U.S. special envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg discusses the ongoing cease-fire negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

Russia once struggled to field its own long range drones until Iran sold them the technology to build their own. Now hundreds hit Ukraine every night.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said Russia's proposal to hold another round of peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on June 2 had heightened Ankara's hopes for peace.

We answer all that and discuss whether Germany will arm Ukraine with Taurus missiles, with Olga Ivshina from BBC Russian, and Mikey Kay, a former senior officer in the British military who hosts The Security Brief on BBC News.

While world leaders bicker over the prospects for peace, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two is heating up fast.

Third-grader Stanislav Martynyuk looks extremely proud in his school photograph. Hands folded on his desk; his eyes framed with spectacles that make him look like a serious – and adorable – 8-year-old scholar.

Surovikin, whose reputation for acting brutally earned him the nickname of "General Armageddon" had largely disappeared from public view following a failed June 2023 mutiny and march on Moscow by Wagner mercenary group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin, with whom he was closely associated.

Russia on Thursday accused Serbia of exporting arms to Ukraine, saying it’s a stab in the back by its longtime Slavic Balkan ally. “Serbian defense enterprises, contrary to the ‘neutrality’ declared by official Belgrade,