Trump has said he would end the war in Ukraine "within 24 hours" but Sergey Lavrov has poured cold water on plans to halt the fighting revealed in an interview.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says President-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable” and that he can not end the war in one day as claimed.

Russia’s foreign minister rejected ideas floated by members of the Trump transition team for negotiating a ceasefire in Ukraine, casting doubt that the president-elect will be able to negotiate a peace deal in his first 24 hours—as he repeatedly claimed on the campaign trail.

Russia’s foreign minister Monday rejected the peace proposal being floated around by President-elect Donald Trump’s team to end the war in Ukraine.

Earlier reports from the Wall Street Journal indicated that Trump’s team is considering a plan to delay Ukraine’s NATO membership by at least 20 years in exchange for continued Western arms supplies and the deployment of European peacekeepers to monitor a ceasefire.

U.S. president-elect Donald Trump is 'strong and unpredictable,' and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Mr Zelensky said he wanted to ensure that any US plan on a settlement took account of Ukraine's views.  Read more at straitstimes.com.

The incoming Trump administration doubtless wants a strong hand to begin negotiating with Russia on peace with Ukraine.

With Medicare on track to begin operating in the red the year after Trump leaves office, what plans does the president-elect have for the program?

Putin has approved an expansion of military-patriotic educational programs as part of his "Year of the Defender of the Fatherland" policies and to this end, he said that the year will honor current servicemen, the 80th anniversary of the end of the Second World War, as well as other veterans who fought for Russia.