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KYIV, Ukraine—Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky pushed back on a U.S. proposal to recognize Russia’s control of Crimea as part of a cease-fire agreement, throwing into doubt President Trump’s efforts to bring a quick end to the war. “Ukraine will not legally recognize the occupation of Crimea,” Zelensky said at a press conference here on Tuesday. “There’s nothing to talk about here. This is against our constitution.” Zelensky’s dismissal upends Trump’s latest gambit to halt the war in Ukraine—now in its fourth year—and casts new uncertainty on the future of the relationship between Kyiv and Washington, which Trump has made conditional...

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared an "Easter truce" in the war in Ukraine on Saturday, saying that the Russian side will cease military action from 6 p.m. local Saturday night until midnight April 21. Putin said he assumes that "the Ukrainian side will follow our example," according to a statement on the Kremlin's Telegram channel. But he also says Russia will respond to "violations of the truce and provocations" by Ukraine, the statement said. There has been no response yet from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy or Ukrainian officials. The proposed truce comes as U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Marco...

NBC: "Just hours ago, President Trump called me to tell me he is 'pissed off' with Russia's President Putin and threatened to impose secondary tariffs on Russia's oil."

Employees with the U.S. Institute of Peace started receiving termination letters effective immediately on Friday evening, five people told POLITICO, a major blow to the embattled organization as the Trump administration seeks to dismantle its operations.

Sen. Chris Coons (D-Del.) said it’s clear that Russia “remains the obstacle to peace” following a highly anticipated phone call between President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. “From these readouts, it’s clear that Russia remains the obstacle to peace in Europe,” Coons said in a post on the social platform X. Trump and Putin spoke for nearly three hours on Tuesday, amid the Trump administration’s push to secure Moscow’s agreement to a 30-day ceasefire in its war against Ukraine, which backed the proposal last week. Putin rejected the proposal on the call Tuesday, according to the Kremlin’s...

President Donald Trump confirmed that he is set to hold Ukraine war peace talks with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday this week, saying land and power plants are among the items on the agenda for how a post-war Ukraine will look. Negotiations over the future of the Ukraine War have been continuing behind closed doors between the United States of America and the Russian Federation, President Trump said, as he revealed that leader talks are scheduled for Tuesday. President Trump greeted journalists aboard Air Force One as he flew from Florida to Washington D.C. late Sunday night and opened...

President Donald Trump and European leaders cautiously welcomed Russia’s President Vladimir Putin saying he accepted the basic precepts of a ceasefire, but Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky warns Moscow demanding concessions is a “predictable” bid to derail talks altogether. On Thursday, a delegation of American negotiators had talks in Moscow, Russia, in hope of agreeing step one of President Trump’s Ukraine peace plan, a 30-day ceasefire. President Putin said Russia supports the notion in general terms, but said “there are issues that we need to discuss, and I think that we need to discuss it with our American colleagues and partners”...

BREAKING 🚨 President Putin officially agrees to a ceasefire with Ukraine thanks to Donald Trump 🔥 Donald Trump has done the impossible and will go down in history as saving the World God Bless Trump

A senior aide to President Vladimir Putin has rejected any temporary cease-fire with Ukraine just hours before a US delegation arrived in Russia for talks with Moscow where they will urge the Kremlin to agree to a 30-day cease-fire proposal or face sanctions. Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said in an interview broadcast on state television on March 13 that U.S. President Donald Trump's proposed cease-fire, which Kyiv has agreed to, would only give Ukraine time to recover from pressure Russia has been exerting on its troops. "I have stated our position that this is nothing other than a temporary respite...

That was quick. Ukraine agreed to a 30-day ceasefire with Russia after negotiations with the United States. Late last month Trump abruptly ended his meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after a blow-up in the Oval Office. A defiant and ungrateful Zelensky was told to leave the White House and not come back until he’s ready for peace talks. .@VP: “Do you think that it’s respectful to come to the Oval Office of the United States of America and attack the administration that is trying to prevent the destruction of your country?”@POTUS: “You don’t have the cards right now. With...

