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.

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.

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 ...