24 h. ago North Korea building 'super palaces' for world leaders like Putin and Trump

North Korea is racing to build three lavish palaces in its capital city of Pyongyang, each the size of two football pitches, amid reports they could be for Vladimir Putin

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50 h. ago Europe needs to shove Trump aside – it has the power to stop Putin in Ukraine and it must use it

Donald Trump is a Russian ally and is trying to force surrender on Ukraine – Europe can and must stop him, world affairs editor Sam Kiley explains how

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52 h. ago Trump explodes at Zelensky for not accepting peace deal as he warns Putin 'has the upper hand'

Donald Trump has issued a stark warning that Russia maintains the 'upper hand' in ongoing peace negotiations with Ukraine.

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52 h. ago Donald Trump shockingly tells Zelensky to 'get your act together' over Putin peace deal

Donald Trump blasts Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky, saying he must “get his act together and start accepting things” if progress is to be made in ending the war

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69 h. ago Ramp up pressure on Putin to end ‘barbaric war,’ say European leaders amid rift with Trump

Sir Keir Starmer hosted Volodymyr Zelensky, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron at Downing Street on Monday

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3 d. ago London peace talks: Zelensky tells of split with US on Trump plan to hand swathes of eastern Ukraine to Putin

Sir Keir Starmer to welcome Ukraine’s president to Downing Street to discuss peace plans with France and Germany leaders Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz

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3 d. ago Trump swipes at Zelensky ahead of peace talks in London as Ukraine seeks 'dignified end to war'

Sir Keir Starmer to welcome Ukraine’s president to Downing Street to discuss peace plans with France and Germany leaders Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz

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3 d. ago Voices: There is still a way European leaders can help achieve a positive outcome for Ukraine

Editorial: Donald Trump wants to build bridges with Russia, but Europe must assert its interests as well

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4 d. ago Nicola Jennings on Putin’s dealings with Trump over Ukraine – cartoon

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4 d. ago Putin should have accepted Trump’s deal. Now Russia’s collapsing economy could lead to his downfall | Simon Tisdall

The war against Ukraine has hit ordinary Russians hard, and the deteriorating situation is likely to inflame tensions People in Britain who think they are governed by fools should take a closer look at the Russian and US presidents. Vladimir Putin is systematically ruining his country. His war of choice in Ukraine is an economic, financial, geopolitical and human calamity for Russia that worsens by the day. For his own murky reasons, Donald Trump, another national menace, offered him a lifeline last week. Yet Putin spurned it. These two fools deserve each other.On the table in Moscow was a “peace” deal that, broadly speaking, rewarded Russia’s aggression by handing over large chunks of Ukrainian land, compromised Kyiv’s independence and weakened its defences against any future attack. The Trump deal, if forced through, would have split the US and Europe; ruptured Nato, perhaps fatally; reprieved Russia’s pariah economy; and probably toppled Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government.Simon Tis...

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5 d. ago Only Europe can save Ukraine from Putin and Trump – but will it? | Timothy Garton Ash

Whether using frozen Russian assets, ramping up defence production or deepening the relationship with the EU, it is up to us to secure Ukraine’s future – and our ownEurope, you have been warned. President Vladimir Putin has waged a full-scale war against Ukraine for nearly four years and this week threatened that Russia was “ready right now” for war with Europe if need be. President Donald Trump has demonstrated that the US is ready to sell out Ukraine for the sake of a dirty deal with Putin’s Russia. His new US National Security Strategy prescribes “cultivating resistance to Europe’s current trajectory within European nations”. How much more clarity do you need?Now it’s up to us Europeans to enable Ukraine to survive armed assault from Moscow and diplomatic betrayal from Washington. In doing so, we also defend ourselves. For a year now, people have been telling me that Trump will eventually get tough on Russia. It’s been the geopolitical version of Waiting for Godot. Then his perso...

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6 d. ago US tells Europe it must take over 'the majority' of NATO's defence capabilities by 2027 as Trump shifts American military focus while Putin's war in Ukraine rages on

The message, recounted by five sources familiar with the discussion, including a US official, was conveyed at a meeting in Washington this week of Pentagon staff overseeing NATO policy.

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6 d. ago India ignores pressure from Trump and signs deal to EXPAND trade with Russia, prompting boasts from Putin

Putin said he would continue 'uninterrupted shipments' of fuel to India, as New Delhi faces heavy U.S. pressure to stop buying oil from Moscow amid the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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6 d. ago Putin insists certain elements of Trump’s peace plan to end Ukraine war are unacceptable

Vladimir Putin says some proposals in a U.S. plan to end the war in Ukraine are unacceptable to the Kremlin

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6 d. ago Vladimir Putin's WW3 threat 'has hidden meaning with ploy to influence Donald Trump'

Vladimir Putin torpedoed Donald Trump's Moscow-pandering peace plan to end the war in Ukraine with the Russian leader keen to squeeze more concessions from the US President

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7 d. ago Europe is holding the line against Trump’s and Putin’s plans for Ukraine. But it won’t be able to for ever | Martin Kettle

In the 21st-century imbalance of power, Europe and Nato have neither the arms nor the wealth to impel Russia or the US to take its peace settlement seriouslyThe failure of this week’s peace talks between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff fits into a now well-established pattern of standoffs on Ukraine during Trump’s second term. But the dynamic that produced these talks may be becoming more entrenched. The US and Russian interests driving the process have not changed, while the conflict on the ground is intensifying. The lack of progress this week means there will be another attempt to end the war soon, and perhaps another after that, until, one day, there is some kind of US-backed deal to halt the conflict on terms broadly favouring Russia.The geopolitical algorithm driving this effort is too consistent to ignore. It has been repeated ever since Trump re-entered the White House in January. On the campaign trail, Trump had claimed he could stop the war in a day. ...

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7 d. ago Once again, Vladimir Putin indicates he wants the war in Europe to go on

Editorial: By entertaining a Ukrainian peace deal whose miserable terms not even a desperate US president could accept – before then promptly abandoning it – Moscow is stalling for time. The coalition of the willing must put more pressure on the faltering Russian economy

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7 d. ago Nato hits back at Putin’s threat of war in Europe as UK condemns ‘Kremlin claptrap’

Rhetoric between Russia and Europe has ramped up after talks between Donald Trump’s envoy and Vladimir Putin failed to reach an agreement

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8 d. ago Vladimir Putin accused of 'spitting in Donald Trump's face' as he trashes peace deal

Vladimir Putin has chosen the path of war despite Donald Trump's best efforts and now NATO must prepare to take action, according to a leading foreign policy expert

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8 d. ago Which areas is Russia demanding as its price for peace in Ukraine? – visual explainer

Moscow is demanding Kyiv accept its ‘annexation’ of areas it occupies. After the latest round of talks between envoys of Putin and Trump ended without progress, we look at the territory Russia is seeking to absorbSources: Center for Strategic and International Studies, Institute for the Study of War, Yale Humanitarian Research Lab Ukraine Conflict Observatory, OpenStreetMap. Picture credits: Invasion trucks – Gettty; Sevastopol – Reuters; Yalta – Dennis Cox / Alamy; Donetsk steelworks – Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters. Continue reading...

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