Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War.

If a peace between Russia and Ukraine is reached, there is no downside to oil prices since Russian oil is "already flowing at full throttle,” said Manish Raj, managing director at Velandera Energy Partners.

As leaders arrived in Washington to discuss how to end Russia’s three-year war in Ukraine, civilians in Ukraine were killed and wounded by Russian missile strikes Monday in the eastern city of Kharkiv.

Hungary accused Ukraine of an "outrageous and unacceptable" attack that disabled a Russian oil pipeline supplying the NATO ally—and fired a warning to Kyiv about its reliance on Hungarian electricity supplies. Newsweek has contacted the Ukrainian foreign ministry for comment.

The year began with a new U.S. president and hope for a ceasefire in the grinding war but instead the fighting continues and the children keep dying.

Russia attacked Ukraine with an Iskander missile and more than 80 Shahed drones. The military reported how many were shot down and suppressed by air defenses, according to the Telegram channel of the Ukrainian Air Force.

Days before the leaders of Russia and the U.S. hold a summit meeting in Alaska, Moscow’s forces breached Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations this week in the country’s industrial heartland of Donetsk.