Europe has been demanding a seat at the negotiating table for several months, but Moscow has not yet formally agreed. Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special envoys, left Moscow on Thursday with very little new information on the negotiations between Russia and Ukraine.
US envoys Witkoff and Kushner have shuttled between Dublin and Moscow in efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal.
Jared Kushner says move will allow talks to address ‘broader postwar European security arrangements’; Putin refuses to soften territorial demands. What we know on day 1,724 Ukraine and Russia have agreed to expand the next round of peace negotiations to include European countries , Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said late on Thursday, after meeting Russian president Vladimir Putin. “This will allow us to address the broader postwar European security arrangements alongside t...
Reports of attack in Baltic came before US envoys met with Russian and Ukrainian presidents.
US President Donald Trump's envoy and son-in-law Jared Kushner said on Thursday Russia and Ukraine agreed to expand the next round of talks to include European nations and that Washington was working toward what Kushner called the war's "largest prisoner exchange." Follow our liveblog for the latest updates.
The EPC summit was a form of speed-dating for world leaders, with the main focus on Ukraine.
Prosecutors say the woman shared security details with Ukraine, while her lawyers argue the information was not secret.
The Ukrainian president also hailed progress on Europe joining negotiations with Russia and the US.
European nations discuss security collaboration and an envoy for Ukraine peace talks during the summit in Ireland.
The attack is thought to be the first time Ukrainian drones have attacked a Russian ship in an open stretch of the Baltic Sea.
After CENTCOM affirmed it would maintain the naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz and block the IRGC’s land and Caspian routes, Russia called this special taskforce a 'clear violation of international law'. At the same time, the Institute for the Study of War devoted its latest assessment to Tehran-Moscow cooperation in circumventing US arms restrictions.
As renewed diplomatic efforts seek to bring an end to Russia's war on Ukraine, the prospect of a negotiated settlement remains unlikely due to Russia's irreconcilable territorial demands, competing visions of European security and an increasingly unpredictable and pro-Moscow American approach to mediation. For Russia expert Mark Galeotti, Executive Director of Mayak Intelligence and Honorary Professor at University College London's School of Slavonic and East European Studies, Moscow's maxima...
After Steve Witkoff raised hopes that Europeans and Russians would soon sit at the same time, Moscow minimised the prospect and said Europe should cease military support for Ukraine.
Russian president says he would target any foreign troops sent to Ukraine and refuses to soften territorial demands Vladimir Putin warned US negotiators that Russia would target any foreign troops deployed to Ukraine, in a series of hardline remarks that came as the Ukrainian military faced renewed disruptions to Elon Musk’s Starlink satellite service. During the talks at the Kremlin with the US envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on Thursday, the Russian president refused to soften his te...
If and when Ukraine-Russia peace talks progress, who will take Europe’s seat at the table?
The Prime Minister announced the new sanctions as he attended a summit of European leaders in Dublin.
‘Europe needs to pay attention’, warns Zelenskyy after Abu Dhabi talks
The Russian president says he will not water down his demands to control parts of Ukraine
European leaders have pushed back against Russia's attempt to revise the continent's security architecture as part of the Ukraine peace talks.
At least 20,651 cases of deported Ukrainian children have been confirmed, about 1.6 million remain under Russian occupation. During debates several MPs called Russia's policy towards Ukrainian children 'genocide'.
A Russian serviceman was killed when his car exploded in Saint Petersburg on Thursday. Investigators have opened a murder inquiry, while local media report that another person was injured.
A Russian drone strike sparked a major fire at an apartment building in Kyiv, Ukraine, early on Thursday. Residents fled to safety as firefighters battled the flames and rescue workers helped people at the scene.
Restrictions to Starshield ‘directly affect our ability to intercept Russian jet powered drones’, Ukraine’s president says Luxembourg’s PM Luc Frieden looks to be absolutely chuffed to be representing all three Benelux countries at today’s summit, as his Belgian and Dutch colleagues are too busy to attend as they face domestic crises. “I have the privilege of representing 30 millions citizens today,” he said on arrival to Dublin, with a massive smile on his face. Continue reading...
