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In the past week, President Donald Trump and senior Republican lawmakers have presented starkly different views of a top U.S. national security challenge: Russia, its war in Ukraine and the threat it poses to Europe and the United States.

President Donald Trump's special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner were due to meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for talks on a possible way to end the war in Ukraine.

The U.S. has been pursuing a solution to the war in Ukraine, and recently highlighted those efforts as part of its new national security strategy. Heather Conley, former deputy assistant secretary of state for European affairs during the George W.

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.

Europeans are feeling “genuine fear and distrust regarding the United States,” former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves told NBC News.

The Kremlin said on Friday that Russia and the United States were making progress in peace talks on Ukraine and that Moscow was ready to continue working with the current U.S. team.

Speaking at a press conference on Monday, Zelenskyy confirmed that an original 28-point plan presented by Washington had been pared down to 20 points following intense weekend talks between US and Ukr

Newly confirmed US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz called on Moscow to “urgently stop” expanding its war into NATO nations after the Kremlin launched drones into Poland and jets into Estonian airspace in less than two weeks. “At a time ...

Ukrainian President Zelensky meets with Pope Leo XIV and European leaders as he prepares to send the United States a revised plan to end the Russia war.

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Ukraine and its European partners will soon be ready to present the U.S. with "refined documents" on a peace plan to end the war with Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Tuesday, following days of high-stakes shuttle diplomacy.