US President Donald Trump is dissatisfied with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s actions regarding Ukraine. While he always hopes diplomacy will succeed, he is also a realist, states US State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce.

Russia launched 400 Shahed and decoy drones, as well as one ballistic missile, during the night, the Ukrainian air force said. The strikes targeted northeastern Kharkiv, which is Ukraine’s second-largest city, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s hometown of Kryvyi Rih in central Ukraine, Vinnytsia in the west and Odesa in the south.

Daniel Martindale, a U.S. citizen who helped the Kremlin target Ukrainian troops and was then spirited out of eastern Ukraine by Russian special forces, has received a Russian passport in Moscow. Russian state television broadcast a report on Tuesday showing Martindale,

Ukraine’s military commander in charge of the country’s drone warfare program urged the US and NATO countries alike on Wednesday to learn from Kyiv’s use of the technology on the battlefield so in the future there are not “hard questions from your children [about] when [their] father will come back.

Russia launched further brutal drone attacks on Ukraine overnight Monday, wounding a 14-year-old girl and “deliberately” targeting a university in a stunning act of rebellion against President Trump’s threats of fresh sanctions and weapons deliveries to Ukraine.

President Trump discussed how he came to give up on negotiating with Vladimir Putin, during a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte at the White House on Monday, as the U.S. agrees to sell new and more weapons to Europe and Ukraine.

Putin hit squad ‘eliminated’ after cold-blooded daylight assassination of Ukrainian special ops chief - The attack took place in broad daylight in Kyiv’s Holosiivski district

Additionally, North Korea declared its unconditional support for Russia amid the war in Ukraine. • Ukraine's SBU said that it killed Russian FSB agents.