10 h. ago Russia and Ukraine swap 307 soldiers on second day of POW exchange

Russia and Ukraine each exchanged 307 of their service personnel on Saturday on the second day of a prisoner exchange that, when completed, is set to be the largest such swap in the three-year war between the two countries. US President Donald Trump has suggested the prisoner swap – which should see 1,000 prisoners released […]

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16 h. ago Kyiv mayor says Russian drones, missiles trigger fires, injure eight

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv early on Saturday with drones and missiles, triggering fires, strewing debris in districts throughout the city and injuring at least eight people, the city’s mayor said. Reuters witnesses saw and heard successive waves of drones flying over Kyiv, and a series of explosions jolted the city. Mayor Vitali Klitschko said […]

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36 h. ago Russia casts doubt over Vatican as possible venue for talks with Ukraine

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov cast doubt on Friday over the Vatican as a potential location for peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, saying that the Holy See itself would find it uncomfortable to host two mainly Orthodox Christian nations. Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said on Tuesday that Pope Leo XIV had confirmed his […]

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3 d. ago Russia denies stalling peace talks, says no decision yet on venue

Russia on Wednesday rejected Ukrainian and European accusations it was trying to drag out the peace process around Ukraine, but said that no decision had yet been made on a venue for talks when askedif they could be hosted by the Vatican. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday “it would be great” for Russia […]

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5 d. ago Trump says Russia, Ukraine agree to immediate ceasefire talks, Kremlin offers no timeframe

Donald Trump said after his call on Monday with President Vladimir Putin that Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations for a ceasefire, but the Kremlin said the process would take time and the U.S. president indicated he was not ready to join Europe with fresh sanctions to pressure Moscow. In a social media post, […]

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5 d. ago Trump to speak to Putin amid ‘impasse’ on ending war in Ukraine

US President Donald Trump was due to speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday about peace in Ukraine after Washington said there was an impasse over ending Eu-rope’s deadliest conflict since World War Two. President Putin sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the gravest confrontation between Russia and the West since […]

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5 d. ago Trump speaks to Putin amid ‘impasse’ on ending war in Ukraine

US President Donald Trump spoke to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Monday about peace in Ukraine after Washington said there was an impasse over ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two and that the United States may have to walk away. President Putin sent thousands of troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering the gravest confrontation between […]

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5 d. ago Istanbul peace talks laid bare chasm between Ukraine and Russia

The first high-level talks between Russia and Ukraine since the early months of Moscow’s 2022 invasion showed they are far from agreement on steps needed for a ceasefire, even though they promised a major swap of prisoners of war. A window for more diplomacy remains ajar, however, after the sworn enemies agreed in principle to […]

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6 d. ago Russia launches war’s largest drone attack after peace talks, Ukraine says

The largest known Russian drone attack since full-scale war began in 2022 killed a woman in the Kyiv region and injured at least three people, Ukrainian authorities said early on Sunday, as Moscow stepped up strikes following peace talks on Friday. Russia launched 273 drones by 8 a.m. local time (0500 GMT), targeting chiefly the […]

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7 d. ago Russia demanded Kyiv pull back troops before ceasefire, Ukrainian source says

Russian negotiators at peace talks in Istanbul demanded Ukraine pull its troops out of all the Ukrainian regions claimed by Moscow before they would agree to a ceasefire, a senior Ukrainian official familiar with the talks told Reuters. The Kremlin declined to comment on the terms that Russia had put forward at Friday’s meeting in […]

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8 d. ago Russia and Ukraine to hold first direct peace talks in over 3 years

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators will meet in Istanbul on Friday for their first peace talks in more than three years as both sides come under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two. The encounter at the Dolmabahce Palace on the Bosphorus is a sign of diplomatic progress […]

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8 d. ago Russians and Ukrainians meet in Turkey for first talks in three years

Russian and Ukrainian negotiators met in Istanbul on Friday at their first direct peace talks in more than three years, under pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump to end Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two. Live Turkish television pictures showed Russian and Ukrainian negotiators holding discussions together with a Turkish delegation. Turkish Foreign Minister […]

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9 d. ago Peace talks or power play? Erdogan’s global stage amid domestic crackdown

Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan has probably never held more global sway: he will host the first direct Russia-Ukraine peace talks in three years on Thursday, days after his country’s militant nemesis, the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), dissolved. His growing capital as international statesman – working towards stability in Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and […]

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1 week ago Russia’s signals on Turkey talks ‘Unconvincing’, says Zelenskiy

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday Ukraine was waiting to see who would represent Russia at proposed talks in Turkey before determining Ukraine’s next steps. “I am waiting to see who will arrive from Russia and then I will determine what steps Ukraine should take. The signals in the media so far are unconvincing,” […]

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1 week ago Russia rejects ‘biased’ UN ruling on 2014 downing of Malaysian airliner

The Kremlin on Tuesday rejected as biased a ruling by the U.N. aviation council that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysian airliner over Ukraine in 2014 that killed all 298 passengers and crew. “Our position is well known. You know that Russia was not a country that took part in the investigation […]

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2 w. ago Former US president Biden accuses Trump of appeasement of Russia

Former U.S. President Joe Biden said his successor Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to give up territory to Russia is a form of “modern-day appeasement” that will never satisfy Moscow. Speaking to the BBC in what the broadcaster said was his first interview since leaving the White House, Biden said Russian President Vladimir Putin believes […]

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2 w. ago Putin says Russia has the strength to finish Ukraine operation

President Vladimir Putin said in remarks published on Sunday that Russia had sufficient strength and resources to take the war in Ukraine to its logical conclusion, though he hoped that there would be no need to use nuclear weapons. Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in February 2022, triggering Europe’s biggest ground conflict […]

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3 w. ago Russia declares state of emergency at port after Ukrainian drone attack on Novorossiisk

The mayor of the Russian port city of Novorossiisk declared a state of emergency on Saturday after local authorities said a Ukrainian drone attack had damaged a grain terminal and several residential buildings, injuring five people. There was no immediate comment from Ukraine, whose air force said Russia had attacked Ukraine overnight with 183 drones […]

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3 w. ago Peace in exchange for land? For many Ukrainians, it’s too painful to contemplate

Vitali Klitschko, the former heavyweight boxer who is now mayor of Kyiv, ventured last month into hazardous political territory: he delicately suggested in an interview that Ukraine might need to cede land to end its battle against Russia. After a flood of angry online comments, he walked back his comments, saying on Facebook that “territorial […]

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3 w. ago Russia’s Medvedev says Ukraine minerals deal means Trump has forced Kyiv to pay for US aid

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that the signing of a minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States meant U.S. President Donald Trump had forced Kyiv to pay for future U.S. military aid. The deal, signed in Washington on Wednesday, will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals […]

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