When Russian and Ukrainian peace negotiators met last month, they could agree on little more than exchanging bodies. Those negotiations, brokered by the Trump administration, appeared to show its goal of ending the war was deeply stalled.

Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime minister – the key negotiator of his country’s deal with the U.S. to partner on the development of minerals.

Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces have carved out a 10-mile-deep pocket around the Ukrainian troops defending the crucial city of Kostiantynivka, partly surrounding them from the east, south and west.

For the past three years carpenter Matt has been delivering aid to the city of Sumy, which is on the front line of the war in Ukraine. Every six weeks he makes the 2,000-mile (3,219km) trip from his home in Oxfordshire, working extra days so he can afford to regularly drive to the warzone.

Britain and Germany are set to pledge new air defense systems for Ukraine as the UK government pushes for a “50-day drive” to arm Kyiv and bring Russian President Vladimir Putin to the negotiating table.

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said Sunday that President Trump “made an enormous mistake” in blaming the Russia-Ukraine war on the Ukrainians. “I think the Trump administration made an enormous

Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world In the past two weeks, Donald Trump has woken up to something that has long been clear to most observers: Vladimir Putin has been playing him.

More than a dozen war veterans from Ukraine were on hand when Oleksandr Usyk faced Daniel Dubois at Wembley Stadium on Saturday night and Usyk become the undisputed world heavyweight champion.