13 h. ago Ukraine war latest: Trump warns Putin has to ‘settle this war’ as it’s ‘not making Russia look good’

US president says he may offer Kyiv long-range Tomahawk missiles as Zelensky prepares for Washington talks

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14 h. ago 'Trump is trying to blackmail Putin' after worrying weapons warning, claims Kremlin mouthpiece

Russian officials claim Donald Trump is trying to blackmail Vladimir Putin as the Russian war on Ukraine continues to rage and Trump has threatened to slap more sanctions on the country

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16 h. ago Putin’s top ally warns if Trump gives missiles to Ukraine it could lead to ‘nuclear war’

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko tells Washington that gifting Tomahawks to Kyiv ‘will escalate the situation’ in Eastern Europe and force a Russian retaliation

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18 h. ago Ukraine war latest: Russian attack on hospital injures almost 60 ahead of Trump

Zelensky's trip to Washington comes after Trump said he may offer long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv

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31 h. ago Trump says it's now time to end the Ukraine war as he heralds the Middle East new dawn and hails it the 'end of an age of terror and death'

Trump will welcome Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to the White House on Friday for what could prove to be a pivotal meeting.

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41 h. ago Trump says he’s on brink of sending long range missiles to Ukraine – prompting Russian INSULT and chilling nuke threat

US PRESIDENT Trump said he could give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles to pressure Russia to end the war. In a sign he is fed up with Moscow dragging its feet over peace talks, Trump said: “I might say, ‘Look: if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks’.” Trump hailed...

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56 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Moscow voices ‘extreme concern’ at Trump threat to send Tomohawk missiles to Kyiv

US president says he may warn Russian counterpart ‘look, if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks’. What we know on day 1,328Donald Trump has threatened to send longe-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Vladimir Putin does not end his invasion. “I might talk to him [Putin]. I might say, ‘look, if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks,’” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to the Middle East. The US president said Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy had asked for Tomahawks in a call on Saturday when they were discussing a fresh supply of weapons for Kyiv. “Tomahawks are a new step of aggression,” added Trump. “Do they [Russian forces] want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.” Trump has been mulling potential supplies of the long-range missiles to Kyiv via European allies ever since his meeting with Putin in Alaska in August failed to produce a peace deal. Putin has pre...

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56 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Moscow voices ‘extreme concern’ at Trump threat to send Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv

US president says he may warn Russian counterpart ‘look, if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks’. What we know on day 1,328Donald Trump has threatened to send longe-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine if Vladimir Putin does not end his invasion. “I might talk to him [Putin]. I might say, ‘look, if this war is not going to get settled, I’m going to send them Tomahawks,’” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on his way to the Middle East. The US president said Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy had asked for Tomahawks in a call on Saturday when they were discussing a fresh supply of weapons for Kyiv. “Tomahawks are a new step of aggression,” added Trump. “Do they [Russian forces] want to have Tomahawks going in their direction? I don’t think so.” Trump has been mulling potential supplies of the long-range missiles to Kyiv via European allies ever since his meeting with Putin in Alaska in August failed to produce a peace deal. Putin has pre...

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8 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Trump says he would want to know Kyiv’s plans for Tomahawk missiles before supplying them

US president says he has ‘sort of made a decision’ on whether to supply long-range missiles; Denmark to step up checks on oil tankers after drone sightings. What we know on day 1,322See all our Ukraine war overage Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump changed position on Putin after ‘briefing on planned Ukrainian offensive’

In the lead up to his meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky, the US president met with officials advocating a tougher stance on Moscow

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2 w. ago Ukraine war briefing: Trump ‘growing incredibly impatient’ with Russia over war, warns Vance

