Russia appears to be "addicted" to military spending to keep its economy propped up, a think tank said this week.

Ukraine was prepared to engage in negotiations to end its nearly three-year-old war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, but he stressed that the United States and Europe also had to take part in any talks.

The president appears to have adopted a proposal first made last year that offers “strategic partners” such as the U.S. special access to Ukraine's glut of natural resources.

Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.

President Donald Trump says his administration has already had “very serious” discussions with Russia about its war in Ukraine and that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin could soon take “significant” action toward ending the grinding conflict.

The United States may present a plan to end Russia's war against Ukraine as early as next week. This is likely to happen at the Munich Security Conference, scheduled for February 14-16, Bloomberg reports.

The Russian leadership is exchanging men—many of them previous casualties discharged prematurely from military hospitals—for land.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous.”