The comments come a day after Trump said Ukraine could win back all of its territory from Russia, which he characterised as a 'paper tiger' with a failing economy - a major pivot in his stance on the three-and-a-half-year conflict.

Ukraine's armed forces face a challenging fall as Russia intensifies efforts to seize the eastern Donetsk region

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia and Ukraine swapped accusations of deadly drone strikes on civilian areas of their countries Monday as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy anticipated “a very intense week” of diplomacy at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, where the Security Council was due to discuss the more than three-year war.

The president posted on Truth Social after he met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly in New York.

Ukrainian forces struck the 8-N linear production dispatching station near the village of Naitopovichi in Russia's Bryansk Oblast overnight on Sept. 23, Ukraine's General Staff reported.

With little chance of NATO membership for Ukraine, the country’s Western allies have bought into an alternate strategy for helping it repel Russia: invest billions in Ukraine’s weapons industry so it can better defend itself.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said attacks took place across nine regions, including Dnipropetrovsk, Mykolaiv, Chernihiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy and Kharkiv.

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab says Russia's network of sites for Ukrainian children is larger than previously thought, and programs includes military training for children as young as 8.