World leaders had hoped to secure U.S. backing for tougher sanctions on Russia, which struck Ukraine with missiles and drones overnight.

The European Union is moving closer to banning all imports of Russian oil and natural gas more than three years after Moscow launched its unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Oil options are now more bullish than after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, showing a global market that’s on edge as Israel and Iran trade blows, and speculation mounts that the US may join the attack.

The war in Ukraine has revealed a fundamental truth of modern conflict: resources are everything. Even as the battlefield shifted into a new era of drone

Ukraine alleged Monday that Russia mixed bodies of its own dead soldiers among the Ukrainian military dead that have been returned, and that more than a million Russians have been killed since conflict began.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is visiting Austria in his first trip to the European Union member country since Russia's full-scale invasion of his country in 2022

The European Union should be open to resuming Russian natural gas imports if a peace deal is reached between Russia and Ukraine, an Austrian official said, as Brussels readies a proposal to ban Russian imports.

It is designed to make the West think a Kremlin victory is inevitable.

On the face of it, Russia has so much to lose. Iran has been a particularly useful “strategic partner” for the Kremlin, not only sharing a disdain for Western values and influence, but also supplying the Russian military with vast squadrons of Shahed aerial drones, enabling the relentless bombardment of Ukraine.