Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told ABC News during an exclusive interview in Moscow on Monday that he believes the warring parties are close to a deal.

Kyiv has now expressed readiness to drop its bid to join the NATO military alliance if the U.S. and other Western nations give it similar security guarantees.

The Kremlin has described Ukraine’s push to join NATO as one of the “root causes” of the conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out Ukrainian membership in the Western defensive alliance. Zelensky is searching for compromises that could secure a peace deal to end Russia’s ongoing invasion.

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.

The latest overnight attacks come as US envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to hold more talks with Ukraine's president.

Russia is pushing to take over all of eastern Ukraine's Donbas region, where one resident tells NPR that she feels her "life depends on how our guys at the front hold on."

The United States, Ukraine and major European countries have reached consensus on 90 percent of terms for a deal to end Ukraine’s war with Russia, two senior U.S. officials said Monday, but

Germany is ramping up its military operations amid security concerns over the Russia-Ukraine war. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorious talked about the rearming on "60 Minutes." Isaac Stanley Becker,