Next week, an already very public debate over whether Ukraine should be allowed to use long-range Western-supplied missiles on Russian soil will come under an even brighter international spotlight.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that the end of the more than 2-1/2-year-old war with Russia depended on the "resolve" of Kyiv's Western allies in providing needed weaponry and permission to use it.

Ukrainian Defense Forces targeted and destroyed Russian arsenals in the Tver and Krasnodar regions of the Russian Federation early Saturday morning.

Russia will take no part in any follow-up to the Swiss-organized "peace summit" held in June as the process amounts to "fraud," Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Saturday.

Maria Zakharova, spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, has stated that Russia is not going to attend the second Peace Summit. Source: press service for Russia's Foreign Ministry, citing Zakharova Details: Zakharova called the preparation for the second Peace Summit "yet another manifestation of the fraud by the Anglo-Saxons and their Ukrainian puppets" who want to "push the absolutely unviable Zelenskyy formula as the sole basis for resolving the conflict,

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova announced that Russia will not participate in any continuation of the peace summit organized in Switzerland in June. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky had not previously ruled out Moscow's participation in the talks.

Russian strikes have hit high-rise apartment blocks in Ukraine’s Kharkiv, leaving dozens wounded in a second consecutive nighttime attack this week

Russia has dropped more than 900 glide bombs on Ukraine this week, along with 400 Shahed drones and nearly 30 missiles, Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday. One barrage on Friday injured at least 15 people in Kharkiv,

Russian reports say Ukrainian drones have struck a Russian arms depot deep inside the country, triggering explosions and the closure of a major highway.