U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks between Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

For Ukraine, history is a battlefield. Parallels are imprecise, but the current moment resonates with three key chapters in 20th century diplomatic history.

As Trump pushes for peace, Ukraine accuses Russia of a deadly drone and missile strike, "as if there were no efforts by the world to stop this war."

Zelensky accuses Kremlin of ‘doing everything’ to stop Putin meeting in blow to Trump - Russia’s foreign minister Sergei Lavrov cast doubt on a meeting between the two leaders proposed by the US presi

The White House said President Donald Trump is still working toward a bilateral meeting. "Nobody is ready to throw in the towel," one national security official said.

EU tariffs on Russian fertiliser imports that aim to cut funding for Moscow's war in Ukraine have so far hit European farmers, raising costs and risking higher consumer prices while Russian companies say they can divert exports to other markets.

President Trump’s sojourn in Alaska is the beginning of a long, excruciating process whose success is unknown, Chicago Tribune columnist Daniel DePetris writes.

The 42-month-old Russia-Ukraine war remains central to global diplomacy, with Trump’s separate meetings with Putin and Zelensky raising hopes for peace.

Russia has launched a rare drone and missile attack on western Ukraine, hitting an American-owned electronics plant among other targets and injecting further uncertainty into the U.S.-led efforts to e