US President Donald Trump was reportedly ready to cut short talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska due to Putin's intransigence over his demand to annex the entire Donetsk Oblast. Source: Axios,

ANALYSIS: Trump’s call to the Kremlin mid-session with Europe’s leaders is not good news, Sam Kiley, world affairs editor, says

White House officials won’t yet share publicly what they learned during Friday’s private summit between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska. That information is likely to trickle out this week after an urgent and highly unusual entourage of European leaders descends on Washington for talks with Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymir Zelenskyy.

Russia's demands to transfer control over part of Donetsk region to it imply Ukraine's abandonment of a well-fortified defensive line, while containing neither guarantees of abandonment of any territories that the Russian side currently controls,

US President Donald Trump has been reportedly ready to cut short talks with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin in Alaska due to Putin’s intransigence over his demand to annex the entire Donetsk Oblast. Source: Axios,

Russian forces struck the city of Sloviansk in Donetsk Oblast on the late evening of 18 August - at the same time as multilateral talks on ending the Russo-Ukrainian war were under way in Washington.

According to ISW analysts, Putin continues to rely on slow, grinding infantry assaults, limiting the pace at which Russian forces can advance. Ukraine’s drone strikes have significantly undermined Russia’s ability to deploy heavy equipment on the battlefield,

The strikes hit warehouses in the village of Bilokurakyne, located on a key railway line supplying Russian forces on the Pokrovsk front, where Moscow is focusing its primary offensive efforts.

"Ukrainians will not gift their land to the occupier," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said earlier this month.

Dec 3 (Reuters) - Russia is likely planning to encircle the Donetsk Oblast town of Bakhmut with tactical advances to the north and south, Britain's defence ministry said on Saturday.

U.S. President Donald Trump began to actively push Ukraine to accept losing its land and people to Russia, following years of brutal, all-out war. People in Kramatorsk, the largest Ukrainian-held city in Donetsk Oblast — a region that Russia wants and Trump is thinking of handing over in full — have met the recent news