Russia is rapidly losing control of the territories it has seized The effectiveness of Russia’s offensive campaign is declining, despite the use of various mapping methods to analyze the battlefield situation.

Talks appear no closer to ending the war, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to project a bullish view of the Russian economy.

Ukraine is significantly expanding its long-range drone attacks on targets across Russia -- including the capital Moscow -- according to data published by the Russian Defense Ministry, as the Kremlin's four-year-old full-scale invasion of its neighbor grinds on with little apparent hope for a peace deal or for the Russian victory that President Vladimir Putin has framed as inevitable.

Russian missile, drone strikes kill at least 22 people across Ukraine, authorities say, after President Zelenskyy warned Moscow was planning a "massive new strike."

Ukrainian drones has targeted St. Petersburg in what Russian officials called a "large-scale" attack, prompting Governor Alexander Beglov to advise residents to remain indoors.

Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides claiming to have suffered casualties in drone and artillery strikes over the past 24 hours. President Trump had announced Friday that Russia and Ukraine would swap 1,

The war has not been going the Kremlin’s way, with battleground losses and growing casualties. With fiercer strikes, Moscow hopes to gain a better position for negotiations.