US president Donald Trump has described the animosity between Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as “ridiculous”, while noting that he still has conversations with both the leaders.
Much of the White House's foreign policy focus has shifted to the Middle East conflict, but Trump told Fox News on Sunday that “we're working on the Russia situation, Russia and Ukraine, and hopefully we're going to get it (a peace deal)”.
Trump said he was still having “good conversations” with both Putin and Zelensky.
“The hatred between President Putin and President Zelensky is ridiculous. It's crazy. And hate is a bad thing. Hate is a bad thing when you're trying to settle something, but it'll happen," he said.
Trump's remarks came on the same day that Zelensky accused Putin of “nuclear terrorism” and warned that Russian military activity near Chernobyl risked repeating the worst nuclear disaster in Europe's history.
“The world must not allow this nuclear terrorism to continue, and the best way is to force Russia to stop its reckless attacks," Zelensky said.
Key Points
- Trump says hatred between Putin and Zelensky 'ridiculous' as he confirms he speaks to both
- At least 16 killed in strikes across Ukraine and Russia on Chernobyl anniversary
- North Korea's Kim Jong Un vows to continue support for Russia
- Zelensky accuses Russia of nuclear terrorism on Chernobyl anniversary
- Ukraine’s land robots are revolutionising the shapeshifting war with Russia
Ukraine evacuates 77-year-old woman from frontline town 'under constant fire' with ground drone
14:00 , James ReynoldsAn elderly woman trapped on the frontlines of Ukraine was rescued by a drone on a heroic recovery mission, according to soldiers.
Video shared by the Third Army Corps on Telegram shows an unmanned ground drone arriving to pick the pensioner up on a road under fire in Lyman, eastern Ukraine.
“With no hope of survival, she walked through shell craters and the bodies of fellow villagers — until a robot arrived for her,” the corps said.
They said the robot was covered in a blanket so as to not scare her, and had attached a note that read: “Grandma, sit down!”
The 60th Motorized Rifle Brigade led the four-hour operation to rescue four civilians in the area, they said.
From battlefield tool to rescue mission. @ab3army defenders used a ground robot to pull a 77-year-old woman out of a frontline danger zone. War tech saving lives.
— Defense of Ukraine (@DefenceU) April 27, 2026
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In focus: Britain is losing its hybrid war with Russia and is unprepared for conflict, warns top former US aide
13:30 , James ReynoldsExclusive: Ex-government advisor and White House aide Fiona Hill leads a growing chorus of experts warning that the UK has no capacity to survive an escalation of a hybrid attack from Vladimir Putin let alone a full-scale global conflict, reports world affairs editor Sam Kiley:
Britain is losing hybrid war with Russia and cannot cope with conflict, warns ex-aide
Watch: Zelensky accuses Russia of attacking nuclear plant on 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
13:00 , James ReynoldsIn pictures: Devastation wrought by Russian drone strike on Odesa
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Russia claims nuclear plant worker killed in Ukrainian drone strike
11:07 , Arpan RaiAn employee of the transport unit at Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – which is occupied by Russian forces – was killed in a Ukrainian drone attack, the Russian-installed management of the station said in a Telegram post today.
"A driver was killed today when a Ukrainian Armed Forces drone struck the transport department at the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant," the post said.
The International Atomic Energy Agency said its team on the site will look into the incident and continue to monitor the situation.
IAEA director general Rafael Mariano Grossi reiterated that strikes on or near nuclear power plants "can endanger nuclear safety and must not take place".
Trump says hatred between Putin and Zelensky 'ridiculous' as he confirms he speaks to both
11:02 , Arpan RaiUS president Donald Trump said on Sunday he has "good conversations" with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as he aims to settle the Ukraine war.
"We're working on the Russia situation, Russia and Ukraine, and hopefully we're going to get it," Trump said in an interview on Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing."
Trump said he did not want to reveal when he had last spoken with Putin.
"I do have conversations with him, and I do have conversations with president Zelensky, and good conversations," he said, not specifying when calls with either leader had been held.
"The hatred between president Putin and president Zelensky is ridiculous. It's crazy. And hate is a bad thing. Hate is a bad thing when you're trying to settle something, but it'll happen," he said.
Trump had vowed to end the war that began with a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but more than a year into his second term, the conflict continues.
UN nuclear watchdog raises concerns on Chernobyl anniversary
10:55 , Arpan RaiRafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has echoed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's concerns over Chernobyl during a visit to Kyiv, saying repairs to the plant's damaged outer protective shell must begin immediately.
