Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Thursday, Moscow’s largest attack in weeks after US-led efforts to halt the Kremlin’s invasion.
Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Air Force said on Thursday, Moscow’s largest attack in weeks after US-led efforts to halt the Kremlin’s invasion.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Wednesday accused European leaders of making “clumsy attempts” to change US President Donald Trump’s position on Ukraine. “We have only seen aggressive escalation of the situation and rather clumsy attempts to change the position of the US president,” he said.
The White House said that the United States will not deploy military forces on the ground in Ukraine. White House Spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said in a press conference that the United States could help coordinate and possibly provide other security guarantees to its European allies.
The United States and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) countries have started formulating security options for Ukraine, following President Donald Trump’s pledge to help protect Kyiv under any agreement to end the Russian war. Reuters reported that American and European military planners have begun mulling post-conflict security guarantees for Ukraine.
The Syrian foreign minister held direct talks with an Israeli delegation in Paris following a US-brokered meeting as part of a diplomatic effort to normalize relations, despite the recent tensions between the two sides.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Tuesday that any peace agreement on Ukraine must guarantee Russia’s security, speaking a day after high-level talks in Washington to resolve the conflict.
More than three years into Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine, the conflict has transformed international relations. What Moscow had conceived as a limited and rapid campaign has evolved into a protracted war that has reshaped the global strategic landscape. The confrontation has transcended the European theater and served as non-European states to assert themselves into …
China said on Tuesday that it supports “all efforts” towards peace between Russia and Ukraine after presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky looked set for a summit in the coming weeks. “China always believes that dialogue and negotiation are the only solution to the Ukraine crisis,” China’s foreign ministry spokesperson Mao Ning said, adding: “We …
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, during a phone call, called for the continuation of direct talks between Moscow and Kyiv and discussed the idea of raising the level of these talks.
French President Emmanuel Macron suggested Geneva could play host to a peace summit between Russian and Ukrainian leaders Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, who look set to meet after separate talks with US President Donald Trump. Speaking after he and other European leaders joined the Ukrainian president at the White House on Monday, Macron said …