Ukraine said a resistance agent was able to sneak into a Russian hangar and destroy two Russian fighter jets.

Apart from disagreements about peace efforts in Ukraine, Witkoff has been at loggerheads with Rubio and State Department officials about the way he handles security.

Russia has ordered a winter troop surge to break the stalemate in Ukraine, but Ukrainian drone attacks on logistics and resupply channels will undermine this offensive.

Volodymyr Zelensky said on Tuesday that several draft documents, including on security guarantees, had been prepared after Ukrainian officials held talks in Miami with US counterparts on ending Russia's war.

Ukrainian forces say they have hit an oil terminal, a pipeline, two parked jet fighters, and two ships in a series of strikes on Russian soil

South African father-of-three Dubandlela was overcome with pride when his 20-year-old son signed up in July to receive elite training as a VIP bodyguard in Russia. Five months later, Dubandlela is in despair.

The European Union’s agreement to extend 90 billion euro (around $105 billion) in no-interest loans to Ukraine last week was not elegant or free of risk, but it could represent a significant shift in how the nearly four-year-old Russia-Ukraine war plays out.

Talks between Russia and ‌the ​United States in ‌Miami on ways to resolve the conflict in ​Ukraine should not be seen as a breakthrough, the Izvestia ‍news outlet cited Kremlin spokesman ​Dmitry Peskov as saying in remarks published on ​Tuesday.