Kremlin aide Ushakov says Putin condemned Israeli action Ushakov also says Russia's offer stands to help with talks Trump says hostilities should end, as should Ukraine war Thank you for reading Nation.

Trump has generally veered away from overtly criticizing Putin while openly berating Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky, but has repeatedly condemned Russia's lethal airstrikes and floated that the Kremlin could be "tapping us along."

US President Donald Trump on Saturday (local time) revealed that he received a call from Russian President Vladimir Putin on his 79th birthday and and talked about the war between Israel and Iran, which both leaders agreed "should end.

A FTER WEEKS of nebulous ceasefire talks at the urging of a semi-engaged President Donald Trump, the war between Russia and Ukraine is intensifying again in savage style and with fast-rising stakes. In the past two weeks there have been record-breaking Russian missile strikes on Ukrainian cities and spectacular Ukrainian drone raids on Russia’s strategic-bomber force,

Ukrainian forces were gradually pushing Russian forces out of the border Sumy region, where Moscow was able to establish a foothold in recent weeks, president Volodymyr Zelensky said.“Our units in Sumy region are gradually pushing back the occupiers,

Russia has used its fleet of bombers to rain hellfire on Ukraine. On June 1, Kyiv responded by going after those bombers.

He highlighted the Kremlin's strategy to create the illusion of diplomacy in order to show US President Donald Trump that “there’s still a diplomatic bridge” between Ukraine and Russia. Read also: Kremlin sees peace talks as smokescreen,

A close aide to Vladimir Putin has claimed that the world could face nuclear annihilation unless Ukraine agrees to give up parts of its territory permanently