Washington and Kyiv appear to have made notable shifts to secure progress, but big questions remain, not least whether Moscow will once again reject making concessions.

American officials on Monday described significant progress in talks to bring Russia’s war in Ukraine to an end, suggesting beefed-up security guarantees for Kyiv had advanced the peace talks — but th...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will resume talks with the U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoys in Berlin on Monday (December 15, 2025), after the U.S. side said a “lot of progress” had been m...

American officials on Monday described significant progress in talks to bring Russia’s war in Ukraine to an end, suggesting beefed-up security guarantees for Kyiv had advanced the peace talks — but th...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday (December 15) that the question of territory remained painful in peace talks to end Russia's war on Ukraine, but that he believed the U.S. would ...

"I think we're closer now than we have been ever," Trump told reporters in the Oval Office, adding that he had "very long and very good talks" with Zelensky and others, including the leaders of Britai...

The Kremlin has described Ukraine’s push to join NATO as one of the “root causes” of the conflict. Russia sees an expanding NATO as a major security threat. But NATO’s expansion into the Baltics and other post-Soviet states is driven by a fear that Moscow would one day invade and try to fold them back under its control—as seen in Ukraine.