The attack came as U.S. officials were expected to hold peace talks with Ukrainian and Russian officials in the coming days.

A push by the Trump administration to end Russia's war on Ukraine appears to make headway, with Kyiv saying Zelenskyy could visit D.C. within days to finalize a deal.

Russia is threatening to reject President Donald Trump's Ukraine peace plan unless "key understandings" from his Alaska summit with President Putin are upheld.

A Putin ally has called for more detail in Trump's peace plan for Ukraine. Follow Newsweek's live coverage of the war.

A Russian air assault across Ukraine on Saturday killed at least two people and injured dozens more, according to the Ukrainian authorities.

President Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia are making progress in peace talks but called the conflict difficult to solve on Tuesday night.

Russian drone and missile attacks in and around Kyiv have killed at least three people. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has sent a delegation to the U.S. to push for an end to the war.

During Trump’s first term, Kushner led the president’s push for Arab states to normalise ties with Israel. More recently he was called on to help broker a deal between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. Now his task is to silence the guns and drones on the front lines in the Donbas. Kushner did not respond to a request for an interview for this article.