Ukraine launched drone strikes against Russia just one day before a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian ...

The attack came ahead of a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his US counterpart Donald Trump in Alaska.

Putin said in a short video released by the Kremlin that the Trump administration was making "energetic and sincere efforts" to stop the war.

The National has learnt that senior military officials from Ukraine would accept a “frozen-in-place” conflict in return for a halt to the fighting. Russian analysts have argued that Moscow would be ...