The Pope appeared to choke up as symbols of the papacy were placed on him during his inauguration mass. He will meet Volodymyr Zelensky, who shook hands with JD Vance at the event.
Anthony Albanese is tipped to meet Ukraine’s president in Rome after Russian occupiers put an Australian fighter though a ‘sham trial’.
Donald Trump has been pressing Russia to agree to a 30-day unconditional ceasefire. His comments follow the first direct talks between Russia and Ukraine in more than three years.
Bridget Brink, Washington’s representative to Ukraine since 2022, ended a three-decade career after the president ‘put pressure on the victim’ of aggression.
Anthony Albanese lashed the sentence handed to Australian Oscar Jenkins as he tries to ‘nut down’ a meeting with Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky in Rome this weekend.
Australia’s Foreign Minister has slammed Russia’s “sham trial” after captured Australian man Oscar Jenkins was handed a 13-year jail term for fighting in the war in Ukraine.
Russia and Ukraine agreed on Friday to exchange 1000 prisoners of war each, the head of Russia’s delegation Vladimir Medinsky said after their peace talks ended.
Under the watchful eye of their Australian teachers, scores of Ukrainians are put through a snap two-week training course before being sent to fight the Russian invaders.
Donald Trump says he doesn’t expect any progress on Ukraine until he meets Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin, who declined to travel to Turkey for talks with Volodymyr Zelensky.
Pope Leo XIV ’s inauguration on Sunday will be a symbol-laden welcome before hundreds of thousands of Catholic faithful crammed into St Peter’s Square, but like Pope Francis’s funeral just a fortnight ago, it will be the interaction of world leaders that will be intensely scrutinised.
There can no longer be any equivocation by the US about where wrong lies in the Ukraine war.
A think tank said Russia would be able to rebuild its forces after a ceasefire in Ukraine and warned of the cost of US withdrawal from the Western alliance.
The pontiff’s inauguration provides the opportunity for the Ukrainian leader to repair relations with the US after his Oval Office row with the Vice President.
Volodymyr Zelensky has landed in Ankara for talks with Turkey’s president but Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump won’t join the peace negotiations.
The apparent decision by Vladimir Putin not to attend the peace talks leaves them in doubt, after Volodymyr Zelensky said he would negotiate only with the Russian leader in person.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says reports an Australian man has been killed in eastern Ukraine after he was reported missing are “deeply troubling”.
The Ukraine President will refuse to negotiate with anyone but Vladimir Putin in Turkey over ceasefire, an adviser has said, as Moscow refuses to confirm the Russian leader’s attendance.
Ukraine said if Vladimir Putin skips talks in Turkey this week it would be a ‘clear sign’ to the world the Russian leader is not serious about peace, and the West should reply with boosted military support to Kyiv.
A UN aviation body has found Russia was responsible for MH17 being shot down over Ukraine in an attack that killed 298 people, including 38 Australians.
The International Civil Aviation Organisation said claims brought by Australia and the Netherlands over the shooting down of Flight MH17 in 2014 were ‘well founded in fact and in law.’
By inviting Donald Trump to join the talks, Volodymyr Zelensky appears to be trying to portray Vladimir Putin as the true obstacle to peace: US President suggests he could travel to Turkey.
The sooner Trump accepts reality of situation in Ukraine the better.
The former member of the Australian Defence Force was killed while working on a humanitarian mission.
An Australian man and former soldier has died while volunteering in Ukraine.
If Putin doesn’t turn up in Istanbul to meet Zelensky, he won’t look serious about peace. Unless the Russian President changes course, Donald Trump is likely to abandon him
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Volodymyr Zelensky said he would be waiting for Vladimir Putin in Turkey on Thursday, after Donald Trump swung behind the Russian president’s offer of talks before a ceasefire.
An estimated 100,000 people greeted the new Pope as he delivered his first Sunday blessing as pontiff in St Peter’s Square. He said a third world war was under way ‘in pieces’.
Kyiv’s European allies threatened new sanctions against Russia, including a permanent block on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, if the Kremlin doesn’t agree to Donald Trump’s 30-day ceasefire.
Hours after Kyiv and European leaders call for unconditional 30-day ceasefire, Russian leader slams ‘ultimatums’, saying he wants ‘serious negotiations’ to tackle the conflict’s ‘root causes’.
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