President Vladimir Putin has said Russia will achieve all its objectives by force if Ukraine does not agree to a deal. "It seems to me that if common sense prevails, it will be possible to agree on an acceptable solution to end this conflict," Putin said. "If not, then we will have to resolve all our tasks militarily."

On September 3, Ukraine reported at least one person killed and five others wounded after an overnight air strike involving 526 projectiles. Ukraine’s Air Force intercepted and jammed 430 drones along with 21 of 24 missiles.

President Donald Trump has been flamed live on air for letting Vladimir Putin ignore him over Ukraine seven times by a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Senator Jeanne Shaheen,

Now almost three weeks after his high-stakes Alaskan summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress on peace.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has warned that Friday's meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin "will not achieve anything."

Air raid alerts sounded for hours across Ukraine, with explosions heard in nine of its 24 regions, from Kyiv to Lviv and Volyn in the west, Ukrainian officials and media said.

The Ukrainian president is to meet in person with Emmanuel Macron, the president of France, as well as the prime ministers of Poland and the Netherlands. Sir Keir Starmer and Friedrich Merz, the German chancellor, are also set to attend the meeting via video link.

Since the start of the full-scale war, Russia has not captured a single regional capital of Ukraine, while losing more than 1 million troops. This was stated by Ukraine foreign ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi,