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Letters: Readers react to the security breach by senior Trump administration figures

The second Donald Trump administration has already sent shockwaves through the political establishment on both sides of the Atlantic. Overseas, the focus has been on the administration’s apparent dismantling of the post-war international order and Trump’s apparent pivot away from America’s traditional allies towards a warmer relationship with Russia and…

Deals with the Russian president cannot be trusted and once Donald Trump sees this he may change his attitude, says Zelensky ally

The White House says Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a ceasefire in the Black Sea, with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy asserting the truce was effective immediately while also accusing Russia of lying about the deal’s terms.

The soldiers went missing from a training area outside of Lithuania’s capital

When Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky interrupted a press conference he was holding to answer a telephone call from his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, he opened a window into a new world of geopolitical diplomacy.

BBC News was suddenly interrupted on Tuesday morning (March 25) as presenter Kasia Madera broke in with a major update coming straight from Moscow.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other Wednesday of derailing a US-brokered deal that could see the warring countries halt attacks on the Black Sea and against energy sites.

NEWS ANALYSIS: Russia is manipulating ceasefire terms over the Black Sea and energy, but that suits Ukraine and gives Kyiv time to build up help from Europe writes World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley

Truce has been announced by the White House, but the Kremlin has so far shown no signs of implementing it

Putin may seize the moment to build a strategic land bridge via the Suwałki Gap, which links the Russian ethnic enclave of Kaliningrad to its client state of Belarus.