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US president says Russian counterpart ‘doing what anybody else would do’ as Ukraine faces escalating aerial attacks

‘I am definitely more sympathetic to Putin than Zelensky for the following reason: I think it's fair to judge leaders on how they do for their country,’ Tucker Carlson said in an interview with Chris Cuomo

France's defence minister is to hold talks next week with counterparts from Britain, Germany, Italy and Poland to discuss support for Ukraine, an aide said on Friday.

Energy Minister Herman Galushchenko said Ukraine's infrastructure is under a "massive missile and drone shelling" attack

A country that "never existed" or a "problem called Ukraine": Hungary's government and affiliated media have attacked their war-torn neighbour with increased pace since Prime Minister Viktor Orban's "dear friend" Donald Trump took power.

Trial of three ‘minions’ in spy ring for Russia heard of chaotic errors, tangled relationships, a cancer lie and a red button

Moscow launches missile and drone strikes across Ukraine day after US stopped sharing intelligence with Kyiv

THE INDEPENDENT VIEW: Editorial: Britain was notably absent from the EU’s emergency defence summit – but Sir Keir Starmer has already assembled a ‘coalition of the willing’ to support Ukraine, and established himself as the nearest thing to a replacement leader of the free world

Britain will also continue to supply analysis of raw data but will not pass on shared US information, sources say

Former president Petro Poroshenko denied he was part of a reported White House plot to remove Ukraine leader from power

As the Trump administration takes an increasingly aggressive line towards Zelensky and his government, Sam Kiley and David Maddox look at the names emerging on who could replace the Ukrainian president