Moscow has inflicted another round of deadly strikes on Ukraine despite US President Donald Trump’s plea for Russian President Vladimir Putin to “STOP!” attacking its neighbor.

President Donald Trump issued a rare rebuke of Russian President Vladimir Putin after Russia launched a major attack on Ukraine overnight. He later said he believed Putin would listen to his plea to halt Russian strikes on Ukraine and expressed optimism about a potential peace deal.

Despite negotiations to end the war in Ukraine hitting a wall and a deadly Russian strike on the country's capital city early Thursday, President Donald Trump remained insistent that talks had made "a lot of progress.