In trying to end the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. must not make the disastrous mistake of misreading Putin’s real motives.

Never in U.S. history has an American president been so out of step with the American people for so long on an important foreign policy issue.

Mark Rutte's comments come a day after Putin rejected US proposals for peace in Ukraine after talks with US negotiators in Moscow.

Putin has long argued that this has posed a threat to Russia. And it was talk of Ukraine joining NATO that was at least partly used as his rationale for invasion. On the equal and opposite side, both NATO and Europe more broadly, now see Ukraine as its frontline against Russian aggression.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner in the Kremlin on Tuesday for talks on a possible way to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two.

Now almost four years into a war Russia started and with little to show for President Trump's peace efforts, Oklahoma's senior U.S. senator says, "Putin doesn’t really want peace, he wants to dominate his neighbors.

With Washington’s diplomatic channels stalled and Ukraine under growing pressure, the idea of a breakthrough now depends on whether the White House chooses to use that leverage. A leading American researcher argues that Donald Trump could offer Vladimir ...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin, presidential envoy Kirill Dmitriev and foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov attend a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow,