Ukraine and the United States are in the final stages of negotiating a minerals deal considered central to ending Russia's three-year-old war in Ukraine, a senior Ukrainian official said on Monday.

The U.S. and Ukraine pushed divergent messages over the weekend, with Kyiv pressing for better terms to the mineral-rights deal sought by President Trump, while Washington urged Ukraine to swiftly accept the proposal already on the table.

A man died in a hospital and a 30-year-old woman was seriously injured in the missile attacks on the central city of Kryvyi Rih, Serhiy Lysak, governor of the Dnipropetrovsk region, said on the Telegram messaging app.

Russia launched a massive attack on Ukraine ahead of the third anniversary of its full-scale invasion. The occupiers fired a record number of drones and used ballistic missiles. What is known about the consequences of the massive shelling on the night of February 23 — detailed in the RBC-Ukraine report below.