IAEA assessments show the damage sustained after a strike last year has already compromised a key safety function of the structure, he said, warning that years of inaction could heighten danger to the original sarcophagus beneath it.
The UN nuclear watchdog chief took part in the opening of a new permanent exhibition at the National Chernobyl museum with Zelensky.
Finnish leader says Putin failed in his war on Ukraine: 'losing 35,000 soldiers a month’
10:30 , Arpan RaiRussian president Vladimir Putin is failing in his war on Ukraine and has suffered four times more military personnel losses, Finland’s president Alexander Stubb has said, in a rare disclosure of casualties of the conflict.
"How much of a better place Ukraine is in today than they were a year ago? In the past four months – and sorry for being morbid – Ukraine has killed or wounded between 30 to 35,000 Russian soldiers per month," the Finnish president said.
He added that Putin has failed to achieve his goals in the war and Russia is no longer de facto acquiring territory in Ukraine any more.
Russia is losing five Russians for one Ukrainian killed, Stubb said, adding that the 95 per cent strikes are being carried out using drones.
At least 16 killed in strikes across Ukraine and Russia on Chernobyl anniversary
10:03 , Arpan RaiAt least 16 people have been killed in strikes over the weekend across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia, local authorities said.
The death toll from Russian drone and missile strikes on the city of Dnipro rose to nine, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said Sunday.
One man was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the port city of Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed authorities said yesterday. Russia illegally annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, and has used it as a staging and supply point during the war.
Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-installed governor in Ukraine’s Luhansk region – of which Russia earlier this month said it had taken full control, a claim denied by Ukraine – said three people were killed in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike on a village, after reporting two people were killed in the early hours of Saturday.
At least 16 dead in strikes as Chernobyl anniversary highlights nuclear risks of war
North Korea's Kim Jong Un vows to continue support for Russia
09:33 , Arpan RaiNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would continue to support Russia's policies and discussed bolstering military ties with Moscow.
Kim was speaking at a memorial to North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia in the Ukraine war.
He claimed the two countries' forces had "wiped out the aggressors," adding that this had thwarted what he described as "the United States' and the West's hegemonic ambitions and military adventurism", state media KCNA said.
"The North Korean government would continue to fully support Russia's policies of defending its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests," Kim said, according to KCNA. Russia and North Korea in 2024 signed a "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty" during a visit to Pyongyang by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The pact includes a mutual defence provision.The ceremony on Monday was attended by a Russian delegation including defence minister Andrei Belousov.
North Korea has sent an estimated 14,000 troops to fight with Russian forces in Kursk. South Korean, Ukrainian and Western officials said they suffered heavy casualties with more than 6,000 North Korean soldiers killed in the fighting.
Trump says hatred between Putin and Zelensky 'ridiculous' as he confirms he speaks to both
09:03 , Arpan RaiUS president Donald Trump said on Sunday he has "good conversations" with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as he aims to settle the Ukraine war.
"We're working on the Russia situation, Russia and Ukraine, and hopefully we're going to get it," Trump said in an interview on Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing."
Trump said he did not want to reveal when he had last spoken with Putin.
"I do have conversations with him, and I do have conversations with president Zelensky, and good conversations," he said, not specifying when calls with either leader had been held.
"The hatred between president Putin and president Zelensky is ridiculous. It's crazy. And hate is a bad thing. Hate is a bad thing when you're trying to settle something, but it'll happen," he said.
Trump had vowed to end the war that began with a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but more than a year into his second term, the conflict continues.
Russia 'planned terror attacks at Ukrainian schools', claims SBU
08:33 , Arpan RaiUkraine claims to have foiled a Russian plot to carry out terror attacks on schools.
The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said on Thursday that it had foiled efforts by the Russian special services to recruit children who “were supposed to blow up their lyceums” in Odesa and Kirovohrad regions, and “shoot their classmates with firearms”.
The SBU said an investigation revealed the children had been recruited through groups on Telegram and TikTok used to manipulate children into carrying out illegal activities.
They said the “young men”, who have been detained, were recruited under threat of reprisals against relatives and encouraged to punish bullies.
“Russian special services pushed the schoolchildren not only to commit terrorist acts, but also to commit suicide immediately after the “main crime”. In this way, the Russians hoped to get rid of “extra witnesses”,” the SBU said.
North Korea opens memorial museum for troops killed in Russia-Ukraine war
08:03 , Arpan RaiNorth Korea has opened a memorial museum for its soldiers killed while fighting for Russia against Ukraine, with top leaders of North Korea and Russia pledging a push for greater cooperation.
