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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures during a call with military leaders on the Ukraine battlefield situation at the Kremlin in Moscow, on Thursday, Dec. 11, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Kremlin official says Russian police and National Guard to stay in Ukraine’s Donbas even after peace

December 12, 2025 at 9:51 a.m.

A senior Kremlin official says that the Russian police and National Guard will remain in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas to oversee the prized industrial region, even if a peace settlement ends...

Russian President Vladimir Putin, third right, Russian Presidential foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov, fourth right, and Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Special Presidential Representative for Investment and Economic Cooperation with Foreign Countries Kirill Dmitriev, right, attend talks with U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff, second left, and Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law, third, at the Senate Palace of the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Alexander Kazakov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Russian President Vladimir Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end the war in Ukraine

December 4, 2025 at 8:49 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump has set in motion the most intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched the full-scale invasion of its neighbor nearly four years ago.

FILE – Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff shakes hands during their meeting at the Kremlin, in Moscow, on Aug. 6, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Land and security are the main sticking points as Russia and Ukraine mull Trump’s peace proposal

December 1, 2025 at 6:23 a.m.

Diplomats face an uphill battle to reconcile Russian and Ukrainian “red lines” as a renewed U.S.-led push to end the war gathers steam.

In this photo, taken on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025 and provided by Ukraine’s 127th Separate Brigade of the Territorial Defence press service, soldiers aged 18 to 24 practice military skills on a training ground near Kharkiv, Ukraine. (Anatolii Lysianskyi/Ukraine’s 127th Separate Brigade via AP)

President Donald Trump frustrated after thinking he made headway on Russia-Ukraine talks only to see Putin balk

August 22, 2025 at 4:52 p.m.

U.S. President Donald Trump started the week declaring a diplomatic breakthrough in his bid to prod Moscow and Kyiv closer to peace, announcing he had begun arranging for direct talks...

FILE – U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G-20 Summit on July 7, 2017, in Hamburg, Germany. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

What to know about the Vladimir Putin-Donald Trump summit in Alaska

August 14, 2025 at 8:48 a.m.

The U.S.-Russia summit in Alaska is happening where East meets West — quite literally — in a place familiar to both countries as a Cold War front line of missile...

Locals look at a residential house destroyed by a Russian air strike in Kramatorsk, Ukraine, on Thursday, July 31, 2025. (AP Photo/Yevhen Titov)

President Trump says he would meet with Vladimir Putin even if the Russian leader won’t meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

August 7, 2025 at 6:28 p.m.

President Donald Trump says he would meet with Vladimir Putin even if the Russian leader won’t meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

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Kremlin official says Russian police and National Guard to stay in Ukraine’s Donbas even after peace

Russian President Vladimir Putin says there are points he can’t agree to in the US proposal to end the war in Ukraine

Land and security are the main sticking points as Russia and Ukraine mull Trump’s peace proposal

President Donald Trump frustrated after thinking he made headway on Russia-Ukraine talks only to see Putin balk

What to know about the Vladimir Putin-Donald Trump summit in Alaska

President Trump says he would meet with Vladimir Putin even if the Russian leader won’t meet with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy

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Volodymyr Zelenskyy hopes for ceasefire with Russia and challenges Vladimir Putin to meet him in Turkey ‘personally’

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