U.S. military commentators praised Ukraine's "remarkable" Trojan Horse-like use of wooden sheds as it bombed as deep into Russia as Siberia.

Officials from Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul on Monday failed to reach a ceasefire but agreed to exchange more prisoners.

A day after Ukraine launched an unprecedented drone attack on airbases inside Russia, the warring sides sat down for a second round of direct talks in Turkey.

Amid Ukraine's recent large-scale drone attack on Russian bombers, a new report exclusively obtained by NBC News claims Russia is deploying commercial-style drones to target civilians. NBC News' Ellison Barber interviewed a victim who says Russian soldiers targeted her,

Russian and Ukrainian delegates met in Istanbul on Monday for their second set of direct peace talks, a day after Kyiv launched a shock drone attack on Russia’s nuclear-capable bombers, in an operation that President Volodymyr Zelensky said was a year and a half in the making.

Steve Bannon warned on the "War Room" podcast that Ukraine's wildly successful drone attack on Russia's strategic bomber fleet could be construed as an act of war, depending on how much help the U.S.

The strikes help Kyiv "negotiate from a position of strength," Oleksandr Merezhko, the head of Ukraine's parliamentary foreign affairs committee, told Newsweek.

It was already hard to imagine a breakthrough emerging from the direct talks between Russia and Ukraine set to be renewed in Istanbul on Monday.