UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has made clear that he wants a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine by August 8, the United States told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. “Both Russia and Ukraine must negotiate a ...

Ukrainian officials say at least 19,500 children remain unaccounted for, but the actual number could be far higher.

President Donald Trump’s foreign envoy Steve Witkoff — one of three American participants in Friday’s summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — described on Sunday several major agreements reached during the Alaska talks that he said created strong momentum toward a peace agreement with Ukraine.

After Donald Trump’s summit with Vladimir Putin, the contours of a possible peace deal between Russia and Ukraine are beginning to emerge. They make for grim reading. Ukraine will be asked to hand over significant areas of land it currently holds in Donetsk,

U.S. President Trump and Russian President Putin will meet in Alaska to discuss the Ukraine war, but Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will not be present.

Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.

After Russia seized 46,000 square miles of Ukraine in the first five weeks of the war, Ukraine retook roughly 20,000 of those, and Russia has since struggled to make any territorial gains, currently occupying less than 28,000 square miles, or 12% of Ukraine, not including Crimea.

The Russian president made the demand during Friday's meeting with President Trump in Alaska, according to sources involved in the talks. We speak to Dmitry Polyanskiy, Russia's First Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations.