• WATCH: Trump says he and Putin ‘made some headway’ toward Ukraine war deal

    WATCH: Trump says he and Putin ‘made some headway’ toward Ukraine war deal

    Aug 16, 2025 12:29 AM EDT

    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 ...

  • Trump meets Putin in Alaska with future of Ukraine war hanging in balance

    Trump meets Putin in Alaska with future of Ukraine war hanging in balance

    Aug 15, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Pope Leo XIV prays for peace as U.S.-Russia summit over Ukraine war gets underway

    Pope Leo XIV prays for peace as U.S.-Russia summit over Ukraine war gets underway

    Aug 15, 2025 12:39 PM EDT

    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 ...

  • Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for high-stakes summit on Russia-Ukraine war

    Trump and Putin to meet in Alaska for high-stakes summit on Russia-Ukraine war

    Aug 15, 2025 11:35 AM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Trump's nod to Europe on a future peace force for Ukraine vastly improves its chances of success

    Trump's nod to Europe on a future peace force for Ukraine vastly improves its chances of success

    Aug 14, 2025 03:52 PM EDT

    ... 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 ...

  • Ahead of summit, Trump says Russia will face consequences if Putin won't end Ukraine war

    Ahead of summit, Trump says Russia will face consequences if Putin won't end Ukraine war

    Aug 13, 2025 10:55 PM EDT

    For him, the status of Ukraine, its potential future membership in NATO, the nature of Ukraine's future security relationship with the West, the political character of the Ukrainian state, the size of the Ukrainian military, all of these things are ultimately more important than where the line is drawn ...

  • Germany and Western allies sending military aid to Ukraine using new NATO supply line

    Germany and Western allies sending military aid to Ukraine using new NATO supply line

    Aug 13, 2025 05:40 PM EDT

    ... equipment is supplied based on Ukraine’s priority needs on the battlefield. NATO allies then locate the weapons and ammunition and send them on. Germany has delivered or pledged military support to Ukraine worth around 40 billion euros ($47 billion) since Russia launched its full-scale invasion in February 2022.

  • Zelenskyy says Putin wants the rest of Ukraine's Donetsk region as part of a ceasefire

    Zelenskyy says Putin wants the rest of Ukraine's Donetsk region as part of a ceasefire

    Aug 12, 2025 07:33 PM EDT

    ... dynamic." Elsewhere in Ukraine, a Russian missile attack on a military training facility left one soldier dead and 11 others wounded, the Ukrainian Ground Forces posted on social media. Associated Press writer Hanna Arhirova in Kyiv, Ukraine, and Emma Burrows in London contributed to this report. Cook reported from Brussels.

  • Ceding land to Russia not only unpopular in Ukraine, but also illegal

    Ceding land to Russia not only unpopular in Ukraine, but also illegal

    Aug 12, 2025 05:14 PM EDT

    Oksana Markarova, Ukraine's ambassador to the U.S., brought a copy of her country's constitution to her interview on Sunday with CBS' “Face the Nation,” and described how the president is “the guarantor of the constitution” and cannot give away land under Article 133. Zelenskyy is still trying ...

  • News Wrap: Trump plans to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Putin

    News Wrap: Trump plans to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Putin

    Aug 11, 2025 10:50 PM EDT

    In our news wrap Monday, President Trump said he's planning to discuss Ukraine's future borders with Putin when the two meet in Alaska, a judge in New York rejected a Justice Department request to unseal grand jury records from Ghislaine Maxwell's sex trafficking case and officials in Pennsylvania say at least one person is confirmed...