Since last sitting down with Ukraine to talk peace, Russia has launched four of its five largest drone attacks against the country, killed more than 340 of its civilians and continued to peddle its false narrative about the unprovoked war it has been waging for more than a decade.

Ukraine’s security service released footage Wednesday of its attack on Russian war planes at multiple airbases across the country. In the span of a few hours on Sunday, nearly a third of Moscow’s strategic bomber fleet was destroyed or damaged with cheaply made drones sneaked into Russian territory, according to Ukrainian officials.

Ukraine reviews Russia's ceasefire terms after failed talks. Zelenskyy emphasizes no rewards for Putin and highlights NATO's importance in curbing Russian aggression.

Russian and Ukrainian officials are due to hold peace talks in Istanbul with no sign they are any closer to an agreement.

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Ukrainian peace talks Monday amid heightened tensions after Ukraine's drone attack on Russian airfields, and unclaimed bridge explosions.

It restated Moscow's demands that Ukraine become a neutral country - ruling out membership of NATO - and that it protect the rights of Russian speakers, make Russian an official language and enact a legal ban on glorification of Nazism. Ukraine rejects the Nazi charge as absurd and denies discriminating against Russian speakers.

This week's talks ended in a similar fashion. Again, no movement was detected on the major issues that have fueled the war into a fourth year. Coming a day after Kyiv conducted its most impressive drone attack inside Russia since the war began,

“Despite this,” he said before the talks began, “we will attempt to achieve at least some progress on the path toward peace.” It is not yet clear if Ukraine’s daring Sunday air raid will ...

During high-level talks in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia ... the discussions as "important steps toward restoring durable peace for Ukraine." At a subsequent meeting in Riyadh, between the U.S. and ...