Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told ABC News during an exclusive interview in Moscow on Monday that he believes the warring parties are close to a deal.

Ukraine says it has carried out a historic first in the war with Russia, claiming its underwater drones struck a Russian submarine docked at the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk. According to Ukraine’s Security Service,

Ukraine claimed it carried out an underwater drone strike on Dec. 15, the first such attack in maritime warfare, that critically damaged a Russian Kilo-class attack submarine at the Russian port of Novorossiysk,

Amid Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Kyiv would accept legally binding security guarantees from the United States and other European Nations., World News,

A senior Kremlin official says Russian police and the National Guard will stay on in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if a peace settlement ends the war.

Ukraine claims it has carried out the first successful combat strike by an underwater drone against a submarine, damaging a Russian Kilo-class boat in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and potentially removing a key cruise missile launch platform from the war.

Every winter Russia targets Ukraine’s energy sector, but this year the attacks are fiercer, and the power outages are worse than ever.