Ukraine War End Soon Unlikely

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started the deadliest war on European soil in more than 70 years.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Sunday of breaching the 32-hour ceasefire in their ​four-year war, reporting more than a thousand drone ‌and shelling attacks just hours after the truce began on Saturday to mark Orthodox Easter.

The subject of the $200 billion request came up during a March 19 meeting in the Oval Office when a reporter asked Trump why the funding would be necessary if, as Trump had said, the war with Iran would “pretty soon” be over. “Well, we’re asking for a lot of reasons beyond even what we’re talking about in Iran,” the president responded. He went on to add: “We want to have vast amounts of ammunition, which we have right now. We have a lot of ammunition, but it was taken down by giving so much to Ukraine.

Talks to end the war in Ukraine could resume soon, said President Volodymyr Zelensky as he expressed skepticism about a breakthrough.

Easter festivities are muted in Kharkiv as Ukrainians expect fighting to flare up again after a weekend truce.

Ukraine’s president says military teams dispatched across the Gulf had delivered ‘positive’ results

Come summer, Ukrainians would be grilling meat on their barbecues as normal, he said, insisting that he “sincerely believed” there would be no major war in 2022. “Breathe deeply, calm down, and don’t go running to stock up on food and ...

"I don't like the 'NATO lake' expression (...); the area is really contested," she insisted. In her view, the dramatic Ukrainian drone strike on the Russian oil terminals at Primorsk and Ust-Luga on March 23, on the shores of the Gulf of Finland, more than 1,000 kilometers from Ukraine, is one of the latest illustrations of this.

Russia continued to strike Ukrainian positions with drones after a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire took effect Saturday, a Ukrainian military officer told The Associated Press, casting immediate doubt over the truce.