Russia launched multiple drone and missile strikes on Ukraine as the latest peace attempts by US President Donald Trump appeared to be floundering.

The US and Russian leader had been set to meet in Budapest but Moscow has rejected calls for an immediate ceasefire

Trump wants Russia and Ukraine to freeze the war on the current battlelines, with Moscow holding a huge swathe of eastern Ukraine.

Athletes from Russia and Belarus will not be allowed to compete as neutral athletes in qualification events for next year's Winter Olympics after FIS vote.

U.S. president wants a swift end to the conflict, but both sides are digging in over the region in Ukraine’s east.

DONALD Trump’s crunch talks with Vladimir Putin in Hungary have now collapsed, the White House has confirmed. It comes after US Secretary of State Marco Rubio was due to meet with

Kremlin envoy Kirill Dmitriev floated the tunnel idea late on Thursday after Putin spoke to Trump by phone and agreed to meet in Budapest.

Slovakia, a holdout against supporting the European Union's 19th sanctions package against Russia, says it will back the measures if its demands are met during a summit of the bloc's leaders this week,

President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy outlined a plan for U.S.-Russia tunnel connecting Alaska and Siberia through Bering Strait within eight years at $8 billion cost.

Russia said Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Marco Rubio came to no agreement on a meeting during phone talks, casting a shadow over preparations for a planned summit between their presidents aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump called a proposed tunnel from Russia to Alaska 'interesting' and said he would 'have to think about that.'

Ukraine's defense ministry said it continues to hit Russia's industries, "weakening the offensive potential of the aggressor state."