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November 20, 2025 4:42 PM

Europeans push back at US plan that would force concessions from Ukraine

European countries pushed back on Thursday against a U.S.-backed peace plan for Ukraine that sources said would require Kyiv to give up more land and partially disarm, conditions long seen by Ukraine's allies as tantamount to capitulation. Two people familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday that Washington had signalled to President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that Ukraine must accept a U.S.-drafted framework to end the war, which includes territorial concessions and curbs to Ukraine's armed ...

October 28, 2025 3:06 PM

Zelenskiy says Kyiv ready for peace talks, but will not cede territory

Ukraine is ready for peace talks but will not withdraw its troops from additional territory first as Moscow has demanded, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said. In comments to reporters released on Tuesday, he said he was happy for talks to be held anywhere, except in Russia itself or on the territory of its close ally Belarus. Plans for a summit in Budapest this month between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin were put on hold after Moscow stuck to demands, including that Uk...

October 25, 2025 3:26 PM

Putin envoy Dmitriev says US, Ukraine and Russia close to ‘diplomatic solution’ on war

Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, said on Friday he believes his country, the United States and Ukraine are close to a diplomatic solution to end Russia's war in Ukraine. Speaking to CNN after arriving in Washington for talks with U.S. officials, Dmitriev said that a meeting between Donald Trump and Putin had not been cancelled, as the U.S. president described it, and that the two leaders will likely meet at a later date. ...

October 21, 2025 4:15 PM

Kremlin says timing of Trump-Putin summit is unclear

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was unclear when a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on seeking an end to the war in Ukraine would take place, and that no dates had been mentioned by anyone. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the Ukraine war, the deadliest in Europe since World War Two, though he has said that finding peace has been harder than reaching a ceasefire in Gaza or ending a conflict between India and Pakistan. After speaking to Put...

October 21, 2025 4:05 PM

Russian bombardment plunges hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians into blackout

A Russian bombardment of energy infrastructure left hundreds of thousands of people in Ukraine's Chernihiv region without power and some without water on Tuesday, with repairs slowed down by the lingering threat of drone strikes, officials said. The energy ministry said that the regional capital, also called Chernihiv, and the northern part of the province had lost all electricity supply. The attack, which also targeted the neighbouring Sumy region of northern Ukraine, was the latest in a camp...

October 19, 2025 2:31 PM

Ukrainian drones cause fire at major Russian gas processing plant, governor says

Ukrainian drones attacked the Orenburg gas processing plant, the world's largest facility of its kind, and damaged part of it but no employees were hurt in the attack, the region's governor said on Sunday. The governor, Yevgeny Solntsev, said on his official Telegram channel that the drone strike had caused a fire to break out at a workshop at the plant which emergency services were working to put out. It is the first time that the plant, part of the Orenburg gas chemical complex, which includ...

October 11, 2025 5:36 PM

UK jets flew 12-hour mission with US, NATO near Russian border

Britain said on Saturday that two Royal Air Force aircraft flew a 12-hour mission earlier this week alongside U.S. and NATO forces to patrol the border of Russia, amid a series of recent Russian drone and aircraft incursions into NATO airspace. "This was a substantial joint mission with our U.S. and NATO allies," defence minister John Healey said. "Not only does this provide valuable intelligence to boost the operational awareness of our Armed Forces, but sends a powerful message of NATO unity...

October 10, 2025 11:01 AM

How Ukraine’s European allies fuel Russia’s war economy

European nations, including France, are among the staunchest supporters of Ukraine in its fight against Russia. Several have also stepped up their imports of Russian energy which pump billions of euros into Moscow's wartime economy. Well into the fourth year of Russia's war against Ukraine, the European Union remains in the precarious position of financing both sides in the conflict. Its large deliveries of military and humanitarian aid to Kyiv are countered by commercial payments to Moscow for...

October 9, 2025 9:02 PM

Putin urges Central Asian states to step up trade with Russia

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the leaders of five Central Asian states to boost their trade with Russia, as Moscow seeks to build back its influence in a region that is also being courted by China. Russia's total trade turnover last year with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan was over $45 billion - a "good result" but well short of the level of its bilateral trade with Belarus, which has a fraction of their combined population, Putin said. He told a s...

October 4, 2025 4:52 PM

Russian strike hits passenger train in Ukraine, injuring dozens

A Russian drone strike hit a passenger train at a station in Ukraine's northern Sumy region, injuring dozens of people, officials said on Saturday. "A brutal Russian drone strike on the railway station in Shostka, Sumy region," Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy wrote on Telegram, posting a video of a wrecked, burning passenger carriage and others with their windows blown out. He said dozens of passengers and rail workers were wounded. Regional governor Oleh Hryhorov said the attack hit ...