Moscow has proposed a second round of direct peace talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on Monday, weeks after similar negotiations failed to bear fruit. Kyiv has hit back at Russia’s failure to submit a proposed ceasefire memorandum,

The United States hopes that the Ukrainian delegation will proceed to the second round of negotiations with Russia, stated White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt during a briefing for journalists.

The United States and Russia quarrelled in public on Wednesday over the intensifying Ukraine war after U.S. President Donald Trump warned that President Vladimir Putin was "playing with fire" and Moscow massed 50,

Russia and Ukraine in spat over proposed June peace talks after Trump pushes deadline on Putin - The Kremlin said Kyiv’s calls for Russia to release its ceasefire memorandum before talks in June were

More than a decade ago, Trump mused about whether Vladimir Putin would attend a beauty pageant that Trump was sponsoring in Moscow and, if so, whether Putin would “become my new best friend.” That seemingly random 2013 Twitter missive launched one of the most enduring and significant geopolitical bromances in recent times—one that has persisted despite election-interference allegations,

While world leaders bicker over the prospects for peace, the deadliest conflict in Europe since World War Two is heating up fast.

A just peace in Ukraine will likely come only after the Russian leader, Vladimir Putin, is gone. However, there is also a short-term solution, Tagesschau reports, citing President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Following Russia’s capture of four villages in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region this week, US President Donald Trump issued a second public rebuke to Vladimir Putin in three days, warning on Truth Social (Tuesday,