Ukraine

France and Britain are leading efforts to build a multinational security force that could deploy to Ukraine as part of any future peace deal with Russia. Around 30 countries will discuss the plan at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday. … The United States will not be at the meeting.

Russia cannot accept U.S. proposals to end the war in Ukraine in their current form because they do not address problems Moscow regards as having caused the conflict, a senior Russian diplomat said, suggesting U.S.-Russia talks on the subject had stalled.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Ukraine could be placed under a form of temporary international administration to allow for elections and the signing of key accords.

The United Nations on Wednesday welcomed recent diplomatic talks involving Russia, Ukraine and the United States in Saudi Arabia, calling an agreement on freedom of navigation and security in the Black Sea a crucial step for global food security. … The humanitarian crisis in Ukraine continues to worsen with nearly 13 million people in need of assistance – but funds are dwindling, a top UN relief official warned ambassadors in the Security Council.

As European leaders attempt to organize a Ukraine peacekeeping mission amid a push by US President Donald Trump to clinch a cease-fire deal between Moscow and Kyiv, reports have spread that Beijing may want to play a role in maintaining the peace. 

How should we assess Trump’s peace diplomacy? And what can Europe and Ukraine do to position themselves strategically in the diplomatic battle over Ukraine’s and Europe’s future? To understand the current policy, we looked at the origins and outcomes of previous “peace negotiations” under Trump’s leadership.  

According to a White House readout of the March 19 call, Trump told Zelenskyy that US ownership of Ukraine's electrical supply and nuclear power plants "would be the best protection for that infrastructure." 

Senior military officers from countries across Europe and beyond will meet Thursday outside London to flesh out plans for an international peacekeeping force for Ukraine as details of a partial ceasefire are worked out.

The Human Rights Council on Wednesday heard gruesome testimony of torture, rape and execution of Ukrainian detainees and soldiers allegedly committed by Russian forces, as a high-level independent probe into Russia’s full-scale invasion delivered its latest mandated report in Geneva.

We know a lot about how to implement a ceasefire, as well as the factors that influence the likelihood that a ceasefire will be successful.   In the case of the Russian war on Ukraine, the US has proposed a 30-day ceasefire, with the hope that it can start a process that can end the war. Ukraine has agreed to the ceasefire, but President Putin raised questions regarding how such a ceasefire will be monitored and how breaches of the ceasefire will be managed. To help answer these questions, a good place to start is by looking at lessons from the long experience of the United Nations (UN) and others with monitoring ceasefires.