In April 2025, North Korea and Russia announced that their soldiers fought together to repel a Ukraine incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region. The two countries haven’t disclosed how many North Koreans soldiers were deployed, but South Korea’s intelligence service estimated North Korea sent about 15,000 troops and 2,000 of them were killed.
The North’s Korean Central News Agency reported this morning that the museum’s inaugural ceremony was held in Pyongyang on Sunday to mark the one-year anniversary of the end of an operation to liberate the Kursk region.
KCNA said leader Kim Jong Un attended the ceremony along with top visiting Russian officials including Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma, and defence minister Andrei Beloussov.
North Korea opens memorial museum for troops killed in Russia-Ukraine war
In photos: Russian officials join Kim Jong Un to honour North Koreans killed in Ukraine war
07:33 , Arpan Rai
Russian drone attack on Odesa wounds 10
07:01 , Arpan RaiAn overnight Russian drone attack on Ukraine's southern city of Odesa wounded 10 people, including two children, and damaged residential buildings, Ukrainian officials said this morning.
The strikes caused the biggest damage in the central Prymorskyi district, where residential buildings, a hotel and facilities in the center of the city were damaged, said Serhiy Lysak, the head of the local military administration, on Telegram.
Most of the injured people were located there, Lysak said.
"It was an extremely difficult night," he said, adding that high-rise residential buildings, private homes and vehicles came under attack in two other districts.
40 years after Chernobyl, Stasi files reveal scale of Soviet misinformation
06:59 , Arpan RaiOn April 26, 1986, Soviet engineers at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant were conducting a safety test.
Doomed by a fatal design flaw and pushed to the limit by human negligence, reactor 4 exploded amid an attempted shutdown during a routine procedure, setting off a chain of events that ultimately released radioactive material hundreds of times greater than that of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
Although the accident occurred north of Kyiv, Ukraine, near the border with Belarus, radioactive fallout was soon detected throughout northern and central Europe. Yet the Soviets did what they could to prevent the spread of information that would reveal the true horror of what had occurred.
40 years after Chernobyl, Stasi files reveal scale of Soviet misinformation
UN nuclear watchdog raises concerns on Chernobyl anniversary
06:35 , Arpan RaiRafael Grossi, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, has echoed Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky's concerns over Chernobyl during a visit to Kyiv, saying repairs to the plant's damaged outer protective shell must begin immediately.
IAEA assessments show the damage sustained after a strike last year has already compromised a key safety function of the structure, he said, warning that years of inaction could heighten danger to the original sarcophagus beneath it.
The UN nuclear watchdog chief took part in the opening of a new permanent exhibition at the National Chernobyl museum with Zelensky.
Britain is losing its hybrid war with Russia and is unprepared for conflict, warns top former US aide
06:23 , Arpan RaiBritain is failing in its efforts to fight a hybrid war with Russia and is unprepared for a wider-scale global conflict, a top former government aide and senior analysts have warned.
As war in Iran and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz leave the world reeling from higher oil, petrol, food and fertiliser prices, and conflict grinds on in Ukraine, fundamental planning to protect the UK is not taking place.
Fiona Hill, former director for European and Russian affairs in the National Security Council in Donald Trump's first administration, describes the UK’s contingencies for dealing with present and future disruptions as “not fit for purpose”.
As one of the co-authors of the UK’s 2025 Strategic Defence Review, Dr Hill will this week deliver a speech at the Imperial War Museum intended to galvanise Britain's response to threats against its infrastructure.
In a stark interview with The Independent, she warned: “In the UK, our systems are not designed to cope with major disruptions. It is up to the leadership to come up with a plan because, at the moment, what is there is not fit for purpose.
Britain is losing hybrid war with Russia and cannot cope with conflict, warns ex-aide
Finnish leader says Putin failed in his war on Ukraine: 'losing 35,000 soldiers a month’
06:15 , Arpan RaiRussian president Vladimir Putin is failing in his war on Ukraine and has suffered four times more military personnel losses, Finland’s president Alexander Stubb has said, in a rare disclosure of casualties of the conflict.
"How much of a better place Ukraine is in today than they were a year ago? In the past four months – and sorry for being morbid – Ukraine has killed or wounded between 30 to 35,000 Russian soldiers per month," the Finnish president said.
He added that Putin has failed to achieve his goals in the war and Russia is no longer de facto acquiring territory in Ukraine any more.
Russia is losing five Russians for one Ukrainian killed, Stubb said, adding that the 95 per cent strikes are being carried out using drones.
