Vladimir Putin has described initial contacts with the Trump administration as “inspiring a certain degree of hope”, his most positive remarks since US-Russia talks began on ending the war in Ukraine.

“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part ...

Gideon Rachman So I guess the danger for Ukraine is that Putin nominally agrees to a ceasefire, Trump says war is over, keeps and then breaks the ceasefire, and Trump in his way, blames the Ukrainians ...

The UK premier will warn Trump that peace in Ukraine can’t be secured unless the US offers back-up for any European peacekeeping force. However, yesterday, Trump said at his first cabinet meeting that ...

US President Donald Trump greeted his British counterpart Sir Keir Starmer at the White House on Thursday, ahead of bilateral talks between the two leaders over the future of Ukraine.

Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US ...

The conflict in Ukraine has been an ever-present item ... arrive in Washington since the inauguration. Macron told the Financial Times that Trump’s return was an “electroshock” for Europe ...

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Yuri Bushkovsky was born not long after ...

The writer is US Treasury secretary. While much has been reported about the economic partnership that President Donald Trump ...

US national security adviser Mike Waltz has said Ukraine will sign a critical minerals deal with Washington in “the very short term”, even as Kyiv says several key points must still be agreed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US bid to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country’s rare earth minerals and is trying to negotiate a better deal, ...

Gideon tests the mood in Kiev three years after the Russian invasion as the Trump presidency upends previous tenets of international politics. He talks to Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and Oleksandr ...