France has warned Germany that it could inadvertently trigger a nuclear war with Russia over its newly acquired long-range missiles. Germany is one of several countries that has recently bolstered its military arsenal, with others including the UK and Poland. The main goal of the increased European defence initiatives is to deter Moscow from making any […]
The two days of talks that ended on Wednesday produced no major breakthrough aside from an agreement to swap a large number of prisoners.
Dan Johnson visits one of the country's largest power stations, barely left standing after a ballistic missile strike by Russia.
The blast occurred in Kolpinsky Prospekt while the commander was driving his SUV. A remote-controlled explosive device had been attached to the vehicle's underside, according to reports.
After meeting with Putin, Kushner said that he and Witkoff will fly to Dublin, Ireland, to meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
Kyiv rarely claims responsibility for such attacks on Russian troops, but Ukrainian forces have previously used similar blasts to show that Russia’s security services are vulnerable.
The meeting with Kushner and Witkoff comes after two days of trilateral talks in the UAE yielded no breakthrough.
Steve Witkoff is making his tenth visit to Russia since Donald Trump's return to the White House, alongside Jared Kushner, as Washington seeks Vladimir Putin's approval to bring European representatives into Ukraine peace negotiations.
The Ukrainian president is expected to meet US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner on the sidelines of the European Political Community summit in Dublin, where they will brief him on the latest peace talks with Russia.
Russia's Foreign Ministry has said that Alexander Darchiev died from a chronic illness at the age of 66. The long-time diplomat had been in the Washington post since early 2025.
Talks in Abu Dhabi centred around Europe's security framework, with US envoys due to meet Putin and Zelensky on Thursday.
The French are holding talks with German officials to understand how Berlin would use deep precision strikes in order to align strategies should the continent go to war with Moscow,
Aged 66, Alexander Darchiev, Russia's ambassador to the United States, died on Wednesday.
US envoys to visit Moscow and Dublin on Thursday for talks with Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy respectively Russia and Ukraine have agreed to the “largest prisoner exchange” of the war at their first US-brokered talks since February but made little progress towards a broader peace agreement. Both sides sent senior delegations to the two-day talks, led by Donald Trump’s envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, in an effort to find a solution to end the nearly-five-year war. Continue rea...
Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a major prisoner exchange following two days of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi
This blog is now closed Separately, I am also keeping an eye on Italy, with reports that several schools are being evacuated after receiving bomb threats by emails. According to Rai and Sky TG24 , the email was signed by “Mikhail Andropov” – the same name used in several hoax bomb alarms against European flights last week. Continue reading...
Moscow on Wednesday said it was banning two French journalists and two French lawmakers from entering Russia in response to Paris's expulsion of pro-Russian TV commentator Xenia Fedorova earlier this year.
Kremlin spokeswoman says ban responds to the expulsion of a Russian commentator who used to head RT France.
Zelensky, speaking from Copenhagen said: 'Nobody stopped Putin. Nobody destroyed him. And he is still alive.
Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said lawmakers Sacha Houlie and Arthur Delaporte would be banned, along with journalists Paul Gogo and Ariane Chemin, who works at Le Monde.
The talks in the UAE capital were the first between the two warring sides since February.
The talks in Abu Dhabi are the first between Russia, Ukraine, and the US since February
The paper said security services and censors forced it to stop operating after they evicted it, shut down its donation system, blocked its printing, and revoked its media registration.
Ukraine and Russia resume US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday, with Kyiv welcoming a shift in Washington's approach but major differences remaining over territory, security guarantees and the terms of a ceasefire.
Ukraine has hailed what it called "good momentum" after two days of US-mediated talks with Russia in Abu Dhabi on ending their war.
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