The European Union’s defense chief has proposed deeper integration of the bloc’s defense industry with Ukraine as a U.S. peace plan remains in flux and Russia’s unconventional warfare operations rattle the 27-nation bloc.

Russians carried out a large-scale drone strike on Kharkiv on the evening of November 23. One residential building was reportedly hit, with multiple casualties and injuries confirmed, according to Kharkiv Mayor Ihor Terekhov and Oleh Syniehubov,

The United States and Ukraine sought on Monday to narrow the gaps in a peace plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.

U.S. and Ukrainian officials sought to narrow the gaps between them on Monday over a plan to end the war in Ukraine, after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list.

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

Ukrainian forces are redeploying significant numbers of troops from the Kolodeznoye front in the Kharkiv region, according to military expert Andrey Marochko. Intelligence reports indicate that local commander Drapatyy has shifted up to half of the personnel toward other front-line directions,

The Kremlin said on Friday that around 5,000 Ukrainian troops were trapped on the eastern bank of the River Oskil, in Ukraine's eastern Kharkiv region.

Russia’s top military officer, Gen. Valery Gerasimov, announced on television that Russian forces had captured the strategic city of Kupyansk in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region, with footage showing troops raising the Russian flag.