Russian troops currently control about 20% of Ukrainian territory, but the Ukrainian constitution forbids giving up territory or trading land.

President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy are meeting today at the White House in further talks to end the war in Ukraine. Trump met Russian President Vladimir Putin Aug. 15, at a summit in Alaska to discuss potential pathways to stop the war. Zelenskyy wasn’t invited to that meeting.

The Russian Ministry of Defense showed a map on which the Mykolaiv and Odesa regions are separated from Ukraine, according to Russian media. Behind Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces,

Russia has occupied a fifth of Ukrainian territory - and a big map showing the area shaded in red was put up in the Oval Office as if to emphasise that point for President Donald Trump's talks with Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday.

Russia is maintaining its demand that any peace deal should involve Ukraine ceding the regions it has occupied or part occupied: Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Kherson and Zaporizhzhia. But new evidence has come to light suggesting that Putin’s territorial ambitions in Ukraine go well beyond those regions.

A magnitude 7.8 earthquake struck off the Pacific coast of Russia in the same area where an even bigger quake hit earlier this year. A tsunami advisory has been issued.

Polish fighter jets, with help from NATO allies, shot down multiple Russian drones that entered its eastern border early on Sept. 10. It was the first time the NATO member directly engaged with Russian military assets in its airspace since Moscow's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.