Ukraine and the US are to hold crunch peace talks in Saudi Arabia from tomorrow following a tense few weeks in which relations between Kyiv and Washington looked more fraught than ever, US officials have said they are planning on using the meeting with their Ukrainian counterparts to determine whether Kyiv is willing to make material concessions

By Andrew Osborn and Anastasiia Malenko LONDON/KYIV (Reuters) -Thousands of Ukrainian troops who stormed into Russia's Kursk region last summer in a shock incursion are nearly surrounded by Russian forces there,

The US pause in military aid to Ukraine and sharing intelligence with the war-torn country has led Russian forces to step up missile strikes to an intensity rarely seen since the February 2022 invasion,

The suspension of intelligence data sharing by the US with Ukraine has impacted the Russian advances in the Kursk region. Ukrainian forces are in retreat, as confirmed by a report from the Institute for the Study of War (ISW).