And it meant Kuleba’s new rescue, a gray French bulldog named Marik, scooped from the wreckage of the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, would spend the next couple of years overhearing foreign policy discussions as he waddled around the office. Such an arrangement might seem unusual for a foreign minister — but not in wartime Ukraine.

A Ukrainian intelligence chief said China is helping to supply Russian military production plants, and that they have data on 20 factories.

President Vladimir Putin's conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia, according to three Russian sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

Orban is widely seen as Russia's closest ally in the European Union, and his government has broken ranks with his European partners by maintaining trade and opposing sanctions on Russia, refusing to allow the transit of weapons, and comparing Ukraine to Afghanistan.

The U.S. president lashed out at the Kremlin on Tuesday as the White House continued to consider increasing sanctions against Russia.

There are "no longer any range restrictions on weapons delivered to Ukraine," Germany's new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Monday.

Ukraine is raising funds for Sky Sentinel automated turrets which combine heavy machine guns with precision pointing and smart software to counter drones at low cost.

Russia launched one of its largest aerial assaults of the war on Ukraine overnight, killing at least 12 and injuring dozens with a massive deployment of missiles and drones. According to Ukraine’s Air Force,