President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

But the extraordinary operation got a different response inside the White House: anger. Donald Trump has openly vented in recent weeks about Putin’s unwillingness to end the war. But since Sunday’s attack,

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday that a second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine was useful despite Kyiv's attempt to disrupt them by staging attacks Putin considered terrorism,