The United States will withdraw from mediating peace talks between Ukraine and Russia if both nations refuse to make territorial concessions, Vice President J.D. Vance said on April 22, according to Bloomberg.

The number of injured in the April 22 Russian precision-guided bomb airstrike on the Ukrainian administrative center of Zaporizhzhya has risen to 42, regional Governor Ivan Fedorov reported on Telegram the following day.

Peace talks scheduled for April 23 in London under UK Foreign Secretary David Lammy were downgraded to official-level negotiations and closed to the media, as foreign ministers from the UK, US, France, Germany, and Ukraine postponed their planned high-level…

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio voiced concerns that Ukraine might return to its earlier rigid positions in peace negotiations with Russia, which could prevent any breakthrough, Reuters reported on April 23, citing an unnamed European official.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said peace talks in London on a Ukraine ceasefire were canceled due to disagreements on “some issues,” according to Russian state media on April 23.

Mykhailo Ternavskyi, a 22-year-old from Sumy Oblast, dreamed of a military career since childhood. After completing mandatory service at 18, he joined Ukraine’s Third Assault Brigade in March 2024. In January 2025, while defending Ukraine in Luhansk Oblast…

An explosion was heard in Odesa, according to reports from local Telegram channels on April 23.

A man who was critically injured in a Russian attack on April 22 has died in a Kharkiv hospital, Oleh Synehubov said on April 23.

Adam Kadyrov, the 17-year-old son of Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov, has been named secretary of the Chechen Republic’s Security Council, marking his sixth official role, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Kavkaz.Realii reported on April 23.

Lower-level officials from the U.S., U.K., Ukraine, France, and Germany began peace talks in London to end Russia’s war in Ukraine, replacing a planned ministerial summit, Sky News reported on April 23.

A Russian aerial bomb hit a high-rise building in Zaporizhzhya where a 69-year-old man and his dog Kosmos lived, Suspilne Zaporizhzhya reported on April 23.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy called for an “immediate, full, and unconditional” ceasefire in the war with Russia, describing it as the “absolutely reasonable position” previously backed by the United States on March 11, he said in a post on X.

Ukraine is ready for negotiations but not for capitulation, First Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on X on April 23.

Russia must increase defense production in preparation for potential future wars, during a meeting of the Military-Industrial Commission, Russian dictator Vladimir Putin stated on April 23.

A Russian kamikaze drone struck a civilian bus carrying workers in Marhanets, Nikopol district, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, on the morning of April 23, killing nine people—seven women and two men—and injuring 49, according to regional governor Serhiy Lysak.

Russia will no longer hold sway anywhere in Europe, Poland’s Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski said on April 23, delivering a sharp rebuke during his annual address to the Sejm, Poland’s parliament, according to the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Dmitry Peskov, spokesperson for Russian President Vladimir Putin, rejected the notion that U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance’s statement about exiting peace negotiations constituted an ultimatum, according to Russian state media on April 23.

Moscow has refused to extradite toppled dictator Bashar al-Assad to Syria, Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview with The New York Times on April 23.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will arrive in South Africa on Thursday, April 24, with an official visit, German broadcaster DW reported on April 23.

Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal met with U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent in Washington to discuss the financials of U.S.–Ukrainian relations going forward, Shmyhal said in a Telegram post on April 23.