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... in the war. A top Russian military official later said that securing a land corridor from Russia to Crimea by holding the occupied parts of Ukraine’s Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson regions was among the key goals of what the Kremlin called its “special military operation” in Ukraine. Before ...
... Leyen called for working together on “a just and lasting peace,” while Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni called the gathering “an important day and new phase.” Ukraine talks could signal future for European security A focal point for negotiations on ending the war with Russia has been security guarantees for Ukraine ...
“It is important that America agrees to work with Europe to provide security guarantees for Ukraine,” he said, “But there are no details how it will work, and what America’s role will be, Europe’s role will be and what the EU can do, and this is our ...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Monday in Washington with U.S. President Donald Trump, who has shifted to saying an overall peace agreement — and not a ceasefire — is the next step in ending the 3 1/2-year-old war.
... Trump and Putin filed into a room of journalists and the American and Russian delegations. Putin spoke first, saying they had reached an “understanding” on Ukraine but offered no details. He agreed with Trump's long-repeated assertion that Russia never would have invaded Ukraine in 2022 had Trump been ...
President Donald Trump said Friday that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin “made some headway” on Ukraine during their summit in Alaska. Watch Trump's remarks in the video player above. Trump, who called the meeting “very profound” and “productive,” said that while there were “many, many points that we ...
... we have been discussing for weeks, Amna, European officials are very worried that President Trump would make a deal with President Putin somehow carving up Ukraine or making a deal about the future of Ukraine without Ukraine in the room. And that has been a consistent worry of European officials ...
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy (AP) — Pope Leo XIV prayed Friday for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world as he celebrated a Catholic feast day on the same day as a high-stakes U.S.-Russia summit over the war in Ukraine. History’s first ...
... traditional diplomacy for his own transactional approach to relationships. The meeting comes as the war has caused heavy losses on both sides and drained resources. Ukraine has held on far longer than some initially expected since the February 2022 invasion, but it is straining to hold off Russia’s much ...
... with the U.S. on ending the conflict and called for the participation of an American delegation in force coordination meetings. NATO membership would be Ukraine's best security guarantee, but the Trump administration took that possibility off the table in February. Putin is deeply opposed to Ukraine joining the ...
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