Ukrainian refugees, elected officials, and former politicians said supporting Ukraine against Russia is a matter of global stability, especially as the Trump administration begins talks on ending the conflict.

Russia launched a barrage of heavy drone attacks on Sunday, while President Trump's push to align with Russian President Vladimir Putin has Ukrainians on edge.

And, for that matter, for the people of the Republic of Georgia, who have been watching the war in Ukraine with growing horror, realizing that their own fledgling democracy is yet more vulnerable to the same force, to the same man with a friend now back in one of the world’s highest places, if not the highest.

Ukraine has the right to its existence and its self-determination," Cardinal Blase Cupich told hundreds gathered at Holy Name Cathedral to pray for peace and honor the dead at the three-year mark of war.

As the administration in Washington grows critical of Ukraine, hundreds waving flags filled the Wrigley Building plaza downtown Saturday to call for an end to the war.

Ukraine and the U.S. have reached an agreement on a framework for a broad economic deal that would include access to Ukraine’s rare earth minerals, three senior Ukrainian officials said Tuesday.

Everyone - from leaders in Russia and Europe to Donald Trump and Arizona's senior senator - is lying about the war in Ukraine.

Analysts questions the size of Ukraine’s natural resources deposits, how accessible they are and easy to extract, and the ultimate value of a potential deal.

Trump said going through what he called the the "Russia hoax" ordeal gives him confidence he can trust Putin in talks about the war in Ukraine that the Kremlin launched three year ago.

Ukraine and the United States reached an agreement over access to Kyiv’s deposits of rare earth minerals, according to media reports.