"Without really strong pressure on the Russian leadership, this brutality cannot be stopped. Sanctions will definitely help," ...

"Ukraine continues to coordinate its sanction decisions with the sanction regimes of the European Union and other key global ...

Putin’s surprise call for peace talks with Ukraine is likely a strategic move, not genuine diplomacy, amid rising Western ...

Putin of Russia had ordered the cease-fire was met swiftly with skepticism by Ukrainian officials. “There is no reason to wait until May 8,” President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said in his ...

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U.S. President Donald Trump announced potential new sanctions on Russia while also criticising Ukrainian President Volodymyr ...

“For some reason, everyone is supposed to wait until May 8 before ceasing fire, just to provide Putin with silence for his parade,” Zelensky said. “We value human lives, not parades.” ...

SHOWDOWN talks between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky will be like an ice cold poker game, an expert says. And one of the two rivals will have a clear upper hand if potential peace ...

Zelensky and Putin have met in public once before, at the Elysee Palace in Paris, in 2019, when they spoke about the conflict in the Donbas. But the pair could now meet in the iconic Turkish city ...

It also accused Zelensky of making a "direct threat" to events on the holiday. The Kremlin rejected an unconditional 30-day ceasefire proposed by Kyiv and Washington in March, and Putin has since ...