Crowds of protestors gathered in cities and towns across the nation on Saturday to protest against President Trump. And there is no sign of a breakthrough to end the government shutdown.

The president met with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, and later stated that the fighting should end and that territorial lines should be where the battle lines are today.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy revealed in an exclusive interview on NBC's Meet the Press that Russian President Vladimir Putin is "afraid" of the U.S. delivering Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine,

Every Monday, first period, children aged 6 to 18 sit at their desks to learn about “serving the motherland,” “restoring historical justice” in Crimea, and why modern Russian soldiers are real heroes, unlike “fictional” Western superheroes. Since 2022, Russian schoolchildren have attended 102 such lessons.

Trump said Secretary of State Marco Rubio would meet with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov as soon as next week to lay the groundwork for the Budapest summit.

President Donald Trump said "tremendous bad blood" between Zelenskyy and Putin is delaying a peace deal from happening with the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the next generation of the country's political leadership must be veterans of the Ukraine war. Putin made the comments during a meeting with different factions of the Russian State Duma and spoke of the participation of Ukraine war veterans in elections.