Russia launched a major missile and drone attack into Ukraine overnight into Tuesday coinciding with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's visit to the U.S. this week, where the Ukrainian leader is seeking American and international support for Kyiv's "victory plan.

Ukraine’s president is dismissing the notion of peace talks with Moscow. He called instead for unspecified global “action” to force Russia into peace for invading his country and to comply with the U.

The leaders of Ukraine and Denmark said allied nations must lift restrictions on arms, increase their production and help Ukraine build weapons inside the country.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the U.N. was turning a blind eye to excesses committed by Ukrainian forces in their incursion into Russia's Kursk region, launched last month. Lavrov, in an interview with Russia's TASS news agency on the sidelines of the U.