President Trump said on Thursday that a phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had not resulted in any movement toward ending the war in Ukraine, adding that he was “not happy” with the conflict grinding on. “I didn’t make any progress with him at all,” Mr. Trump told reporters.

I didn’t make any progress with him today at all,” Trump said of Putin, speaking to reporters as he left Washington to deliver a speech in Iowa. According to a Kremlin briefing on the call, Trump urged Putin to quickly end the war in Ukraine but Putin refused.

We also talked about the war with Ukraine and I’m not happy about that,” the president said before boarding Air Force One for a trip to Iowa for an event celebrating the nation’s 250th anniversary. “No,

The dissidents said that alongside prisoners of war, thousands of Ukrainian civilian "hostages" were being held by Russia.

Exclusive photos and video have emerged from a large-scale prisoner exchange conducted by Ukraine and Russia on July 4, according to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). "Today's exchange is the result of the work of the Joint Center for the Coordination of the Search and Release of Prisoners of War,