#RUSSIA

At least 32 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said.

The Kremlin said on Sunday contacts with U.S. President Donald Trump's team were moving ahead very well but that it was too early to expect instant results due to the level of damage done to relations under Trump's predecessor Joe Biden.

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine may be going OK, but “there’s a point at which you just have to either put up or shut up.”

About 350 military reenactors will today march silently through central Warsaw as Poles pause to honor the 22,000 that were killed during the 1940 Katyn Massacre, a horrific bloodletting that saw the cream of Poland’s officer class murdered by Stalin’s NKVD.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov praised U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday for what he said was a better understanding of the Ukraine conflict than any other Western leader.

A suspected “shadow fleet” vessel detained by Estonia has more than 40 “deficiencies,” and several are serious, the country’s Transport Administration said after an inspection.

Russia may be considering the deployment of nuclear weapons in space in contravention of an international treaty, NATO’s secretary general has warned.

Chinese men are drawn to joining Russia’s war effort in Ukraine by ads on social media promising high pay and battlefield adventure.

U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with President Vladimir Putin on Friday in St. Petersburg about the search for a peace deal on Ukraine as Trump told Russia to “get moving”.

Artifacts taken illegally from areas of Ukraine under Russian occupation are being sold on the black market, according to the Ukrainian minister of culture.

A Russian politician appointed by President Vladimir Putin as governor of Russia-annexed Crimea’s largest city was jailed for 40 months on Friday after being found guilty of breaching British sanctions, the first such conviction in Britain.

Lithuanian border guards will use a helicopter to escort Russian trains traveling between Russia's Kaliningrad exclave on the Baltic coast and Belarus to the east.

Germany’s defense minister has said that peace in Ukraine “appears out of reach in the immediate future” following a meeting of Ukraine’s closest allies in Brussels.

The Estonian Navy seized a suspected Russian “shadow fleet” tanker in the Baltic Sea on Friday.

Of 45 foreign banks active in Russia at the start of the war in Ukraine, 17 still have operations in the country and are paying taxes that help fund Moscow’s war effort, a Ukrainian economic think tank has reported.

Kremlin officials confirmed Steve Witkoff’s arrival on Friday morning.

Estonia’s parliament passed a law on Wednesday banning foreigners seen as a threat to the country’s security from acting as leaders of religious organizations.

The first round of talks on normalizing diplomatic ties was held in February.

A former regional governor in Russian-annexed Crimea has been convicted of violating recent UK sanctions on Moscow, in the first legal case of its kind.

Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, has called for unity as the country marks the 15th anniversary of a presidential plane crash that claimed the lives of all 96 on board and triggered bitter arguments about the cause of the disaster.