Wishful thinking won't get Ukraine or Russia out of their three-year-long war -- and that's the message President Donald Trump and his administration apparently delivered to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Ukrainian President Zelenskyy ready for direct talks with Russia pending common understanding with US and Europe.

Hours before Vance and Zelenskyy were set to meet, a Russian drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective confinement shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the Kyiv region, the Ukrainian president said. Radiation levels have not increased, Zelenskyy and the U.N. atomic agency said.