Zelensky hits back at Trump over peace plan
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In the middle of war, Ukraine's top university reimagines Russian studies
Eleven years into Russia’s war, a Ukrainian university is forging ahead with an unexpected academic pursuit: launching a Russian Studies program to study the country that had imposed itself on Ukraine.
Russian missile, drone and shelling attacks have killed at least four people in Ukraine amid U.S.-Ukraine talks in Florida.
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Some U.S. lawmakers say Ukraine-Russia peace plan appears to favor Moscow: "That is unacceptable"
Members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Congressional Ukraine Caucus criticized a reported peace plan backed by the Trump administration.
Kyiv's attacks on infrastructure propping up oil exports are "detrimental" to Kazakh relations with Kyiv, Astana's government said on Sunday, after Ukrainian seaborne drones attacked two Russian-linked oil tankers and Kazakh authorities said unmanned boats had damaged an oil terminal in the Black Sea.
The first draft of Trump’s 28-point peace plan called for an investment scheme for Ukraine’s reconstruction controlled by the U.S. but financed by $100 billion in frozen Russian assets matched by another $100 billion from the European Union — with 50% of profits sent back to Washington.
Economic and military pressures could force Russia’s hand. Its economy is strained but not enough to do that, analysts say. And President Vladimir V. Putin says Russia is winning the war.
In the call, Steve Witkoff privately coached senior Kremlin advisers on how to pitch a Ukraine peace deal to President Trump.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has given Ukraine less than a week to respond to his plan to give up land and reduce the size of its military as part of a peace agreement with Russia that would end their nearly four-year-old war. Trump's proposal ...
For the past four years, Russia has stuck by a single set of demands for ending its war in Ukraine. Now, Moscow is sitting back and reaping the fruits of its strategy, as President Trump presses a peace plan that broadly conforms with its demands.
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is meeting with European leaders on Monday, following a weekend of talks with U.S. negotiators on a plan to end the war with Russia, but there are still many points of disagreement.