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Monday’s meeting in Paris appears to have validated the Trump administration’s reluctance to include European leaders in Ukraine peace talks as deep divides remain on Europe’s role in the peace process.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky paid an official visit to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Sunday with his wife Olena Zelenska, seeking assistance with recovering Ukrainian prisoners from Russia, a “large humanitarian program” for suffering civilians, and “investments and economic partnership” that could help Ukraine rebuild after the war.

Starmer declared willingness to deploy British troops to Ukraine “in harm’s way” to deter Russian aggression.

Top Russian and U.S. officials are readying to meet Tuesday to address a negotiated settlement to the war in Ukraine and preparing a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that his country has intelligence that Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to “wage war” against NATO countries.

The Trump administration has reportedly called on European nations to outline the number of troops and weapons they are willing to commit to a peacekeeping force in Ukraine amid growing complaints from the continent of being sidelined from negotiations.

Russia said Saturday its forces had captured the village of Berezivka in their latest breakthrough in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region, where Ukrainian defenses are creaking.

On Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher said that while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s declaration that it’s not realistic for Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 borders “is just surrender” but “the problem is that I don’t

Former CIA Director John Brennan said Friday on MSNBC’s “All In” that President Donald Trump foreign policy was creating “animosity” towards the United States.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of Newsmax TV’s “The Record,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said that he thinks Russia at least has to return to the territorial lines prior to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and Ukraine

President Trump said after meeting with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday that India will increase its purchases of American oil and military hardware, culminating in India’s purchase of the advanced F-35 fighter jet.

The Foreign Ministry of Saudi Arabia confirmed on Friday it is interested in hosting a summit between President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in the near future after Trump floated the possibility.

Drone with a high-explosive warhead hit the protective containment shell of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant overnight, Kyiv says.

Trump looking forward to fundamentally productive negotiation with Russia, JD Vance said, in comments mischaracterised as a threat of war.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to discuss a minerals deal and Ukraine war funding.

BRUSSELS, Belgium — Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News said he is not ruling out nuclear weapons for Ukraine, and that ultimately it is up to President Donald Trump.

The Wall Street Journal shared a rumor on Thursday, citing anonymous people “familiar,” that the Communist Party of China proposed to President Donald Trump that Beijing could host a summit between him and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin to discuss the war on Ukraine.

A family of six Palestinians from Gaza slipped through what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer described as a “loophole” this week and immigrated to the United Kingdom using a program designed for Ukrainian refugees.

President Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday as he looks to wind down the war between their nations. 

Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is offering new financial and other benefits that it hopes will attract men between ages 18 and 24 to military service, as its short-handed armed forces toil on the front line against Russia’s bigger army in the almost three-year war.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth at the NATO headquarters on Wednesday called for an end to the Ukraine War and in a major departure from the Biden administration, did not announce any new aid for Ukraine.

President Donald Trump announced that he will send Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to Ukraine to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, adding that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must and will end soon.”

Russian forces targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” nighttime missile attack and Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said Tuesday, as the almost three-year war rumbled on against a backdrop of renewed diplomatic efforts to end it.

Ukraine will enter into peace talks with Putin as long as the U.S. and Europe give “more security guarantees” not to “abandon” the country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirmed a new Ukrainian offensive in Russia’s Kursk region and said that North Korean troops were fighting alongside Russian forces there.

The Munich summit is a regular forum for global international security discussions which has taken on new significance amid the Ukraine war.

The first Mirage 2000 fighters promised to Ukraine by France’s President Macron arrived on Thursday along with their French-trained crews. 

British Foreign Secretary David Lammy arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday, bringing a new support package for Ukraine.

Members of Germany’s top two populist parties, the AfD and BSW, have both been banned from this year’s Munich Security Service, which ironically justified the decision by claiming that populists did not believe in “peace through dialogue”.

Russia has experienced around one million casualties in its invasion of Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Ukraine would need a million-man army and a nuclear deterrent to prevent future Russian aggression if it doesn’t join NATO, Zelensky said. 

President Donald Trump said on Monday that he wants Ukraine to trade “rare earths and other things” for continued American military and financial support.

“If two (nuclear switchyards) are hit, we are out of supply for a minimum of 30 to 36 hours” said a Ukrainian energy industry expert.

Long-range drones struck one of Russia´s biggest oil refineries for the second time in three days, a senior Kyiv official said Monday.

Russia didn’t say what caused the blast, but the state news cited law enforcement source as saying a bomb was planted in the building.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that his country has only received around $76 billion in aid from the United States despite America authorising around $175 billion to support the war-torn country.