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.

4 days 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....

2 days ago - Putin would not end the war until he fulfilled his territorial ambitions — complete control of the four oblasts in Ukraine’s east.

1 week 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.

4 days 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...

September 3, 2025 - MOSCOW, Sept 3 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Kyiv on Wednesday there was a chance to end the war in Ukraine via negotiations "if common sense prevails", an option he said he preferred, but that he was ready to end it by force ...

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.

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

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.

1 month ago - Peace talks held between the U.S. ... 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......

1 week 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.

2 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.

1 week ago - Latest NewsRussia-Ukraine Live Updates: Pakistan, India React to Reported Attack on Putin’s Residence ... 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 ...

While many Ukrainians believe they ... Russia demand they be brought home. ... Russian President Vladimir Putin used his New Year speech to tell troops that he "believed in you and our victory" in Ukraine....

2 weeks ago - WASHINGTON/PARIS, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin has not abandoned his aims of capturing all of Ukraine and reclaiming parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire, ...

1 month ago - Ahead of a NATO Ministers of Foreign Affairs meeting on Wednesday morning, U.K. Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said that while Ukraine attempts to move toward peace, Putin seeks to “escalate war.” · “President Putin should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to come to the table and to support a just and lasting peace and the security of Europe and NATO,” said Cooper.

1 hour ago - Russia’s claim that Ukraine launched a 91-drone strike on Vladimir Putin’s personal residence has threatened to derail months of talks over a peace deal to end Moscow’s invasion.