May 28, 2025 - 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 and lift a chunk of sanctions on Russia.

3 weeks ago - Any pursuit of peace in Ukraine must take into account Putin’s strong disincentives to willingly end the war and in fact acknowledge that he has many reasons for wanting the war to continue. Putin will be reluctant to recall Russian troops from the front lines even under a peace plan that significantly favors Moscow’s demands, something that the United States must recognize.

2 weeks ago - 2025 starts with a relatively low ... the number rises in February, when Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin talked directly for the first time about ending the war in Ukraine....

September 3, 2025 - Putin, whose economy is showing signs of strain after being hit with sweeping Western sanctions, said he would prefer to end the war diplomatically, "by peaceful means", if possible. Russia claims to have annexed four Ukrainian regions, a claim Kyiv and most Western countries reject as an illegal land grab backed by a colonial-style war of conquest.

4 days ago - What followed was nearly a year of on-again, off-again negotiations, apportioning of territory, administration infighting and a war still without end. This is the story of how it unfolded. As President Trump sought a peace deal and Vladimir V. Putin sought victory, factions in the White House and Pentagon bled the Ukrainian war effort.

3 weeks ago - Beyond regime survival, the conflict also serves as a powerful tool for social control and a massive source of wealth for Russia’s oligarchs and elites. One of Ukraine’s top presidential advisors has said it bluntly: Russia doesn’t want — and cannot afford — to stop the war, because doing so would threaten Putin’s regime itself.

3 weeks ago - Russian President Vladimir Putin offered no compromise on his terms for ending the war in Ukraine.

3 weeks ago - Servicemen of the 148th Separate ... Stepanov/Reuters) It is globally acknowledged that Russian President Vladimir Putin is unwilling to bring an end to the war in Ukraine right now....

August 17, 2025 - LONDON, Aug 16 (Reuters) - Russia would relinquish tiny pockets of occupied Ukraine and Kyiv would cede swathes of its eastern land which Moscow has been unable to capture, under peace proposals discussed by Russia's Vladimir Putin and Donald ...

3 weeks ago - In the latest version of the peace plan, Ukraine accepts the principle of a demilitarised zone in its eastern regions, control of which has long been a stumbling block, with the insistence that Russia make a similar pullback of forces. Details of the proposal have been sent to the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, by his envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, and a Kremlin spokesperson said Moscow was formulating its response and would not immediately comment publicly.

August 17, 2025 - Vladimir Putin speaks during a joint press conference with Donald Trump in Alaska. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS / AFP · The big, beautiful summit that could have been an email is over and Ukraine got no closer to a durable peace. If anything, the principal outcome thus far is optical: a staged return of Russia from its years-long diplomatic isolation.

3 days ago - Instead, Putin wants to destroy ... force its population into submission. Putin is not interested in ending the war that he initiated against Ukraine unless he achieves those objectives....

2 weeks ago - Today, US President Donald Trump ... plan to end the war in Ukraine. Both leaders said a deal is close to being reached, but there are still a few main sticking points, including how much territory Ukraine will hand over to Russia, and the future of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine, which is currently under Russian control. Before the Zelensky-Trump meeting, the US president held a call with Russian president Vladmir Putin...

A year into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, Russia has suffered a major strategic defeat, Ukraine has achieved a major strategic victory, and the West has demonstrated a combination of resolve, unity, and cohesion that few had expected. This, however, to paraphrase Winston Churchill, is not the beginning of the end, but the end of the beginning.

March 18, 2025 - WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald ... Vladimir Putin agreed during a lengthy call Tuesday to seek a limited ceasefire against energy and infrastructure targets in the Russia-Ukraine war, according to the White House.

December 3, 2025 - U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner had traveled to Moscow for talks with Putin and his closest aides on a draft peace plan aimed at ending the almost four-year war in Ukraine.

3 weeks ago - President Volodymyr Zelensky has told the world it must apply more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine after he said Moscow's forces had launched a "massive" overnight attack into Tuesday with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles, causing at least three deaths, including that of a little girl.

March 24, 2022 - Vladimir Putin has repeatedly stated that he regards Ukrainians as Russians and does not recognize Ukraine's right to exist. Unless he is defeated, his Ukraine invasion may deteriorate into a genocide in the heart of Europe.