At least 16 killed in strikes across Ukraine and Russia on Chernobyl anniversary
05:45 , Arpan RaiAt least 16 people have been killed in strikes over the weekend across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia, local authorities said.
The death toll from Russian drone and missile strikes on the city of Dnipro rose to nine, regional head Oleksandr Hanzha said Sunday.
One man was killed in a Ukrainian drone strike on the port city of Sevastopol, in Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed authorities said yesterday. Russia illegally annexed the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014, and has used it as a staging and supply point during the war.
Leonid Pasechnik, the Russia-installed governor in Ukraine’s Luhansk region – of which Russia earlier this month said it had taken full control, a claim denied by Ukraine – said three people were killed in an overnight Ukrainian drone strike on a village, after reporting two people were killed in the early hours of Saturday.
At least 16 dead in strikes as Chernobyl anniversary highlights nuclear risks of war
Watch: Zelensky accuses Russia of attacking nuclear plant on 40th anniversary of Chernobyl disaster
05:42 , Arpan RaiUkraine’s land robots are revolutionising the shapeshifting war with Russia
05:25 , Arpan RaiFirst came the infantry, next the missiles, then the drones.
Now, after more than four years of a bloody and grinding war in Ukraine, remote-controlled ground robots are assuming command over the battlefield.
Last Wednesday, Volodymyr Zelensky claimed Ukraine’s 3rd Separate Assault Brigade had regained territory exclusively using a combination of unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) and drones – a mission he says was a first in the war.
“The occupiers surrendered, and the operation was carried out without infantry and without losses on our side,” he went on, referring to an operation from the northeastern Kharkiv region last year, in which Ukrainian infantry occupied a position gained using the UGVs.
Ukrainian robots are revolutionising the shapeshifting war with Russia
North Korea's Kim Jong Un vows to continue support for Russia
05:20 , Arpan RaiNorth Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would continue to support Russia's policies and discussed bolstering military ties with Moscow.
Kim was speaking at a memorial to North Korean soldiers killed fighting for Russia in the Ukraine war.
He claimed the two countries' forces had "wiped out the aggressors," adding that this had thwarted what he described as "the United States' and the West's hegemonic ambitions and military adventurism", state media KCNA said.
"The North Korean government would continue to fully support Russia's policies of defending its sovereignty, territorial integrity and security interests," Kim said, according to KCNA. Russia and North Korea in 2024 signed a "Comprehensive Strategic Partnership Treaty" during a visit to Pyongyang by Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The pact includes a mutual defence provision.The ceremony on Monday was attended by a Russian delegation including defence minister Andrei Belousov.
North Korea has sent an estimated 14,000 troops to fight with Russian forces in Kursk. South Korean, Ukrainian and Western officials said they suffered heavy casualties with more than 6,000 North Korean soldiers killed in the fighting.
Trump says hatred between Putin and Zelensky 'ridiculous' as he confirms he speaks to both
05:06 , Arpan RaiUS president Donald Trump said on Sunday he has "good conversations" with Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky as he aims to settle the Ukraine war.
"We're working on the Russia situation, Russia and Ukraine, and hopefully we're going to get it," Trump said in an interview on Fox News' "The Sunday Briefing."
Trump said he did not want to reveal when he had last spoken with Putin.
"I do have conversations with him, and I do have conversations with president Zelensky, and good conversations," he said, not specifying when calls with either leader had been held.
"The hatred between president Putin and president Zelensky is ridiculous. It's crazy. And hate is a bad thing. Hate is a bad thing when you're trying to settle something, but it'll happen," he said.
Trump had vowed to end the war that began with a full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, but more than a year into his second term, the conflict continues.
Zelensky accuses Russia of nuclear terrorism on Chernobyl anniversary
04:43 , Arpan RaiUkraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky has marked the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl nuclear disaster with a warning that Russian attacks risk repeating history.
"Russia is once again bringing the world to the brink of a man-made disaster — Russian-Iranian Shaheds regularly fly over the plant, and one of them struck the confinement last year," he wrote on Facebook, referring to the Iran-designed drones that have wreaked havoc since Moscow launched its all-out war in February 2022.
"The world must not allow this nuclear terrorism to continue, and the best way is to force Russia to stop its reckless attacks," Zelensky said.
Sombre ceremonies took place in Kyiv and at the Chernobyl plant itself – which was briefly occupied in the first weeks of war – where Zelensky laid a candle alongside the visiting Moldovan president and other officials.
“Right now, the risks are no less great because of what Russia is doing with our Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station, and in general with our energy and our land," Zelensky told reporters in Kyiv.
