Soldiers should "stay where they stay," Zelensky said, and not offer new territory to Putin, who has reportedly demanded full control of Donetsk Oblast as a condition for ending the war.

Moscow appears to have rejected President Trump’s latest call to freeze the current front lines in Ukraine, reiterating that “Russia’s stance doesn’t change.”  Addressing Trump’s proposal over the

Ukraine faced a grim outlook as President Zelensky returned empty-handed from Washington after failing to secure Tomahawk missiles from the U.S. President Trump refused to arm Kyiv, reportedly following an eleventh-hour call with Putin,

EADaily, October 7th, 2025. Since the beginning of SMO, the Russian military-political leadership has conducted military operations in a relatively sparing mode. And only in recent days, after numerous attacks by Ukrainian UAVs on Russian refineries,

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has proposed a weapons deal with the US for Ukraine to get hold of Tomahawk missiles. But, after his meeting with Donald Trump at the White House, he said he won't answer media questions on the coveted long-range weapons.

Former Soviet Union expert Dr. Ronald Suny, and Distinguished University Professor of History and Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan and Emeritus Professor of Political Science and History at the University of Chicago,

Trump dismissed maps outlining front lines and encouraged Ukraine to hand over entire eastern Donbas region to Russia in order to secure peace, says Washington Post, citing anonymous sources - Anadolu

EADaily, . The German magazine KATAPULT demonstrated what Ukraine's territorial losses look like on maps of other countries.