Labour foreign secretary David Lammy and US Vice President JD Vance will host meeting of national security advisers on Saturday, as Trump prepares to meet Putin next week

The meeting between the two leaders will be the first US-Russia summit since 2021

Volodymyr Zelensky has warned that Ukraine will not give up land, following Donald Trump’s claim that a peace deal with Russia may involve “some swapping of territories”.

The Last Frontier state was purchased from the Russians by the U.S. for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867

Kremlin leader reportedly prone to grievance-led speeches, occasionally testing his opposite number’s patience

After Trump repeatedly vowed to end the war in 24 hours, slipping deadlines and Putin’s resistance test his patience

This toxic relationship is weird and dangerous for the West. World affairs editor Sam Kiley explains why

If the proposed bilateral talks between the US and Russia go beyond a ceasefire in Ukraine and encompass wider issues of security, that might be sufficient to convince Putin to show up – and even invite Zelensky along, too, says Mary Dejevsky

With the summit venue yet to be announced, all eyes are on where the two presidents could meet

The threat posed by North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile programs will be a key focus of the exercise

Editorial: Despite no immediate sign of a breakthrough with Moscow after special envoy Steve Witkoff’s crunch ceasefire talks, there is at least hope that the US president – increasingly resentful about the Kremlin rebuffing his overtures – could now come full circle and support Ukraine again

America contends that Suleiman Kerimov, former Russian politician, owns the yacht

Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin met for about three hours in a last-minute bid to seek a breakthrough in the three-and-a-half-year war

Steve Witkoff – the president’s international diplomatic Mr Fixit – has failed to bring peace to the Middle East or deliver on Trump’s boast that he would end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

Ukraine considers all grain produced in the four regions and Crimea - annexed by Russia in 2014 - to have been stolen by Moscow

Watch as US envoy Steve Witkoff meets with Vladimir Putin in Moscow just days ahead of a Russia-Ukraine ceasefire deadline.

New Delhi vows to continue buying Russian crude despite Donald Trump’s threat to hike tariffs

The Netherlands was the first country to contribute to the Nato Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL) initiative

Russia's move follows Trump's nuclear messaging

Trump has threatened new sanctions if Moscow does not agree to end the war by Friday

White House official says India ‘basically tied with China in purchasing Russian oil’ as Delhi defies sanctions threat

The speakers had previously been used to blast anti-North Korean propaganda across the border

Askold Krushelnycky examines how Donald Trump’s fluctuating position on the Ukraine war has encouraged Kyiv to look closer to home to produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia

Editorial: With the symbolic deployment of nuclear submarines near Russia, the US president has indicated he now understands that Moscow must not be appeased

Trump escalates his war of words with Dmitry Medvedev, who had recently warned that U.S. actions were driving the country toward direct conflict with Russia

Ukrainian authorities say a Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital, Kyiv, killed a number of people, including a 6-year-old boy, and wounded dozens of others. A large part of a nine-story residential building collapsed after it was struck.