Ukraine-Russia war latest: Russian losses mount as Putin’s forces close in on key city - Kyiv says its military still holds on in northern part of Pokrovsk and is defending a smaller city nearby

Russian troops have advanced at a glacial pace in recent months, but gains in southern and eastern Ukraine could give Moscow an edge in U.S.-mediated peace talks.

Volodymyr Zelensky has been talking up Russia’s battlefield fatalities and has asked his new Defense Minister to make it a priority.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Ukraine of trying to "disrupt the negotiation process" searching for an end to the war.

"The Americans are proposing the parties end the war by the beginning of this summer," Zelenskyy said, speaking to reporters on Friday.

CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — Ukraine’s flag bearer during the Olympic opening ceremony plans to continue wearing a helmet that commemorates the lives of Ukrainian athletes lost since Russia’s invasion, despite a ban from the International Olympic Committee (IOC), which says it breaks Olympic rules on neutrality.

Russian war correspondents reported an alleged counteroffensive by the Armed Forces of Ukraine at the border of the Dnipropetrovsk and Zaporizhzhia regions. The Southern Defense Forces refuted these reports and explained the real situation on the front line.

Ukrainian president says the power infrastructure generates money for Moscow so is akin to a military target. What we know on day 1,447