US vice-president says if Moscow doesn’t negotiate in good faith it will be ‘very, very bad for their country’ as Zelenskyy appeals to world leaders to stop Putin. What we know on day 1,310See all our Russia-Ukraine war coverageUS vice-president JD Vance has warned that Donald Trump is “growing incredibly impatient” with Moscow amid stalled efforts to resolve the Ukraine war. Trump “doesn’t feel like they’re putting enough on the table to end the war”, Vance said in North Carolina. “If the Russians refuse to negotiate in good faith, I think it’s going to be very, very bad for their country. That’s what the president made clear.” In a meeting earlier on Wednesday in New York, US secretary of state Marco Rubio apparently clashed with his Russian counterpart, calling for the “killing to stop” and demanding Moscow “take meaningful steps toward a durable resolution”.Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov fired back and “stressed the unacceptability of the schemes promoted by Kyiv and som...

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2 w. ago Trump’s dizzying corkscrews & swerves on Ukraine may wind up back where he began here’s the concrete action Kyiv needs

DONALD Trump doesn’t do U-Turns. He does rollercoaster loop-the-loops. So with all his dizzying corkscrew turns and sudden policy swerves there is every risk he ends up back where he began – sucking up to tyrant Vladimir Putin and scorning President Volodymyr Zelensky. Before Ukraine shows any relief at Trump’s sudden, full-throated support they will...

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2 w. ago ‘Most destructive arms race in human history’: Zelenskyy appeals at UN for intervention to stop Russia

Ukrainian president told world leaders that combination of drone technology and AI would end in catastropheEurope live – latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to global leaders to intervene to prevent Russia from leading the world through “the most destructive arms race in human history”, warning that the combination of drone technology and artificial intelligence would end in catastrophe.Speaking to the UN general assembly, the Ukrainian president tried to galvanise not just the west but also China. His chilling account of how Russia is using technology to change the face of war was the opposite of Donald Trump’s claim that Russia’s military may only be a paper tiger. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Zelensky warns UN: Russia could attack you next as Trump turns on Putin

Volodymyr Zelensky warned the UN General Assembly that the world has entered the ‘most destructive arms race in history’ as Russia develops a fleet of AI drones

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2 w. ago Can Ukraine actually win the war? How Trump’s comments have rattled Russia

Trump has made a gigantic intellectual contribution to the future of Ukraine and Europe, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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2 w. ago Can Ukraine regain all the land lost to Russia? Maps show huge scale of task despite Trump’s call to ‘fight and win’

The US president has suggested Ukraine is in a position of strength as Russia is in ‘big economic trouble’. But experts tell Alex Croft that Kyiv will need support on the ground to reclaim occupied territory

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3 w. ago ‘Putin really let me down’: Trump says he thought war in Ukraine would be ‘easy to solve’

The US President said he thought his personal relationship with Putin would help bring the conflict to an end

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3 w. ago Donald Trump says Putin 'let me down' and gives chilling WW3 warning

US President Donald Trump claimed he thought the Ukraine war would be the "easiest" to resolve out of ongoing conflicts due to his relationship with Vladimir Putin

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4 w. ago The Guardian view on Donald Trump’s Ukraine strategy: talking tough and doing very little isn’t working | Editorial

Last week’s incursion into Polish territory by Russian drones was an ominous escalation. But the US president keeps finding reasons not to actBack in January, with Donald Trump’s campaign promises to end the war in Ukraine “within 24 hours” still fresh in the memory, there was genuine unease in Moscow over the US president’s intentions. When Mr Trump mused that “high levels of Taxes, Tariffs, and Sanctions” on Russia might be necessary, one high-profile and pro-war Moscow commentator wrote: “It’s better to prepare for the worst. Soon, we’ll look back on Biden’s term with nostalgia, like a thaw.”How wrong can you be? Since then, the US president has repeatedly talked the talk without coming close to walking the walk. In May, when Vladimir Putin rejected a 30-day ceasefire, and peace talks in Turkey went nowhere, a “bone-crushing” US sanctions package failed to materialise. An 8 August deadline for Mr Putin to agree to a ceasefire somehow morphed into a red carpet welcome in Alas...

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