Gennady Trukhanov has served as mayor of the southern port city of Odesa, which has been heavily bombarded by Moscow, since 2014. He denied the accusations and said he would appeal at the country's top court. Newsweek has reached out to the Ukrainian presidential office for comment.

Estonia said Baltic and Nordic nations were working together to provide Ukraine with financing to buy US weapons, as NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte expressed confidence that more allies would commit money.

Local authorities in Ukraine ordered the evacuation of families from dozens of villages on Tuesday near the all-but-destroyed northeastern city of Kupiansk, citing the "worsening security situation",

President Donald Trump is “optimistic” he can achieve peace in Ukraine on the heels of the successful hostage exchange in the Middle East, a White House official told POLITICO. Trump has a meeting scheduled with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday,

The Kremlin will negotiate only if missiles and drones bring the pain of war home to Russians, Ukrainian officials say.

Foreign donors have provided 93.3 billion crowns ($4.5 billion) to a Czech-led initiative to find and deliver large-calibre ammunition to Ukraine, and the Czech Republic has contributed 1.7 billion crowns,

Almost 900 miles from Ukraine’s borders, a fire erupted at a Russian oil refinery on Saturday. The blaze – a result of a strike by Ukrainian long-range drones, according to sources in the country’s security services – was the third at the facility in the last month alone.

The war in Ukraine has changed the way every modern military will fight its next conflict. Why it matters: Everyone is watching Eastern Europe for an edge. Alistair Carns, the U.K. minister for the armed forces,