Ukraine

The senior Trump allies held talks with Ukrainian opposition leader Yulia Tymoshenko, a remorselessly ambitious former prime minister, and senior members of the party of Petro Poroshenko, Zelenskyy’s immediate predecessor as president, according to three Ukrainian parliamentarians and a U.S. Republican foreign policy expert. 

The White House has asked the State and Treasury departments to draft a list of sanctions that could be eased for U.S. officials to discuss with Russian representatives in the coming days as part of the administration's broad talks with Moscow on improving diplomatic and economic relations, the sources said. 

On 24 February, the Trump administration tabled its own UN resolution on the Ukraine war to compete with the one drafted by Kyiv and its European backers. More debilitating disputes – including between the U.S. and its traditional allies – may lie ahead at the UN. 

President Donald Trump … is on the brink of clinching a deal that would give the U.S. preferential access to Ukraine’s extensive raw material reserves. But Trump might end up getting less than he bargained for. Estimates of Ukraine’s supposed mineral wealth are based on outdated Soviet-era surveys that didn’t take into account the viability or cost of developing them.

President Donald Trump … is on the brink of clinching a deal that would give the U.S. preferential access to Ukraine’s extensive raw material reserves. But Trump might end up getting less than he bargained for. Estimates of Ukraine’s supposed mineral wealth are based on outdated Soviet-era surveys that didn’t take into account the viability or cost of developing them.

The updated joint Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment commissioned by the Ukrainian Government, the World Bank Group, the European Commission and the UN, comes as Russia’s full-scale invasion enters its fourth year. It covers damage incurred since intensified conflict erupted on 24 February 2022 through to 31 December 2024.

The Kremlin has declined to confirm a statement by U.S. President Donald Trump saying Russia is ready to "accept" European troops in Ukraine as part of a peace deal, although it left room for a potential agreement. 

After U.S. President Donald Trump had lashed out at Ukraine’s leader on Wednesday, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he was preparing for a meeting on Thursday with Trump's envoy in Kyiv to work toward "a lasting peace" with Russia.

US President Donald Trump said he had a “lengthy and highly productive” call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday in which they agreed to “immediately” start negotiations to end the Ukraine war.

Council of Europe Secretary General Alain Berset has welcomed a major step forward in Brussels today towards creating a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine, within the framework of the Council of Europe. The 13th meeting of the international Core Group* of senior legal experts laid down the legal foundations of the Special Tribunal, including key elements of its statute.