Negotiators solved probably “90% of the issues between Ukraine and Russia ,” the U.S. official told reporters, and Trump “believes he can get Russia to accept” the “NATO-like” guarantee and European Union membership for Ukraine.

The latest proposal is designed to deter future Russian aggression. But Russia is not part of the talks and has shown little willingness to negotiate.

At least three oil tankers have been hit by explosions in what appears to be a stepped up unilateral effort by Ukraine to sink Russia's sanctions-dodging oil sales.

Trump for months has been convinced Putin is hellbent on taking over the entirety of Ukraine with his nearly four-year-old war there — disagreeing with unnamed advisors who felt giving him

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed the U.S. agrees with the Kremlin that Ukraine should hand over control of land where ethnic Russians live to Moscow. "It is good that the Americans have understood this," Lavrov told Russian television in a new interview published Tuesday, originally in Russian.

The attack with Ukrainian-made "Sub Sea Baby" drones hit the submarine in the port of Novorossiysk where Russia has rebased many of its Black Sea naval vessels to put them out of reach of Ukrainian strikes, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) said.

A PEACE deal to end the bloody war in Ukraine appears to be closer than ever following America’s offer to provide Kyiv with iron-clad security guarantees. The dialogues at the Berlin peace summit

The Kremlin has described Ukraine’s push to join NATO as one of the “root causes” of the conflict. U.S. President Donald Trump has ruled out Ukrainian membership in the Western defensive alliance. Zelensky is searching for compromises that could secure a peace deal to end Russia’s ongoing invasion.