As Russian President Vladimir Putin explores a potential peace settlement to end the war in Ukraine, hawkish anti-Western nationalists at home are waging a campaign to keep the conflict going.

On May 5, Ukraine's National Guard released a clip it said showed how it used drones to rebuff a Russian motorcycle onslaught of troops trying to plant their flag on the ruins of a building. The video ends with the bodies of wounded or dead Russian soldiers lying next to their motorcycles.

Eurovision band Ziferblat of Ukraine sings their national anthem with Ukrainian people during a family meeting in a park in Basel as part of the 69th Eurovision Song Contest week, in Basel, Switzerland, Thursday, May 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Russia’s ubiquitous T-72 tank, a Cold War mainstay, has suffered catastrophic losses in Ukraine, with estimates exceeding 1,200 destroyed. Its outdated design proves highly vulnerable to modern anti-tank missiles like the Javelin (exploiting weak top armor) and cheap FPV drones.

The Ukrainian air force says Russia launched more than 100 Shahed and decoy drones at Ukraine in nighttime attacks, after the Kremlin rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the more than 3-year

Ukraine, which was subject to a full-scale invasion in 2022 and saw Russia annex Crimea in 2014, says it needs security guarantees from the major powers - primarily the United States. It wants more than the 1994 Budapest Memorandum under which Russia,

Russian troops attacked an industrial infrastructure facility in Sumy, according to the acting mayor of Sumy, Artem Kobzar, and the Sumy Regional Military Administration. "The explosion that has just been heard in the city is the result of a Russian strike on an industrial infrastructure facility,

Moscow resumed its drone attacks on Ukraine hours after president Volodymyr Zelensky challenged Russian president Vladimir Putin to meet “personally” for peace talks this week.A Ukrainian locomotive driver of a civilian freight train was injured this morning in a Russian drone attack,