Zelensky seeks more air defence as Russia plunges Kyiv into cold

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is pleading for more air defence support from allies as almost 2,000 buildings in Kyiv ...

Ukraine, Russia, US discuss fraught issue of territorial concessions in Abu Dhabi

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region is a key focus as negotiators from ...

Russia and Ukraine hold joint peace talks with U.S. for the first time

The Kremlin stuck to its demand that Ukraine withdraw all its forces from the eastern Donbas region ahead of the talks in Abu ...

Putin’s New Competitor in Wielding Unchecked Power Is Trump

If the United States under President Trump starts acting as if it’s Russia, where does that leave President Vladimir V. Putin ...

Russia, Ukraine and the US are holding peace talks in Abu Dhabi. They’re coming at a key moment

Ukrainian, Russian and U.S. envoys are meeting in the United Arab Emirates, the first known instance that officials from the ...

What is the Donbas, the piece of Ukrainian land that Putin wants so badly?

The United States, Russia and Ukraine rarely agree on anything. But as their delegations head to Abu Dhabi for their first ...
Council on Foreign Relations

Russia’s Wary Embrace of Trump’s Transatlantic Disruption

Europe tensions over Greenland as possibly helping to achieve its long-sought goal of weakening NATO, but Donald Trump’s ...
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty

Russia Signals No Change In Demands At Abu Dhabi Talks With US, Ukraine

The Kremlin said it was satisfied with the outcome of nearly four hours of talks hosted by President Vladimir Putin, indicating no softening of hard-line territorial demands to end its war on Ukraine ...

Putin Starts Kremlin Talks With US Envoys Witkoff and Kushner

Russian President Vladimir Putin began talks with US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Moscow on the latest peace ...