US Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday about a proposed plan for ending the war in Ukraine, with talks to continue Tuesday, a US official told CNN.

Russia launched a wave of attacks on Ukraine on Tuesday, killing at least six people in overnight strikes that hit city buildings and energy infrastructure, while a Ukrainian attack in southern Russia killed three people and damaged homes,

A missile-and-drone barrage killed at least six people in Ukraine’s capital, officials said, hours after officials said they had made some headway on a peace proposal.

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.

Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said that a residential building was severely damaged and firefighters were battling multiple blazes in shops across the city

Pokrovsk was dubbed a “fortress” settlement in the Donetsk region, key to Ukrainian lines in the east and connected to other cities forming the backbone of Ukraine’s defense in the east. Russia kicked off a push to take Pokrovsk in the summer of 2024.

Russia launched a new barrage of drones and missiles at the Ukrainian capital Kyiv on Tuesday, killing six people, wounding 13, and disrupting electricity and heating systems, officials said.

WITH the city of Pokrovsk falling into Vladimir Putin’s hands, Ukraine is toughening its next line of defence to show the Russian tyrant has won the battle – but not the war. In the