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Russia has ramped up its attempts to try and push Ukrainian troops out of the region in the past week

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COMMENT: As the Russian leader says the US-brokered truce is ‘difficult to accept’, a pause in fighting could be exactly what he needs to regroup – and to shatter the wartime solidarity keeping Ukrainian society united against his invading forces, says Mark Almond

The cutting of US intelligence to Ukrainian soldiers forced a retreat in occupied Russian Kursk, sources tell The Independent. It was the only Putin land taken by Volodymyr Zelensky’s forces during the three-year war

Marco Rubio said a Russian rejection of the plan would ‘make their intentions clear’.

Major General Dmytro Krasylnykov, commander of Ukraine's Northern Operational Command, has been dismissed. He said he was not given an official reason

Sources claims Kremlin wary, as Poland reports that US military aid flow to Ukraine is already back up to speed.

Less than a fortnight after Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky had their now-notorious row in the Oval Office and US-Ukrainian relations appeared irretrievably damaged, the two countries have reached an agreement. After nine hours of negotiations behind closed doors in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, negotiators signed off on a US proposal…

Over 11 days of breakneck diplomacy, Kyiv was convinced of need to pacify Trump, but reconciliation may be all too brief