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What might a Ukraine-Russia peace deal look like?

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may have broken the ice, but Ukraine’s president says his country will not accept any deal unless it is included in the talks.

  • Rob Harris

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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting with US Treasury Secretary (unseen) in Kyiv to discuss a rare-minerals-for-security deal.

‘Security shield’: US hands Zelensky draft deal on rare minerals

The idea of a minerals-for-security deal is said to have come from Ukraine to appeal to Donald Trump’s business-first mindset.

  • Tom Balmforth, Max Hunder and Yuliia Dysa
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin held a 90-minute phone call, their first as leaders since the Ukraine war started.

This is Putin and Trump’s world now

America is no longer interested in underwriting Ukrainian and European security. Britain and Europe must ask whether they want to be at the table – or on the menu.

  • Roland Oliphant
Vladimir Putin with Donald Trump in 2017. The Russian president has been at pains to praise his US counterpart in recent days, a proven way to get Donald Trump’s attention.

Putin accepts Trump’s invitation to ‘come in from the cold’

“The time has come for our countries to work together,” the Kremlin has said, after a phone call between the Russian and US presidents.

  • Michael Koziol
Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at the G20 Summit in Hamburg in 2017.

Trump and Putin plan Saudi Arabia meeting as US lays out blunt vision for Ukraine

While praising Putin for his “common sense”, Trump said the two men had a lengthy and productive phone call and agreed to visit each other’s countries.

  • Michael Koziol
Marc Fogel on an airplane after his release from Russia, on Tuesday.

Trump says ‘we were treated very nicely by Russia’ as jailed American tastes freedom

Marc Fogel was arrested in Moscow in 2021 and was serving a 14-year prison sentence. His family and supporters said he had been caught with medically prescribed marijuana.

  • Chris Megerian
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US President Donald Trump.

Trump says US making progress with Russia, coy on Putin talks

Donald Trump said the US was in touch with both Russia and Ukraine. “We’re talking to both sides,” he said.

  • Guy Faulconbridge
Donald Trump insists NATO nations ramp up defence outlays to 5 per cent of their annual economic output.

Trump pressures Europe to fix its own defences

Europe knows after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine that it needs to spend more on defence. Donald Trump’s election has only made that imperative more urgent.

  • Jeanna Smialek and Steven Erlanger
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Zelensky’s office deems US push for truce, elections a ‘failed plan’

Kyiv has repeatedly said it does not want a ceasefire without obtaining security guarantees that would stop Moscow regenerating its forces and launching another invasion in the future.

  • Tom Balmforth
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Kyiv on Saturday.

Ukraine, Russia accuse each other of deadly strike on boarding school

The bomb killed at least four people in a dormitory in a part of Russia’s Kursk region held by Kyiv forces.

  • Oleksandr Kozhukhar

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