64 m. ago Vast majority of Ukrainians reject major peace concessions, poll finds

Ukraine has sought to push back on an original U.S.-backed plan it and its European allies saw as favourable to Moscow, which is demanding that Kyiv give up its entire eastern Donbas region and significantly restrict its military capabilities. The poll, by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology, found that 72% of Ukrainians were prepared […]

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3 h. ago Ukraine peace talks stretch into second day at start of pivotal week for Europe

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy resumed talks with U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys in Berlin on Monday, after the U.S. side said a “lot of progress” had been made on ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two. Zelenskiy again met U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner after five hours of talks on […]

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3 d. ago Kremlin suggests it may not like new Ukraine peace proposals after recent US

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday that Moscow has not seen revised U.S. proposals made after the most recent talks with Ukraine, but that it may not like parts of them. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Kyiv had agreed on key points of a post-war reconstruction plan in talks with […]

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6 d. ago Ukraine to share revised peace plan with U.S. on Tuesday, Zelenskiy says

Ukraine will share a revised peace plan with the U.S. on Tuesday aimed at ending Russia’s war, after talks in London between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and the leaders of France, Germany and Britain. As the war nears its four-year mark, Kyiv, under pressure from the White House to agree quickly to a peace settlement, wants […]

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8 d. ago Ukraine peace plan gives Cyprus reasons to worry, IR expert says

Ukraine peace plan gives Cyprus reasons to worry, IR expert says  Philenews

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1 week ago Peace agreement must be based on full respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity

Peace agreement must be based on full respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity - President of Cyprus  Interfax-Ukraine

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1 week ago Our View: Finger on button, Putin blaming Europe for Ukraine crisis

As was widely expected, Tuesday’s talks between the United States and Russia made no progress towards a Ukraine peace deal. This was the view expressed by a Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov to the Russian media, after the five-hour meeting with President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]

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1 week ago Peace push falters as Putin rejects key US proposals on Ukraine

Russia and the U.S. did not reach a compromise on a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine after a five-hour Kremlin meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s top envoys, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly complained that ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two has been one […]

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1 week ago Putin warns Europe: if you want war, then Russia will defeat you

President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there would be no one left to even negotiate a peace deal. Almost four years into the war in Ukraine, the […]

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2 w. ago Russia unwilling to make concessions on Ukraine as leak shows Witkoff advised Moscow

Russia will make no big concessions on a peace plan for Ukraine, a senior Russian diplomat said on Wednesday, after a leaked recording of a call involving U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff showed he had advised Moscow on how to pitch to Donald Trump. Witkoff is expected to travel to Moscow next week with other senior […]

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2 w. ago Trump envoy Witkoff to discuss Ukraine peace moves in Moscow next week

President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Moscow next week with other senior U.S. officials for talks with Russian leaders about a possible peace plan for Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Trump is leading efforts to secure an agreement to end a war that has raged for nearly four years since Russian […]

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2 w. ago US peace plan for Ukraine traced to Russian proposal — sparks outrage and doubts

The U.S.-backed 28-point peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, which became public last week, drew from a Russian-authored paper submitted to the Trump administration in October, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The Russians shared the paper, which outlined Moscow’s conditions for ending the war, with senior U.S. officials in mid-October, […]

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2 w. ago Ukraine backs ‘essence’ of peace deal with Russia but sensitive issues linger

Ukraine on Tuesday signalled support for the framework of a peace deal with Russia but stressed that sensitive issues needed to be fixed at a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump. Kyiv’s message hinted that an intense diplomatic push by the Trump administration could be yielding some fruit but any optimism […]

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3 w. ago US, Ukraine work on ‘refined’ peace plan to end war with Russia

The United States and Ukraine sought on Monday to narrow the gaps in a peace plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify a U.S. proposal that Kyiv and its European allies saw as a Kremlin wish list. Washington and Kyiv said in a joint statement they had drafted a “refined peace […]

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3 w. ago Kremlin says it will wait to see how talks between US and Ukraine on a potential peace plan pan out

The Kremlin said on Monday that it would wait to see how talks between the United States and Ukraine on a potential peace plan pan out, and would not be commenting on media reports about such a serious and complex issue. The United States and Ukraine said in a joint statement after Sunday’s talks in […]

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3 w. ago Trump presses Ukraine for deal as Zelenskiy weighs revised peace plan

The United States and Ukraine were set to continue work on Monday on a plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify an earlier proposal that was widely seen as too favorable to Moscow. The two sides said in a joint statement they had drafted a “refined peace framework” after talks in […]

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3 w. ago Putin says US peace plan can be the basis for peace in Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Moscow had received the US proposals for peace in Ukraine and that the plan could be the basis of a peaceful resolution of the conflict. “I believe that it can be used as the basis for a final peaceful settlement,” Putin told senior officials in televised comments, […]

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3 w. ago EU leaders meet Saturday to discuss Ukraine peace, von der Leyen and Costa say

EU leaders will meet on Saturday in the margins of the G20 meeting in Johannesburg to discuss the situation in Ukraine, EU leaders Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa said on Friday. “We have spoken to President Zelenskiy. We have discussed the current situation and we are clear that there should be nothing about […]

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3 w. ago US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal

The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said. Washington has presented Ukraine with a 28-point plan, which endorses some of Russia’s principal demands in the war, including that Kyiv […]

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3 w. ago Europeans push back at US plan that would force concessions from Ukraine

European countries pushed back on Thursday against a U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions long seen by Ukraine’s allies as tantamount to capitulation. Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that Washington had signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy […]

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