Mark Rutte's comments come a day after Putin rejected US proposals for peace in Ukraine after talks with US negotiators in Moscow.

U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow to bring a peace plan to end the nearly four-year war with Ukraine.

Col. Gen. Vladimir Chirkin said Moscow's leadership was "unprepared" and misled into thinking 70% of Ukrainians supported Russia.

Russia launched its largest barrage of drones and missiles in a month across Ukraine, killing at least three people, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday, as a Kyiv delegation heads to the United States for fresh peace talks.

The European Union has unveiled a plan to use frozen Russian assets to support Ukraine over the next two years.

Donald Trump said this week he does not know what the Kremlin is doing after peace talks in Moscow appeared to yield very little

Putin also claimed that Zelensky’s European allies have pushed for demands that are “absolutely unacceptable."

Ukraine has condemned two-time Olympic diver Sofiia Lyskun's switch to represent Russia and will try to strip her of awards. Lyskun, 23, told the Russian newspaper Izvestia this week that “coaches’ incompetence” was a factor in her decision.