8 h. ago Trump says Putin ‘serious’ about peace as he welcomes Zelensky for talks

The Ukrainian leader is meeting the US president in Florida.

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14 h. ago Trump says Ukraine peace talks in ‘final stages’ as he meets Zelenskyy in Florida

Key topics include security guarantees to prevent Russia from attacking again, with US president saying he believes Putin is serious about peaceRussia-Ukraine war – latest news updatesDonald Trump has said talks to end the war in Ukraine are in their “final stages” as he sat down for a meeting on Sunday with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Florida, and insisted that Vladimir Putin was ready to make a peace deal.Trump met Ukraine’s president outside his Mar-a-Lago residence and claimed both warring sides were close to an agreement. Hours earlier the US president held a lengthy phone call with Putin and said he would ring the Kremlin again once talks had concluded. Continue reading...

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30 h. ago Key details about latest Ukraine peace deal – and the main hurdles Russia keeps putting in the way

Volodymyr Zelensky has said he believes the peace plan is ‘90 per cent’ ready

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32 h. ago Zelensky still has cards to play in Trump’s Ukraine poker game

Editorial: As Trump talks peace deals and Putin digs in, Zelensky is playing a subtler game. His proposal for a referendum on Ukraine’s borders could reshape the negotiations – and expose who is really serious about ending the war

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35 h. ago Zelensky prepares for crucial peace talks with Trump after Putin pounds Kyiv with drones and missiles

Volodymyr Zelensky said Russia’s latest bombardment revealed Vladimir Putin’s ‘true attitude’ towards peace

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44 h. ago NATO fighters scrambled as Putin strikes Ukraine day before Trump peace talks

Russia used the full forces of its Tu-22M3 long range strategic bombers to inflict further misery on Ukraine and NATO was forced to scramble fighters for the second consecutive day

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9 d. ago Ukraine war latest: Putin compares EU to ‘burglars’ in rambling press conference after frozen assets plan dropped

EU Council president Antonio Costa says loan will cover Ukraine's military and economic needs for next two years

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1 week ago Revealed: Key details about latest Ukraine peace deal – and the main hurdles Russia keeps putting in the way

Ukraine emerged from two days of talks with Trump’s envoy positive about progress

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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. 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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2 w. ago Starmer to welcome Zelensky to Downing Street for peace plan talks over Russia's invasion of Ukraine

The meeting, also attended by French President Macron and German Chancellor Merz, is expected to focus on how to respond to US proposals for ending the war with Russia.

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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. 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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3 w. ago Kremlin praises Trump for 'trying to find a solution' to Ukraine and insists Putin has not rejected latest peace plan but it was a 'first exchange'

The Kremlin has today praised Donald Trump for trying to reach a peace deal to end the invasion of Ukraine, adding that Vladimir Putin hasn't rejected the latest version of the plan. 

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3 w. ago Putin doesn’t want peace –and Trump’s baffling error has made it easy for him

All hopes were on Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff trip to Moscow, but a breakthrough in peace talks was never going to happen with a man who has repeatedly taken Russia’s side, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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