NATO leaders plan to pledge to keep pouring arms and ammunition into Ukraine at current levels for at least another year

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg hopes Ukraine can join the alliance within the next decade, he told dpa in an interview published on Friday. "I strongly hope that Ukraine will be an ally," he said in an answer to a question about the possible expansion of NATO within the next 10 years,

The alliance will ask Ukraine to take further actions against corruption before moving ahead with formal membership discussions.

Russian President Vladimir Putin told Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday that he was ready to discuss the "nuances" of peace proposals to end the conflict in Ukraine.Putin, who received Orban in the Kremlin,

President Vladimir Putin said Russia takes seriously statements by Donald Trump that he has proposals to end the war in Ukraine quickly.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin has said that he takes seriously US presidential hopeful Donald Trump's offer to quickly end the war in Ukraine. Source: Vladimir Putin in a comment to journalists, as cited by Russian Interfax and reported by European Pravda Details: Putin said he was not familiar with the details of Trump's proposal regarding ending the war in Ukraine but does take it "seriously".

Ukraine’s military says it has retreated from a neighborhood in the outskirts of Chasiv Yar, a strategically important town in the eastern Donetsk region which has been reduced to rubble under a monthslong Russian assault.

Russia's Defence Ministry said on Wednesday that its forces had taken control of a district in the key Ukrainian town of Chasiv Yar, while Ukraine said the area was engulfed by intense fighting. Chasiv Yar stands on high ground 20 km (12 miles) to the west of Bakhmut,

Ukraine said Thursday its forces have withdrawn from a district in the town of Chasiv Yar in eastern Ukraine, where Russian forces have recently claimed several advances. Losing the small hilltop town is a worrying prospect for Ukraine because it would likely accelerate Russia's advance toward large civilian hubs in the Donetsk region.