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U.S. President Donald Trump said he will speak with Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday to discuss stopping the war in Ukraine, days after the first direct talks between the two warring countries since early 2022. Trump, who was touring the Middle East last week, had offered to travel to Istanbul for the talks on…
The Kremlin said on Saturday that Russian President Vladimir Putin could meet Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky in the future, but only if certain agreements were reached. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov did not specify what agreements would be required from Russia‘s point of view. Putin and Zelensky have not met since December 2019. Zelensky had challenged the Kremlin leader to meet…
President Vladimir Putin has no intention of accepting Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky’s offer to meet one-on-one in Istanbul, sources in the Russian government and the Foreign Ministry and people close to the Kremlin have told The Moscow Times. With just hours to go before the first direct contact between Russian and Ukrainian delegations in three…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine appealed to President Trump on Tuesday to meet him this week for peace talks, saying it would put pressure on President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to attend, but he cast doubt on Mr. Putin’s desire for either talks or peace. The Kremlin on Tuesday declined to say whether Mr….
Ukraine and its allies on Monday sought to pile pressure on Russia to agree to an unconditional truce, with European leaders threatening to immediately impose a new round of sanctions and President Volodymyr Zelensky challenging President Vladimir V. Putin to meet him in Turkey on Thursday. President Trump raised the stakes, suggesting he might take…
The prospect of direct talks between Russia and Ukraine to end the war is once again on the table after weeks of diplomatic back-and-forth. President Vladimir Putin has proposed resuming negotiations with Ukraine in Istanbul on Thursday, three years after the two sides held failed talks there in the early weeks of the invasion. The…
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine responded cautiously on Sunday morning to Russia’s offer of direct talks, saying it was a “positive sign” but pressing for an immediate truce first, just hours after President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had rejected a cease-fire. Mr. Zelensky’s response did not directly address Mr. Putin’s suggestion that representatives of…
Russia’s Putin effectively rejected ceasefire proposal and proposed restarting direct talks with Ukraine. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says he is pleased to see that Russia is finally engaging with finding an end to the war, but there must be a ceasefire before peace talks can start. Calling it a “positive sign,” he said that…
Ukraine and four European leaders pressed Russia on Saturday to accept a 30-day unconditional ceasefire starting Monday, threatening Moscow with coordinated sanctions if it did not comply. The ultimatum was given after talks in Kyiv attended by President Volodymyr Zelensky and the leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland. The United States and other countries back…
Since President Trump took office vowing to pull back U.S. support for Ukraine, European leaders have worried that they would be unable to supply Ukraine with the weapons it needs. So far, it looks like they were right. The so-called coalition of the willing of European nations backing Ukraine has struggled to get materiel to…
