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A Ukrainian serviceman prepares to fire a M777 howitzer towards Russian positions at the frontline near Donetsk, Ukraine, Monday, March 3, 2025. (AP Photo/Roman Chop)

Zelenskyy calls Oval Office spat with Trump ‘regrettable,’ says he’s ready to work for Ukraine peace

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says last week’s Oval Office blowup with U.S. counterpart Donald Trump was “regrettable,” and he adds, “It is time to make things right.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in a plenary during the Securing our Future Summit on Ukraine and European security at Lancaster House in London, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)

Without US help, Zelenskyy has few options except to repair his relationship with the White House

Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer, right, and France's President Emmanuel Macron at the European leaders' summit to discuss Ukraine, at Lancaster House, London, Sunday March 2, 2025. (Justin Tallis/Pool via AP)

Starmer and Macron step up to shape European security as Trump roils relations

Russian President Vladimir Putin, right, speaks with the Head of Republic of Tatarstan Rustam Minnikhanov during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Monday, Mar. 3, 2025. (Mikhail Metzel, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russia relishes Trump-Zelenskyy spat and accuses Ukraine and European allies of warmongering

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, is greeted by President Donald Trump, center, as he arrives at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Trump pauses US military aid to Ukraine while pressuring Zelenskyy to move toward quick end to war

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Ukrainians seek shelter in subway and damaged homes on second night of heavy Russian drone strikes

The fresh wave of Russian attacks came hours after Moscow launched almost 500 drones at Ukraine in the biggest overnight drone bombardment in the three-year war. Ukrainian and Western officials have been anticipating a Russian response to Ukraine’s audacious June 1 drone attack on distant Russian air bases. (AP Video by Vasilisa Stepanenko)

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Mourners gather for Kyiv funeral of rescuers killed in Russian strike

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Kyiv mayor says Russian missile and drone attack kills at least four and injures 20 others

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FILE - Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Moscow, on Friday, June 14, 2024. Putin says that Moscow isn't seeking quick gains in Ukraine and will stick to the current strategy of slow advances as it presses a grinding summer offensive. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, File)

Russia presses its offensive in Ukraine and issues new threats as the West tries to blunt the push

Under curfew, Ukrainians mark midsummer with bonfire jumping at a festival with pagan roots

Ukrainian young women dressed in traditional clothing dance under heavy rain at a traditional Midsummer Night celebration near capital Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, June 23, 2024. The age-old pagan festival is still celebrated in Ukraine amid the third year of Russia-Ukraine war. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Under curfew, Ukrainians mark midsummer with bonfire jumping at a festival with pagan roots

A barman is seen working through the window of a coffee shop during power cuts in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, June 7, 2024. Ukraine, including Kyiv, is struggling to cope with a new wave of rolling blackouts after relentless Russian attacks took out half the country’s power generation capacity. (AP Photo/Alex Babenko)

Navigating through darkness: Ukraine’s emergency blackouts return after Russia pounds infrastructure

Romanian President Klaus Iohannis exits a voting cabin during European and local elections in Bucharest, Romania, Sunday, June 9, 2024. Voters across the European Union are going to the polls on the final day of voting for the European parliamentary elections to choose their representatives for the next five-year term. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)

NATO member Romania to send a Patriot missile system to neighboring Ukraine

A seller shines a flashlight during a power outage in an underground shopping mall in central Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, June 19, 2024. Russian regular massive missile attacks against Ukraine's energy facilities have resulted in electricity supply restrictions having been applied throughout the country. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Russia hammers Ukraine’s power grid again and Kyiv’s drones target more enemy oil depots

The nuclear-powered Russian submarine Kazan leaves the port of Havana, Cuba, Monday, June 17, 2024. A fleet of Russian warships arrived in Cuban waters last week ahead of planned military exercises in the Caribbean. (AP Photo/Ariel Ley)

Russian warships leave Havana’s port after a 5-day visit to Cuba

United States Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, front center, shakes hands with Germany's Defense Minister Boris Pistorius, center row left, during a group photo of NATO defense ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

NATO approves a plan to speed security aid and training to Ukraine’s beleaguered armed forces

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting at the Russian Foreign Ministry in Moscow, Russia, Friday, June 14, 2024. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

Putin offers truce if Ukraine exits Russian-claimed areas and drops NATO bid. Kyiv rejects it

FILE - Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a press conference with his Sweden's counterpart Ulf Kristersson at the Carmelite Monastery in Budapest, Hungary, on Feb 23, 2024. Hungary's prime minister says that he will seek to opt his country out of any NATO operations aimed at supporting Ukraine. Prime Minister Viktor Orbán told state radio on Friday, May 24, 2024 that Hungary opposes a plan NATO is weighing to provide more predictable military support to Ukraine. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos, File)

