Waves of Russian missiles and drones battered Ukraine overnight on October 22, killing six people, including two children, and wounding dozens more. The large-scale bombardment occurred just hours after reports that a planned meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump in Budapest, Hungary, had been canceled.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches

By Andrew Osborn, Jeff Mason and Timothy Gardner MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin remained defiant on Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions to pressure the Kremlin leader to end the war in Ukraine,

President Trump abruptly canceled a second meeting with Russian President Putin in Budapest and instead approved new strong sanctions on Russian oil. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink, who is a Democratic candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 7th district,

For months, President Donald Trump resisted calls to slap new sanctions on Russia, believing he could end the war in a deal with Vladimir Putin — including with a quick peace summit in the coming weeks in Budapest.

Vladimir Solovyov, a broadcaster with ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, has condemned U.S. President Donald Trump over tough sanctions announced against Russian oil giants that could deal a blow to Moscow’s war machine.

America’s latest sanctions on top Russian oil producers throw India’s lucrative energy strategy into disarray, leaving it to navigate soaring costs, disrupted supplies, and the politics of managing relations with Washington and Moscow.

The drone and missile attacks on Ukraine came as the US president put on hold his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday delivered his first direct response to new U.S. sanctions imposed on Russia, calling them an “unfriendly act” that will not significantly harm the country’s economy.

As Zelenskyy lauds Europe and the U.S. for ramping up economic pressure on Putin over the war in Ukraine, Moscow dismisses them as a counterproductive "act of war."

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed "very important" new U.S. and European Union energy sanctions on Russia on Thursday, but said more pressure would be needed on Moscow to secure a ceasefire in the war.

Vladimir Putin responded to President Trump slapping sanctions on Russia's two biggest oil companies in a U.S. policy shift over the war in Ukraine.