And earlier this week, the European Commission said a plane carrying its top leader Ursula Von der Leyen was targeted with GPS navigation jamming while landing in Bulgaria on Sunday and that Russia was suspected. Moscow blasted the claim as “fake” and a symptom of European “paranoia.”

The idea for a buffer zone to protect Ukraine, part of a tentative plan to guarantee its security, would have to be agreed upon in any peace deal.

A deal to bring the war in eastern Europe to a close still seems unlikely in the near future, despite U.S. determination to clinch a deal.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Friday that Ukraine would continue to respond to Russian attacks on its energy facilities, despite criticism from Slovakia and Hungary which have suffered Russian oil supply disruptions as a result.

Now almost three weeks after his high-stakes Alaskan summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump is growing increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress on peace.

Global superpower France will make a belated start to its 2026 World Cup qualifying campaign as it faces Ukraine in Poland on Friday.

The action comes a year after the Ukrainian Parliament passed a law banning the Moscow-based Russian Orthodox Church due to its strong support of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

Expert recap and game analysis of the France vs. Ukraine Fifa World Cup Qualifying - Uefa game from September 5, 2025 on ESPN.