According to SANA, Putin and the Syrian ministers discussed a range of defence-related matters, including developing military cooperation to strengthen the Syrian army’s capabilities and ‌modernising its equipment, transferring expertise and cooperation in research and development.

Syria's foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday to discuss expanding military, political and economic cooperation, with a focus on strategic collaboration in defence industries,

A four-year-old girl died when a residential building was struck by a drone in the latest Russian attack on Ukraine.

However, Russian officials, who over the weekend held their own talks with the U.S. team in the Sunshine State, continued to downplay any sense of progress and Moscow still shows little sign of yielding from the maximalist war demands that Ukraine surrender territory, reduce its army and never join NATO.

Damascus's foreign and defence ministers met Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday during a visit to Moscow where they discussed military cooperation, Syrian state media said. The trip is the latest by Syria's new authorities to Russia since they ousted longtime ruler and Moscow ally Bashar al-Assad last December.

Zelensky says Russia fired more than 600 drones and 30 missiles - footage on social media captured the moment a drone hit a block of flats in Kyiv.

The Kremlin rejected a reported assessment by U.S. intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin still seeks the entirety of Ukraine and harbors ambitions to retake the former Soviet states now within the NATO alliance.

Sen. Lindsey Graham fretted that President Trump’s envoys to negotiate an end to the bloody Ukraine war are “overestimating” Russian tyrant Vladimir Putin’s

Putin said at an annual meeting with top military officers that Moscow will move to expand a “buffer security zone” along the border.

Putin claims no "willingness from Ukraine" to negotiate a peace deal as he touts battlefield gains, and Kyiv claims a brazen strike on a ship far from Russia.