Arms supplies to Ukraine have not dropped following a decision by U.S. President Donald Trump to stop direct donations to Ukraine, a senior NATO military official said. After coming to office in January,

The loan will cover two-thirds of the country’s financial needs for the next two years. It also bolsters Ukraine’s position in ongoing peace talks.

ICYMI: Three Russian border guards used a hovercraft to cross into Estonian territory on Wednesday. The encounter was reportedly brief, and seemed to be a test of Estonian responses, analysts at the Washington-based Institute for the Study of War noted in their Thursday assessment .

Ukrainian negotiators held a new round of talks on a settlement to the war with Russia with U.S. and European teams on Friday and agreed to pursue their joint efforts, top Ukrainian negotiator Rustem Umerov said.

European leaders are pledging to provide Ukraine with military force support against Russia, as talks between Washington and Kyiv to end the war with Moscow continue.

A source said the strike was a "new, unprecedented special operation" — Kyiv's first military action in the Mediterranean, carried out around 1,240 miles from the country's borders.

Zelenskyy urges EU leaders to unlock Russian assets to show Moscow its desire to continue war next year is ‘pointless’.

A US-backed European peacekeeping force would secure an eventual peace deal, with additional help for Ukraine to build an 800,000-strong peacetime force.

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yury Ushakov said on Friday that a ceasefire in Ukraine is only possible after Kyiv's forces withdraw from the entire Donbas region, with the area they currently control taken over by Russian National Guard,

Amid air sirens and sandbagged streets, Kyiv’s art scene offers unexpected glimpses of life, reflection and the human spirit.