The White House faces the question of whether its appeasement of Russia has failed to achieve the ceasefire it promised and instead emboldened the Kremlin on the battlefield.

A Kremlin spokesman says Russia and Ukraine have no scheduled direct peace talks. The statement Thursday came nearly a week after their first face-to-face meeting since the early weeks of Moscow's invasion in 2022 and days after U.

As negotiations to end the war in Ukraine stall, the Trump administration is turning to the Middle East to fulfill the president’s vow to be a global peacemaker.

Turkey's foreign minister will travel to Kyiv on Thursday for a two-day visit after discussing peace efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine in Moscow earlier this week, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said on Wednesday.

MOSCOW - German Chancellor Friedrich Merz's recent comments on the decision to remove range restrictions on weapons for Ukraine are obstructing ongoing peace efforts, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Wednesday.

Trump has repeatedly told reporters he will decide what to do in Ukraine in two weeks, but has yet to make a final call.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged Wednesday to help Ukraine develop its own long-range missile systems.

President Vladimir Putin’s conditions for ending the war in Ukraine include a demand that Western leaders pledge in writing to stop enlarging NATO eastwards, according to reports.