KHARKIV, Ukraine -- When Russia’s full-scale invasion began nearly four years ago, a 26-year-old soldier known as Monka didn’t see a combat role she could do. But that changed as technology reshaped the battlefield and opened new paths.

The officials in a joint statement said they made progress on creating a security framework for postwar Ukraine and are urging Russia to commit to peace.

First lady Melania Trump announced that seven children have returned to their families in Ukraine as part of a Russia-Ukraine reunification initiative.

Dressed head to toe in army fatigues, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday received the news he had been awaiting for more than a year: Russia had taken over the eastern Ukrainian city of Pokrovsk.

Ukrainian member of parliament Lisa Yasko told CBS News the Russian president is using the discussions with the U.S. to push his vision of the new world order.

Exclusive drone footage obtained by The Associated Press shows a devastated Ukrainian town nearly encircled by Russian forces near the city that Moscow this week claimed to now control.

Putin has repeatedly falsely claimed to capture Ukrainian cities prematurely.

A Ukrainian operator who survived the attack told Business Insider that he credits the vehicle driver with saving the crew's lives.

Top U.S. officials and a Ukrainian delegation met in Florida on Sunday for the latest round of discussions on a plan to end Russia's war in Ukraine — talks both sides described positively but provided no details and took no questions.

In a disused warehouse at an undisclosed location in Ukraine, a military drone instructor who goes by the call sign "DC" showed CBS News a makeshift practice course that students must learn to fly the increasingly indispensable devices through before they join the country's defense against Russia.