Hungary’s Orbán pushes back on EU and NATO proposals to further assist Ukraine

FILE - The Storm Shadow cruise missile is on display during the Paris Air Show in Le Bourget, north of Paris, France, on June 19, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron has called for Western countries to let Ukraine strike military bases inside Russia with the sophisticated long-range weapons they are providing to Kyiv. It is the most recent sign of a potentially significant policy shift that could help change the complexion of the war. (AP Photo/Lewis Joly, File)

France’s Macron urges a green light for Ukraine to strike targets inside Russia with Western weapons

United States Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo walks in the city center during an official visit to Kyiv, Ukraine, on Wednesday, May 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

US Treasury official visits Ukraine to discuss sanctions on Moscow and seizing Russian assets

Belgium pledges 30 F-16 jets to Ukraine, and $1 billion in funding, as NATO and EU drum up support

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, is welcomed by Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo prior their meeting at the prime ministers' office in Brussels, Tuesday, May 28, 2024. (Kenzo Tribouillard/Pool Photo via AP)

Belgium commits $1 billion to Ukraine as Zelenskyy continues his whistlestop European tour

Secretary of State Antony Blinken speaks during a Senate Foreign Relations hearing to examine the President's proposed budget request for fiscal year 2025 for the Department of State, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib)

US announces $275M in new military assistance for Ukraine

Servicemen of Ukraine's 93rd Mechanised Brigade fire a French MO-120-RT heavy mortar at the Russian forces on the front line near the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's Donetsk region on Wednesday, May 22, 2024. (Iryna Rybakova via AP)

Russian missiles kill 7 in Ukraine’s second-largest city as Moscow’s troops press offensive

FILE - Treasure Secretary Janet Yellen speaks during an American Partnership for Economic Prosperity meeting with finance ministers at the Treasury Department, on April 19, 2024, in Washington. What to do with the Russian central bank reserves frozen in response to the invasion of Ukraine is at the top of the agenda as finance officials from the Group of Seven rich democracies meet Thursday through Saturday in Stresa, Italy, on the shores of scenic Lago Maggiore. “Securing Ukraine’s position in the medium-to-long term requires unlocking the value of immobilized Russian sovereign assets,” U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)

With Ukraine losing ground, allies debate how to squeeze cash for Kyiv out of frozen Russian assets

German's Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock speaks to Ukrainian Energy Minister Herman Halushchenko during official visit to a thermal power plant which was destroyed by a Russian rocket attack in Ukraine, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Russian attacks on Ukraine power grid touch Kyiv with blackouts ahead of peak demand

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, shakes hands with German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 21, 2024. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Germany’s foreign minister says in Kyiv that air defenses are an ‘absolute priority’ for Ukraine

Ukraine’s divisive mobilization law comes into force as a new Russian push strains frontline troops

A newly recruited soldier of the 3rd assault brigade trains, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, May 17, 2024. A divisive mobilisation law in Ukraine came into force on Saturday, as Kyiv struggles to boost troop numbers after Russia launched a new offensive. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine’s divisive mobilization law comes into force as a new Russian push strains front-line troops

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken performs "Rockin' in the Free World" with members of The 1999 band at the Barman Dictat bar in Kyiv, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Blinken sought Tuesday to rally the spirits of glum Ukrainians facing a fierce new Russian offensive, assuring them that they are not alone and that billions of dollars in American military aid on its way to the country would make a “real difference” on the battlefield. (Brendan Smialowski/Pool photo via AP)

Blinken’s Kyiv song choice raises eyebrows as Ukraine fights fierce Russian attacks

Blinken sings and plays guitar in Kyiv night club

Blinken meets Ukrainian prime minister in Kyiv

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In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, left, greets U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, right, prior to their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, May 14, 2024. Blinken arrived in Kyiv on Tuesday in an unannounced diplomatic mission to reassure Ukraine that it has American support as it struggles to defend against increasingly intense Russian attacks. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

Blinken in Kyiv tries to rally sagging Ukrainian spirits as Russia makes new military gains

Search for survivors after apartment block collapses in Russia border city after heavy shelling

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Police, police evacuate elderly people following the Russian attack around the town of Vovchansk in Kharkiv region, Ukraine, Friday, May 10, 2024. (Ukrainian Police via AP)

Ukraine says Russia is trying to break through its defenses in the northeastern Kharkiv region

Ukrainian serviceman Andrii, left, of the Air Assault Forces 148th separate artillery brigade, sends receiving coordinates for a Furia drone at the frontline in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Thursday May 9, 2024. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says Russia has the initiative in the east but new Western aid is on the way

Kosovo's foreign minister and deputy prime minister Donika Gërvalla-Schwarz speaks to The Associated Press in Warsaw, Poland, on Wednesday May 8, 2024. Kosovo's foreign minister said Wednesday that her country is convinced that Russia must lose the war in Ukraine in order for conflict not to spread further in Europe, stressing that her young nation's support for Ukraine is unconditional even though Kyiv has not recognized Kosovo's independence. (AP Photo/Czarek Sokolowski)

Kosovo backs Ukraine even though Kyiv has not recognized its independence, foreign minister says