Russia delivered one of the earliest reactions to the joint United States and Israeli strikes on Iran, with former president Dmitry Medvedev accusing Washington of abandoning diplomacy and exposing its real intentions.

Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine's National Security and Defense Council, is due to hold talks with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on Thursday in Geneva, Zelensky told reporters.

MOSCOW, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Russia questioned on Thursday how U.S. President Donald Trump's Board of Peace would work with the United Nations Security Council, which has served as the fulcrum of collective international peacemaking since the end of World War Two.

The Trump administration has been sending asylum seekers from Ukraine and Russia back to a warzone. One family in Minnesota says they fear for their lives.