Russia, Ukraine and drones
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KYIV, Ukraine — Russian attacks overnight killed at least three people in Ukraine, local officials said Friday, after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said U.S. envoys are expected to visit Kyiv within the coming days as part of renewed diplomatic efforts ...
"We may be headed toward a more dangerous version of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis," one Russian expert told Newsweek.
Negotiators to visit Kyiv and Moscow as US president Donald Trump says he wants to see an end to the war.
Ukraine’s static war front has gone electronic. Even as news headlines focused on the dynamic U.S. air campaign over Iran, a threshold moment in military history was playing out in the frozen trenches of eastern Ukraine.
Each side is using missiles and drones to try to pound the other into giving up, breeding ceaseless human suffering. But there is no sign that either country’s determination will weaken.
"The United States is increasingly overstretched between these two conflicts," a former U.S. intelligence official told Newsweek.
BBC correspondents in Delhi and Moscow look at why the Indian PM made a very public peace plea to his Russian ally.
MOSCOW/KYIV, Sept 4 (Reuters) - U.S. negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner, who have spearheaded efforts to broker a Ukraine peace agreement, will visit Russia and Ukraine on Saturday and Sunday,