"The United States is increasingly overstretched between these two conflicts," a former U.S. intelligence official told Newsweek.

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.

WASHINGTON, Sept 3 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would ask European nations to pay back the United States for military aid and munitions previously sent to Ukraine amid the ongoing war with Russia and appeared to signal a halt in sales to allied nations.

President Donald Trump said the federal government will ask Europe to pay it back for munitions given to Ukraine under former President Joe Biden, as the White House grapples with dwindling stocks of munitions with its war in Iran now stretching into its seventh month.

After meeting with Russia’s finance minister, the Treasury secretary said Ukraine’s attacks on Russian oil infrastructure were contributing to a global energy shock.

While much of the city bears the scars of five years of war, below the ground at Kharkiv Lyceum No. 24, everything is new and ready to accommodate 1,000 children.

A WEARY world may not want to hear it, but the war in Ukraine is intensifying, not ending. As it deepens, the conflict is also expanding. Increasingly, serious-minded governments across northern Europe are planning to defend themselves against Russia for decades to come.

Indian PM Narendra Modi has urged Russia to end the Ukraine war and to cease hostilities.

Sept 3 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday that an investigation would determine what caused a dispute between two of Ukraine's security agencies to escalate into a shootout in Kyiv this week that left three members of the Defence Ministry's HUR Military Intelligence Directorate injured.