Follow live updates from NBC News as Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks at his annual year-end news conference on Ukraine, peace, war and Trump.

On December 20, as many as 235 combat engagements between the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded along the front line, including 72 in the Pokrovsk sector. — Ukrinform.

U.S. administration officials signaled Monday a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than ever.

Two days of talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky and allies have brought some progress on security guarantees, but Russia remains opposed to any foreign forces in Ukraine.

This incident once again underscores the continued fragility of nuclear safety conditions amid the conflict, IAEA Director General Rafael Mariano Grossi said today. In the early hours of 13 December,

Reporting his team's progress in Berlin, the US president stated that they are closer to a peace deal than “we have been ever”.

A US peace proposal that became public last month was criticised for being tilted heavily toward Moscow because it granted some of the Kremlin's core demands that Kyiv has rejected as nonstarters. , World News,

President Volodymyr Zelensky met with Defense Minister Denys Shmyhal and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov on Nov. 29 and ordered a revision of Ukraine's core defense documents. The move comes as Russia intensifies offensive operations in ...

Gold price loses momentum below $4,300 during the early European trading hours on Tuesday, pressured by some profit-taking and weak long liquidation from the shorter-term futures traders. Furthermore, optimism around Ukraine peace talks could weigh on the safe-haven asset like Gold.

A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa, southern Ukraine, has killed eight people and wounded 27 others, according to Ukraine’s Emergency Service