68 h. ago Zelenskyy reiterates call for air truce after huge Russian attack on Ukraine infrastructure – Europe live

Ukrainian president backs Macron’s call for limited truce and says attack used nearly 70 Russian missiles and 200 dronesMeanwhile, in Ukraine Russia launched a “massive” drone and missile attack on Ukrainian energy facilities early Friday, just days after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European allies proposed that Moscow and Kyiv halt strikes on critical infrastructure, AFP reported.The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched at least 58 missiles and nearly 200 drones, damaging energy facilities across the country from Kharkiv in the east to Ternopil in the west. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Donald Trump embarrassed after holding 'secret calls' with Volodymyr Zelenskyy's Ukrainian rivals

The US President's team are said to have held calls with Ukraine's opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko as well as ex-president Petro Poroshenko.

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3 d. ago Donald Trump 'secretly calls Zelensky's Ukraine rivals' but US President is left embarrassed

Ukrainian opposition leaders have hit out against Donald Trump's demands to hold elections in the country during times of war in a similar parroting of Kremlin lines

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3 d. ago Trump allies ‘met with Zelensky’s political rivals’ after US president called for Ukraine elections

Reports come after Trump publically berated the Ukrainian leader in the White House, cut military aid and refused to share intelligence

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5 d. ago I will be proud to invite Zelensky to address Holyrood, says Presiding Officer

First Minister John Swinney earlier backed calls for the Ukrainian president to be invited to address the Scottish Parliament.

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5 d. ago Volodmyr Zelensky ‘ready to work’ under Donald Trump leadership to get peace

The Ukrainian president has called for a “truce in the sky” and a “truce in the sea” if Russia agrees to the same.

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5 d. ago Zelensky looks for peace deal... with Trump! Ukrainian leader says he 'regrets' White House row and is ready to work under Donald's 'strong leadership'

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has called for a truce in the sky and sea, and admitted he regrets how his disastrous White House visit went down. 

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7 d. ago The shocking Biden rant at Zelensky that might prove Trump was right to shame Ukraine leader in Oval Office

In June 2022, just months after Russia invaded Ukraine, President Joe Biden became furious with Zelensky during a phone call.

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8 d. ago Trump’s style of petty domination was in full display with Zelenskyy | Moira Donegan

Trump and Vance, I think, never really intended to have a conversation with Zelenskky. Instead, they wanted to look tough on TVThe last time Donald Trump did this, it was in secret, and he got impeached over it. In 2019, Donald Trump, on a phone call with Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanded that the Ukrainian president produce – or fabricate – evidence of wrongdoing by Hunter Biden, the son of Trump’s eventual opponent in the 2020 election, in exchange for continued US military aide.At the time, Russia had already seized control of the Ukrainian region of Crimea, and was funding violent insurgent groups in the country’s east; it was increasingly clear that a full-scale Russian invasion was coming, as it finally did in 2022. Since the end of second world war, it has been America that checks Russian expansionist ambitions in Europe – America that provided the backstop to the Nato alliance, America that secured the independence of eastern Europe. Trump wanted to condition that longstanding r...

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8 d. ago Donald Trump offered to build skyscraper project in Russia after rant at Zelensky

US President Donald Trump has attacked the Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky calling him a "dictator" before another sour exchange at the White House which has been well received in Russia

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9 d. ago Marco Rubio demands Zelensky apologize after heated Oval Office exchange

Secretary of State Marco Rubio called for Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to apologize after his meeting with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance in the Oval Office turned ugly.

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9 d. ago ‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting

Ukrainian leader abruptly left White House after being publicly berated by US president in Russia ceasefire talksUS politics live – latest updatesDemocratic lawmakers rushed to defend Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Ukrainian leader was publicly berated by Donald Trump in a disastrous Oval Office meeting.The US president accused Zelenskyy of “gambling with world war three” while his vice-president, JD Vance, called the Ukrainian leader “disrespectful”, before cutting short talks aimed at kicking off the process of ending Kyiv’s three-year war with Russia. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump tried to extort Zelenskyy and was impeached – now he may succeed

The Ukrainian president is expected at the White House on Friday to sign a multimillion-dollar minerals deal with echoes of a notorious 2019 phone callAlexander Vindman remembers the phone call – and what he did next. Serving on the national security council (NSC), he went to see his twin brother, who was the council’s senior ethics official, closed the door and told him: “Eugene, if what I’m about to tell you ever becomes public, Donald Trump will be impeached.”Vindman had set up a call between Trump and Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in July 2019. He heard the US president attempt to leverage US military aid to the country in return for Zelenskyy launching an investigation into Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, over his position at a Ukrainian gas company. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Ukraine war live: Zelenskyy says he would give up presidency for peace and Nato membership

Comments come after Russia launches largest drone attack on eve of third anniversary of invasionVolodymyr Zelenskyy is expected to give a press conference this afternoon at about 14:30 GMT. We will bring you the latest lines from the briefing once its begins.The Russian government has supported comments made by US President Donald Trump about Volodymyr Zelenskyy - such as calling the Ukrainian leader a “dictator” - are “understandable” after Zelenskyy made “inappropriate remarks” about Trump. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer lays down Ukraine peace demand ahead of Trump talks

Kyiv ‘must be at the heart of negotiations’ says PM as US threat to block Elon Musk’s Starlink satellites fuels wave of alarmKeir Starmer has raised the stakes before a crucial meeting in Washington with the US president, Donald Trump this week, by insisting that Ukraine must be “at the heart of any negotiations” on a peace deal with Russia.The prime minister made the remarks – which run directly contrary to comments by the US president last week – in a phone call on Saturdaywith Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in which he also said that “safeguarding Ukraine’s sovereignty was essential to deter future aggression from Russia”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago US envoy to Ukraine hails Zelenskyy as ‘embattled and courageous leader’

Keith Kellogg takes different tone from Trump, who contrasted ‘very good talks’ with Putin with cooler relationship with Ukraine’s leaderThe US envoy to Ukraine, Gen Keith Kellogg, has praised Volodymyr Zelenskyy as “the embattled and courageous leader of a nation at war”, striking a dramatically different tone from Donald Trump, who has called Ukraine’s president a “dictator”.Kellogg left Kyiv on Friday after a three-day visit. Posting on social media, he said he had engaged in “extensive and positive discussions” with Zelenskyy and his “talented national security team”. “A long and intense day with the senior leadership of Ukraine,” he said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago 'Even Donald Trump's Republican sycophants can’t stomach his spineless Ukraine betrayal'

Prominent Republicans have called out their leader Donald Trump after he labelled Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky a 'dictator' yet again

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2 w. ago Donald Trump refers to himself as 'the king' in bizarre social media post

Trump continues to receive backlash for his outlandish claims, calling himself the 'king' just hours after saying Ukrainian President is a 'dictator without elections'.

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2 w. ago Why does Donald Trump want elections in Ukraine and is this likely to happen?

US president calls Ukrainian leader a ‘dictator’ who does not hold elections

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2 w. ago Trump throws gasoline on feud with Zelensky as the Ukrainian leader issues searing ultimatum to the US

President Trump repeated his accusations calling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky a 'dictator' during his speech in Miami on Wednesday.

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