Russia-Ukraine War

The Russian president renewed his argument that the current Ukrainian government is illegitimate and suggested Kyiv may renege on a peace deal.

France and the UK have spearheaded a plan for a European force in Ukraine, but divisions remain with threat of direct conflict with Moscow.

The Trump administration has negotiated a limited cease-fire covering Russia and Ukraine’s energy sites, but a broader truce is still in the works.

Zelenskyy said Russia, not Ukraine, was holding up progress on a broader cease-fire.

Kyiv says Washington’s proposal is a ‘full-scale agreement’ that could pave the way for a joint revenue-sharing agreement on rare earths.

The negotiations this week have begun to bear some fruit, but agreements are scarce on the future of a cease-fire agreement.

The agreement marks a shift in U.S. policy, with a focus on easing restrictions on Russian maritime trade and payments related to food and fertilizer exports.

Defence spending continues to be a hot topic issue as the government tries to balance the books.

Fighting continues in Russia’s Kursk region, which shares a border with Sumy, officials in Moscow said.

White House national security adviser Mike Waltz says negotiators are discussing ‘confidence-building measures’ including the return of Ukrainian children.

Russia and the United States will meet in Saudi Arabia on March 24.

Donald Tusk said the European Council had agreed that in five years, Europe ’must be, in terms of army, weapons, technology, clearly stronger than Russia.’

‘One of the things we are doing is signing a deal very shortly with respect to rare earths with Ukraine,’ Trump told reporters at the White House.

The administration will soon sign a rare earth mineral deal with Ukraine, the president said.

Senior military figures from a variety of countries will meet just outside London on Thursday to discuss the plans moving into an ‘operational phase.’

The European Union’s leaders discussed plans to mobilize hundreds of billions of euros to boost the military readiness of the bloc to fend off Russia.

The two leaders held a phone call this week to discuss Moscow’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

A day after Putin consented to a partial cease-fire on energy infrastructure, Zelenskyy told Trump that he also agreed to this proposal.