missiles that would give Ukraine a major boost in its ability to strike deep into Russia.

Moscow sent over 50 ballistic missiles and around 500 drones into nine regions across Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Sunday morning.

A top Russian diplomat said on Wednesday that the impetus to find a peace deal to end the fighting in Ukraine which emerged after a summit between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump in August had proven to be largely exhausted.

Russian regions are dramatically increasing the amount of money they pay to new military recruits as analysts say “ideological” recruitment campaigns are no longer enough to motivate people to fight in Ukraine.

At the specific request of then-Vice President Joe Biden, the CIA buried an embarrassing intelligence report detailing the poor view the Ukrainian government took of his diplomatic efforts and

K YIV, Ukraine—Ukraine’s power grid has weathered three winters of Russian bombardment during which engineers patched up substations under missile and drone fire and civilians spent days in the cold and dark as Moscow attempted to sap their resolve.