Earlier on Friday, Russia’s Ministry of Defence announced the capture of two villages on either side of Pokrovsk – Zvirove to the west and Novoekonomichne to the east. A third village – Novotoretske – near Pokrovsk was declared “liberated” by Moscow earlier this week.

It was early morning on July 4 when Gen Keith Kellogg’s phone was illuminated with a call from Poland. On the other end of the line was Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, with what could be one of the defining interventions of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

On the face of it, the US involvement in Ukraine bears little similarity to the 20-year Afghanistan war, not least because there are no American boots on the ground in Europe.

Russian strikes across Ukraine killed at least 12 civilians and injured more than 120 others. In the eastern Donetsk oblast, or province, systematic shelling and glide bombs killed six non-combatants and wounded 44 others.

Ukraine’s top military commander Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky called on President Trump to provide long-range missiles capable of attacking deep into Russia to cripple Moscow’s war machine.

Trump is showing signs of willingness to renew U.S. support Ukraine, Angela Stent writes in a guest commentary.

Focusing on all of those characteristics, however, is the wrong way to understand him, or even assess what he is doing. He is easy to caricature, and many have done so, turning him into a storybook villain reminiscent of J.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling over a ceasefire. Meanwhile, Trump has changed his mind about sending weapons to Ukraine.

U.S. President Donald Trump, dogged by questions about his ties to disgraced financier and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, arrived in Scotland on Friday for some golf and bilateral talks that could yield a trade deal with the European Union.