1 week ago Our View: Finger on button, Putin blaming Europe for Ukraine crisis

As was widely expected, Tuesday’s talks between the United States and Russia made no progress towards a Ukraine peace deal. This was the view expressed by a Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov to the Russian media, after the five-hour meeting with President Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio […]

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1 week ago Peace push falters as Putin rejects key US proposals on Ukraine

Russia and the U.S. did not reach a compromise on a possible peace deal to end the war in Ukraine after a five-hour Kremlin meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s top envoys, the Kremlin said on Wednesday. Trump has repeatedly complained that ending Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War Two has been one […]

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1 week ago Putin warns Europe: if you want war, then Russia will defeat you

President Vladimir Putin warned European powers on Tuesday that if they started a war with Russia then Moscow was ready to fight and that the defeat of European powers would be so absolute that there would be no one left to even negotiate a peace deal. Almost four years into the war in Ukraine, the […]

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2 w. ago US sees progress after talks in Florida with Ukraine, but more work needed to reach deal

U.S. and Ukrainian officials held what both sides called productive talks on Sunday about a Russia peace deal, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressing optimism about progress despite challenges to ending the more than 3-year-long war. Rubio met with a Ukrainian delegation led by a new chief negotiator in Florida, his home state, for […]

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2 w. ago Ukraine backs ‘essence’ of peace deal with Russia but sensitive issues linger

Ukraine on Tuesday signalled support for the framework of a peace deal with Russia but stressed that sensitive issues needed to be fixed at a meeting between President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and U.S. President Donald Trump. Kyiv’s message hinted that an intense diplomatic push by the Trump administration could be yielding some fruit but any optimism […]

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3 w. ago Trump presses Ukraine for deal as Zelenskiy weighs revised peace plan

The United States and Ukraine were set to continue work on Monday on a plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify an earlier proposal that was widely seen as too favorable to Moscow. The two sides said in a joint statement they had drafted a “refined peace framework” after talks in […]

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3 w. ago US threatens to cut intel, weapons to press Ukraine into peace deal

The United States has threatened to cut intelligence sharing and weapons supplies for Ukraine to press it into agreeing to the framework of a U.S.-brokered peace deal, two people familiar with the matter said. Washington has presented Ukraine with a 28-point plan, which endorses some of Russia’s principal demands in the war, including that Kyiv […]

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