Mr. Brooke has traveled to about 100 countries reporting for the New York Times, Bloomberg, and Voice of America. He reported from Russia for eight years and from Ukraine for six years, coming home in 2021.

Ukraine says Russia launched its biggest drone strike to date after Trump called Putin crazy for stepping up his offensive and "needlessly killing a lot of people."

Russian forces launched 114 drones and missiles at Ukraine. Some of the drones were jet-powered, according to the Air Force of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. On the night of May 31, the enemy launched a total of 114 air attack weapons.

President Volodymyr Zelensky said China has stopped selling drones to Ukraine and Western countries while continuing to supply them to Russia, Bloomberg reported on May 29.

Aiming to create a "buffer zone," Russian forces have seized villages near Sumy, Ukraine’s northern regional capital. As 50,000 Russian troops accumulate on Ukraine’s border, the Sumy region prepares for a renewed large-scale offensive. More than 200 settlements are under evacuation orders after Russia advanced deeper into Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine needs an initial 500 million euros ($566 million) to rebuild the most important infrastructure facilities at its Black Sea ports destroyed by constant Russian missile and drone attacks, a government minister said on Friday.

Russian drone attacks targeted Ukraine's northeastern Kharkiv and southern Odesa regions overnight. Meanwhile, the US envoy to Ukraine said that Russia's concern over NATO's eastward expansion was "fair.