A 1,000-strong "dark fleet" of rogue tankers evading sanctions has become a new target for the U.S. and Ukraine, according to a senior maritime intelligence analyst.

The European Union’s effort to tap Russian assets as the main source of international funding for Ukraine is becoming “increasingly difficult” as leaders struggle to agree on a framework, the bloc’s top foreign policy official said.

Washington has tried for months to navigate the demands of each side as President Trump presses for a swift end to Russia’s war and grows increasingly exasperated by delays.

Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of drone attacks overnight.

Ukraine said it hit a major oil refinery and an oil depot in Russia as US President Donald Trump dispatched envoys to Berlin for another round of talks on how to end the war that Russian President Vladimir Putin started in 2022.

Russia's central bank says it is suing Belgium's Euroclear in court following an EU bid to use Russian assets to aid Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said this week his country could be ready to hold elections in the next 60 to 90 days if security could be guaranteed, seeking to push back on claims by US President Donald Trump that he is using the war with Russia to cling to power.

Ukraine and its allies are scrambling to keep Trump onside as the U.S. piles pressure on Kyiv to make a peace deal.