And it meant Kuleba’s new rescue, a gray French bulldog named Marik, scooped from the wreckage of the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol, would spend the next couple of years overhearing foreign policy discussions as he waddled around the office. Such an arrangement might seem unusual for a foreign minister — but not in wartime Ukraine.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged Wednesday to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missile systems.

The dead included three children in the northern region of Zhytomyr, local officials said. Volodymyr Zelenskiy called on the U.S. to speak out.

Three open coffins, one adult-sized, one medium and one child-sized, lay inside the Soviet-era Palace of Culture in a northern Ukrainian city.

A Ukrainian official says Russian forces have taken over four border villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region.

It appears to be the first known strike in the war on a facility linked to the FSB, Moscow's main successor to the KGB.

A likely focus of talks between the two leaders will be military aid and whether Germany will provide Ukraine with the Taurus cruise missile.