Russian and Ukrainian officials made rival claims of battlefield successes in their 4-year-old war, with Ukraine saying it pushed Moscow’s forces back across places on the front line and the Kremlin insisting Russia’s invasion of its neighbor is making progress.

Emergency power cuts have hit several Ukrainian cities and neighboring Moldova. Ukraine’s Energy Minister says a technical malfunction caused the outages, affecting power lines between Ukraine and Moldova.

Julia Klöckner, the president of the German Bundestag, has arrived in Kyiv for the first time. According to Ukrinform, Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk announced this on Facebook and posted photos of the meeting at the railway station.

Zelenskyy said Ukraine has fielded nearly a dozen requests from the US, Europe, and countries neighboring Iran since the regional war began.

Three-way peace talks are on hold, and Kyiv fears that U.S. air defense systems it needs to counter Russia could be diverted to the Iran conflict.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s ‘buffer zone’ strategy in tatters after Kyiv reclaims swathes of territory - Ukrainian troops now control almost all of the Dnipropetrovsk region after liberating 40

Lawmakers urged Hungary's government to "avoid sending money or weapons to Ukraine" and instead support "international peace efforts," Hungarian government spokesperson Zoltan Kovacs said.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he and Dutch Prime Minister Rob Jetten discussed joint arms production during his visit to Kyiv on Sunday, and he stressed