Putin rejects Trump's Vatican peace talks proposal for Russia-Ukraine, suggesting Geneva instead. Trump condemns Putin's drone strikes as 'crazy' on social media.

Moscow says US prisoner-swap agreed after Trump hits out at ‘crazy’ Putin - Moscow claimed the diplomatic development after Trump branded Putin ‘absolutely crazy’ for a record-breaking drone attack on Ukraine,

When President Donald Trump spoke last week by telephone with Vladimir Putin, the Russian leader committed to drafting and sending what he described as a “memorandum of peace” in the coming days laying out Russian requirements for a ceasefire with Ukraine,

U.S. President Donald Trump is weighing new sanctions on Russia after a deadly weekend of missile and drone strikes across Ukraine, as Moscow delays delivering a promised peace proposal. During a phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on May 19,

The president, who ran on a campaign pledge of ending the war within 24 hours, has failed to move the needle on the three-year war.

Russia rebukes Trump’s “absolutely crazy” Putin comment, blaming his “emotional overload” after major Ukraine air assault.

White House special envoy to Ukraine Keith Kellogg argued on Tuesday that President Donald Trump is the “only guy” who can bring peace between Russia and Ukraine, suggesting bringing an end to the war comes down to “negotiation.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again appealed to the U.S. to apply more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin in pursuit of peace talks to end Moscow's 3-year-old invasion of its neighbor -- and as massed long-range drone strikes continued.

The ratcheting up of the conflict came as President Donald Trump, who spoke to Putin a week ago, has increasingly been sending signals that he wants to disengage from the negotiations between Moscow and Kyiv.