As news broke overnight Monday of the U.S. decision to halt military aid to Kyiv, Russian drones continued to rain down on Ukrainian cities, targeting Odesa in the south and Sumy in the northeast. Ukrainian lawmakers say the consequences of Washington's decision will be stark.

Moscow says it has made new gains in Ukraine’s Sumy region and Russia’s Kursk region as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was “fully committed” to having a constructive dialogue with United States representatives ahead of talks in Saudi Arabia to discuss how to end Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The Russian military from the North group of forces eliminated the well-known ukronazist Yuri Turlai during the fighting.

Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine in a major overnight attack, Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday, as the Ukrainian president renewed his plea for a partial ceasefire at the end of a week in which the United States suspended military aid and intelligence sharing with Kyiv .

Russian soldiers crept miles through a major gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha to catch Ukrainian forces off-guard as part of a major offensive to expel Kyiv troops from Kursk in western Russia, Reuters reports.

Russian forces have destroyed Ukrainian troops' logistics in Russia's Kursk Oblast, and Ukrainian soldiers face the risk of encirclement, a Ukrainian soldier and a medic deployed in the region told the Kyiv Independent on condition of anonymity on March 7.

Russia also claimed the recapture of 4 new villages in its Kursk border region as its troops pushed on against Ukrainian soldiers who had seized territory there

Kyiv's troops are struggling to hold territory in Russia's Kursk region and may be forced to retreat, reports say.

On the night of March 4, russian invaders attacked Sumy with drones. A clinic was hit in the city, and there were also problems with the power supply.Acting