By Yousef Saba and Gleb Bryanski RIYADH/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia that he expected the war in Ukraine to end within a year.

Hi, this is Tania Myronyshena reporting from Kyiv on day 1,343 of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Today's top story so far: Russian President Vladimir Putin is more determined than ever to continue his full-scale war against Ukraine and achieve further military gains,

VLADIMIR Putin has been secretly pummelling Ukraine with a banned missile for months – forcing Donald Trump to start testing nuclear weapons again. Ukraine reports the cruise missile,

Russia has deployed around 170,000 troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region where they are trying to capture the stronghold of Pokrovsk in a major push for a battlefield victory, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Friday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now believed to be more dug in than ever, according to a recent intelligence assessment.

As Trump's plan to meet Putin is called off, Zelenskyy says another bloody night in Ukraine shows Russia isn't feeling "enough pressure for dragging out the war."

Russia has successfully tested its nuclear-powered Burevestnik cruise missile and will work towards deploying the weapon, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Sunday, which comes as Moscow launched its second deadly attack on Ukraine in two nights.

President Donald Trump says his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold because he doesn’t want it to be a “waste of time.”

After he was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Trump essentially pressed pause — believing both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace, the official said.

The situation in Pokrovsk is difficult,” Zelensky said, while also rejecting recent Russian claims that the devastated city is surrounded after more than a year of fighting.