Vlad Litnarovych

Secret US–Russia peace talks inside the Kremlin dragged past midnight but ended without a breakthrough, with Vladimir Putin rejecting key American proposals as Ukraine’s Zelenskyy and independent analysts warned that Moscow’s claims of progress don’t match battlefield reality.

The UK is urgently moving to fill what officials describe as a dangerous gap in its ability to strike distant targets from the ground, launching a new wave of long-range missile programs with NATO partners to counter Russia’s expanding capability to hit Europe from thousands of miles away.