Russian bombs hit dozens of civilian targets in Ukraine, killing at least 15
Russia's full-scale invasion is now in its fourth year, and the hostilities have heated up in recent weeks as Kyiv and Moscow failed to reach any agreement during two rounds of peace talks in Istanbul.
Russian troops are pressing on with a grinding advance in eastern Ukraine and have opened a new front in the Sumy region in the northeast, despite calls for a ceasefire from U.S. President Donald Trump, who promised to end the war quickly.
Zelenskyy was in Canada to attend the Group of Seven summit, hoping to gather more support for tighter sanctions against Russia and continued military aid for Ukraine.
He had also hoped to meet U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss weapons purchases, but Trump left the G7 summit a day early due to the situation in the Middle East, the White House said.
Trump has reoriented U.S. policy away from supporting Kyiv towards accepting Moscow's justifications for its invasion, and has so far resisted calls from European allies to impose tighter sanctions of Moscow for rejecting his calls for a ceasefire.
At the summit, Trump called for the G7 to readmit Russia, which was expelled in 2014 after an earlier attack on Ukraine.
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