The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

The US president hosted European leaders at short notice amid intense political efforts to end the war in Ukraine. Here are four key points to what was achieved

President Donald Trump said Monday he called Russian President Vladimir Putin after meetings at the White House with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a group of European leaders and began setting up a face-to-face meeting between Putin and Zelensky.

Putin and Zelensky could meet within just two weeks as European leaders hail ‘breakthrough’ in Washington

The U.N. humanitarian office says a record 383 aid workers were killed in global hotspots in 2024, nearly half of them in Gaza during the war between Israel and Hamas

Spokeswoman refuses to confirm possible location for talks, says Trump ‘definitively’ rules out US troops in Ukraine but remains open to air support

Ted Pappageorge, who leads the influential Culinary Workers Union, has dubbed the situation the ‘Trump slump’

‘Borders change all the time!’ declared the TV anchor as he explained why Volodymyr Zelensky should let Russia keep Crimea and the Donbas

US president says security guarantees for Kyiv could be provided by European countries with ‘coordination’ by Washington

Posting on his Truth Social platform after the meeting, Donald Trump also described the talks as ‘very good’.

Ukrainian president ready for bilateral meeting with Putin; Russian attacks continue with Kharkiv and Zaporizhzhia among targets. What we know on day 1,273

For all the pomp and staged drama of the summit between Presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin in Alaska, the substantive part of the spectacle – that is, the negotiations between two great powers over the grinding war in Ukraine – did not at first appear to yield much. There…