President Trump, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and key European leaders are meeting at the White House on Monday afternoon to discuss Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War.

Hungary accused Ukraine of an "outrageous and unacceptable" attack that disabled a Russian oil pipeline supplying the NATO ally—and fired a warning to Kyiv about its reliance on Hungarian electricity supplies. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.

The year began with a new U.S. president and hope for a ceasefire in the grinding war but instead the fighting continues and the children keep dying.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war,

Russia attacked Ukraine with an Iskander missile and more than 80 Shahed drones. The military reported how many were shot down and suppressed by air defenses, according to the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian Air Force.