Putin yet to show interest in peace, Trump envoy admits ahead of latest talks - Donald Trump says he does not know what Kremlin is doing after peace talks in Moscow yield very little

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

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.

The officials in a joint statement said they made progress on creating a security framework for postwar Ukraine and are urging Russia to commit to peace.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

“President Trump greatly appreciates his supporters and donors; however, unlike politicians of the past, he is not bought by anyone and does what’s in the best interest of the country,” Danielle Alvarez, a spokeswoman for the Trump transition, said in a statement. “Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”

The commander-in-chief of Ukraine's armed forces accused Russia of stalling peace talks to capture more land by force on the frontlines.