Russia-Ukraine War

The meeting comes as Trump attempts to get Moscow to come to the negotiating table for a potential cease-fire in Ukraine.

The UK, France, and the other European countries involved in the ‘coalition of the willing’ are still hoping for security guarantees from the United States

Slated for April 10, the meeting follows a first round of U.S.–Russia discussions hosted by Turkey in February.

U.S. soldiers are relocating to other areas of Poland after using Jasionka as a makeshift hub for flowing aid to Ukraine since 2022.

Moscow has yet to confirm—or even acknowledge—the Ukrainian leader’s assertion.

The Ukrainian president said he has instructed the minister of foreign affairs of Ukraine to ‘immediately contact Beijing.’

Sumy shares a border with Russia’s western Kursk region, from which Ukrainian forces now appear to be in full retreat.

A limited US-backed cease-fire fails to take hold as Russian forces continue to make gains in Donbas and Kursk.

Rubio said lawmakers are preparing to raise new sanctions against Russia if negotiations for peace in Ukraine falter.

The new deployment is part of an effort by Berlin to secure NATO’s eastern flank and show that Europe can take on a greater responsibility for its own defense.

Moscow says it is maintaining contact with Washington but that issues under discussion ‘require a lot of additional effort.’

The move put the Finnish government on the same path as Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Russia continues to face U.S. sanctions and that ’restrictions continue to apply to American companies.’

Meanwhile, Ukrainian forces are being ejected from border communities in Russia’s Kursk, a defense source tells Moscow’s TASS news agency.

Moscow says it is ready to revive a Black Sea grain initiative—part of a would-be cease-fire deal—if its long-standing demands for sanctions relief are met.

The president said he‘d impose sanctions ’if Russia and I are unable to make a deal on stopping the bloodshed in Ukraine, and if I think it was Russia’s fault.’

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Zelenskyy said that Russian leadership was intent on conquering more of Ukraine’s territory before committing to a U.S.-led cease-fire deal.

Russian Deputy Prime Minister Alexey Overchuk says that Moscow would seek to balance its relationship between Washington and Beijing.

Kyiv won’t treat U.S. aid as debt and is still assessing Washington’s latest minerals agreement proposal, the Ukrainian president says.