Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed on Saturday what he called the complete failure of an offensive by Ukrainian forces into Russia's Kursk region after they were expelled from the last village Moscow said they had been holding.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his country has regained control of Kursk, the border region where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive last year, though Ukraine’s army says fighting continues.

ROME (AP) — President Donald Trump said Saturday that he doubts Russia's Vladimir Putin wants to end his war in Ukraine, expressing new skepticism that a peace deal can be reached soon. Only a day earlier, Trump had said Ukraine and Russia were “ very close to a deal ."

President Donald Trump took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a Truth Social post about the ongoing war in Ukraine, saying that the Kremlin leader may need to "be dealt with differently.

Like many American leaders before him, US President Donald Trump is finding out that getting through to Russian President Vladimir Putin is not as easy as he might have thought.

President Donald Trump took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a Truth Social post about the ongoing war in Ukraine, saying that the Kremlin leader may need to "be dealt with differently.