German cities celebrated Rosenmontag carnival with traditional floats showing caricatures, and once again President Donald Trump has proven irresistible to model makers satirising current events. Carnival floats depicting President Trump destroying Ukraine with the aid of Vladimir Putin, as Darth Vader, as Emperor Nero, and even naked with enormous testicles were paraded in German cities on Shrove Monday, ‘Rosenmontag’. The climax of the German carnival season — a Teutonic Mardi Gras — German cities compete to satirise German politics, social issues, and world events with the most grotesque, scatological, and often quite sexually explicit and violent giant papier-mache models paraded...

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — A deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia “is still very, very far away,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that he believed Ukraine’s long-term partnership with the U.S. was strong enough that American support would continue despite recent fraught relations with U.S. President Donald Trump.

Ukrainian-Russian couples have long been common, a reflection of the deeply intertwined history the two countries share. Many Ukrainians have relatives in Russia, and vice versa, and travel between the two countries was common before the war. Roman and Liliya Roman Romanenko, 33, already got the call from the military and answered it, but that took him even farther from his 34-year-old wife, Liliya, who lives in St. Petersburg. The couple met online and were married on Jan. 20, 2022 — he had planned to join her in Russia a few months later. The February invasion upended those plans, Roman...

European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone.When the United States lined up alongside Russia and North Korea earlier this week to oppose a UN motion condemning Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, some European officials knew that the transatlantic relationship was in deep trouble. Then they watched in horror as Donald Trump gave Volodymyr Zelenskiy a public dressing down in the Oval Office and something broke.

Good evening: I have addressed the Nation a number of times over the past 2 years on the problems of ending a war. Because of the progress we have made toward achieving that goal, this Sunday evening is an appropriate time for us to turn our attention to the challenges of peace. America today has the best opportunity in this century to achieve two of its greatest ideals: to bring about a full generation of peace, and to create a new prosperity without war. Prosperity without war requires action on three fronts: We must create more and better jobs; we...

UK Prime Minister Sir Kier Starmer said ahead of a Lancaster House summit on Sunday that Britain and France will work to craft a Ukraine ceasefire deal that would be presented to the United States. Echoing the language of former U.S. President George W. Bush, the Labour Party leader said that London and Paris will seek to build a “coalition of the willing” to enforce a peace in Ukraine. The UK and France have already committed to sending troops into the former Eastern bloc nation to act as peacekeepers, but other European nations, notably Italy, Germany, and Poland, have so...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin offered the U.S. the opportunity for joint exploration of the country's rare earth metals deposits, as well as the supply of aluminum to the U.S. domestic market, under a future economic deal.U.S. President Donald Trump earlier said that "major economic development transactions with Russia" would take place. Within two hours of Trump's statement, Putin chaired a meeting with his ministers and economic advisers on rare earth metals."We, by the way, would be ready to offer (joint projects with) our American partners, and when I say 'partners,' I mean not only administrative and governmental structures...

French President Emmanuel Macron will meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, DC, on Monday and take the opportunity to present “proposals for action” to counter the “Russian threat” in Europe and ensure peace in Ukraine. The leaders will come together just days after Macron told Trump to toughen up and not “be weak” in the face of Vladimir Putin’s aggression, as Breitbart News reported. Macron used a one-hour question and answer session on his social media Thursday to declare he’ll tell his White House counterpart: “You can’t be weak in the face of President Putin. It’s not you, it’s...

The United States is persuading its allies to block the Ukrainian UN resolution on the armed conflict. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing sources. The administration of President Donald Trump has called on all UN members to instead support the American draft resolution aimed at paving the way for peace between Kiev and Moscow, the State Department reports. "The people, who spoke on condition of anonymity ... said they were stunned by the persistence of the United States, as well as their reluctance to condemn Russia for a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022," the publication says....

53 years ago today, on February 21, 1970, the Simon and Garfunkel album “Bridge Over Troubled Water” hit number 1 on the UK charts and stayed in the chart for 300 weeks. That is astonishing longevity in popular music. I use this day to wonder at the similar words Eloha (God in Hebrewism and the Old Testament), Ilaha (Arabic for deity) and Aloha (Hawaiian for love and welcome). The Abrahamic religions are all cousins. They should be able to live in peace. But they can’t. This leads me to the thoughts of Hawaii's Tulsi Gabbard: "When a person thinks, I...