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Trilateral push: Trump, Zelenskyy open to talks with Putin on Ukraine war

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy say they are willing to enter trilateral dialogue with Vladimir Putin to end Russia's war in Ukraine

Suit looks good, says Trump as Zelenskyy ditches sweatshirt at White House

Volodymyr Zelenskyy swapped his wartime sweatshirt for a suit at the White House, a shift in tone during his latest meeting with Donald Trump after February's tense clash

Russian attacks kill 10 in Ukraine, hours before Zelenskyy's WH visit

Ukrainian officials pointed to the attacks as a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities

Trump meets Zelenskyy, says Ukraine war might be the 'easiest to end'

Trump met Zelenskyy at the White House, days after talks with Putin in Alaska, and said both leaders wanted peace as European leaders joined negotiations on Ukraine

China refines Russian oil then sells, Europe can toughen sanctions: Rubio

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the Russian oil that China is buying is being refined by Beijing, and that refined oil is then sold into the global marketplace. "Well, if you look at the oil that's going to China and being refined, a lot of that is then being sold back into Europe. Europe's also buying natural gas still. Now, there are countries trying to wean themselves off it, but there's more Europe can do with regard to their own sanctions," Rubio said in an interview with Fox Business on Sunday. He was responding to a question on whether Europe is still buying Russian oil. To a follow-up question on whether sanctions are being contemplated against Europe for continuing to buy oil and gas from Russia, Rubio said: "Well, I don't know about (sanctions) on Europe directly, obviously, but certainly there are implications to secondary sanctions. "If you put secondary sanctions on a country let's say you were to go after the oil sales of Russian oil to China well, China jus

Ready to push for peace ahead of talks with Trump, says Zelenskyy

European leaders are also flying to Washington to show solidarity with Ukraine and to press for strong security guarantees in any post-war settlement

Putin calls PM Modi after Alaska meet with Trump, bilateral ties reviewed

Prime Minister Modi said Putin phoned him to share insights from his Alaska meeting with Trump, as India and Russia reaffirmed close ties amid US tariffs on Indian goods

Asian stocks rise as investors track Ukraine war after Trump-Putin summit

Asian shares were mostly higher Monday after US stocks edged back from their record levels on Friday. US futures were little changed as investors watched for developments in the Ukraine crisis following a summit between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin that brought no breakthroughs. Japan's Nikkei 225 gained 0.9 per cent to 43.776.38, while the Hang Seng in Hong Kong added 0.3 per cent to 25,344.48. The Shanghai Composite index jumped 1.2 per cent to 3,740.50. Australia's S&P/ASX 200 was virtually unchanged, while the Kospi in South Korea declined 1.3 per cent to 3,184.17. Trump was preparing to meet later Monday with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European leaders in Washington. The European vanguard were not included in Trump's summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last Friday. They are seeking to present a united front in safeguarding Ukraine and the continent from any widening aggression from Moscow. An annual meeting in .

Zelenskyy-Trump White House talks: What to know about Ukraine peace plan

Ukrainian president to meet Donald Trump in Washington after US president signalled support for Russia's demands at Alaska summit; European leaders expected to join

Trump-Putin Alaska meet: When spectacle meets discipline in brand politics

When Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Anchorage on August 15, the world expected diplomacy. What it got instead was brand theatre

Trump's peace deal demands leave Zelenskyy with only tough choices

Situation is made even more tenuous by the memory of his last visit to the White House in February that erupted into a bitter exchange between Zelenskyy and Trump and led to a halt in military support

Zelenskyy, European allies seek clarity on Trump's peace talks with Putin

Unease hangs over the allies, which have few options for pushing back on demands from Trump that Ukraine may oppose, and are skeptical that Putin really wants peace

Ukraine may have to recognise territorial losses under peace deal: Macron

The French leader also recalled that several Western countries have expressed readiness to send several thousand troops to Ukraine to ensure post-conflict peace, as per Tass

Putin agrees that US could offer Nato-style security to Ukraine: Witkoff

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war, a U.S. official said Sunday. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff, who took part in the talks Friday at a military base in Alaska, said it was the first time we had ever heard the Russians agree to that and called it game-changing. We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO," Witkoff told CNN's State of the Union. Witkoff offered few details on how such an arrangement would work. But it appeared to be a major shift for Putin and could serve as a workaround to his deep-seated objection to Ukraine's potential NATO membership, a step that Kyiv has long sought. It was expected to be a key topic Monday as Ukrainian ...

Trump runs into the difficulty of Putin diplomacy, ending long war

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening severe consequences and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine. Instead, Trump was the one who stood down, dropping his demand for a ceasefire in favour of pursuing a full peace accord a position that aligns with Putin's. After calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders, Trump wrote as he flew home from Friday's meeting in Alaska that it had been determined by all that the best way to end the horrific war between Russia and Ukraine is to go directly to a Peace Agreement, which would end the war, and not a mere Ceasefire Agreement, which often times do not hold up. It was a dramatic reversal that laid bare the challenges of dealing with Putin, a cunning adversary, as well as the complexities of a conflict that Trump had repeatedly boasted during his campaign that he could solve within 24

Ukraine ceasefire still on table as Trump seeks deal, says Rubio

While Donald Trump had gone into Friday's summit with Putin seeking a ceasefire, he'd emerged saying he was going to focus on a final settlement

'Consider children': US First Lady urges Putin in letter to end Ukraine war

Melania Trump took the unique step of crafting a letter that calls for peace in Ukraine, having her husband President Donald Trump hand-deliver it to Russian President Vladimir Putin during their Friday meeting in Alaska. The letter did not specifically name Ukraine, which Putin's forces invaded in 2022, but beseeched him to think of children and an innocence which stands above geography, government, and ideology. Nor did the American first lady discuss the fighting other than to say to Putin that he could singlehandedly restore the melodic laughter of children who have been caught in the conflict. In protecting the innocence of these children, you will do more than serve Russia alone you serve humanity itself, she wrote on White House stationery. A copy of the letter was first obtained by Fox News Digital and later posted on social media by supporters of the US president, including Attorney General Pam Bondi. The first lady said that Putin could help these children with the strok

Alaskan encounter: Only Russian President Putin gained from the meeting

At most, it offers more compelling evidence of the US's abdication of its role as a principled interlocutor in global conflicts

Putin agreed to Ukraine security protections in Trump summit: US envoy

Special US envoy Steve Witkoff said Sunday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump to allow the US and European allies to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defence mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the 3 1/2-year war. We were able to win the following concession: That the United States could offer Article 5-like protection, which is one of the real reasons why Ukraine wants to be in NATO," he said on CNN's State of the Union. Witkoff said it was the first time he had heard Putin agree to that. European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at a news conference in Brussels with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said that "we welcome President Trump's willingness to contribute to Article 5-like security guarantees for Ukraine. and the Coalition of the willing' -- including the European Union -- is ready to do its share. Witkoff, offering some of the first details of what was discuss

European leaders to join Zelenskyy in US as Trump presses Ukraine deal

President Trump is leaning on Zelenskyy to strike an agreement after he met Kremlin chief Vladimir Putin on Friday in Alaska