In Istanbul, the first direct talks in three years between Ukraine and Russia on ending the war have concluded. The parties ...

The meeting between a delegation from Kyiv and Moscow capped off a week of diplomacy that saw world leaders descend on Turkey ...

While the US president projected optimism after the two-hour discussion, there was little evidence from his Russian ...

The first direct Russia-Ukraine negotiations since 2022 have ended: Kiev denounces unacceptable territorial demands, but in ...

Meetings between Ukrainian and Russian delegations did get underway in Istanbul Friday, though Putin sent a lower-level delegation. This prompted accusations from Ukraine and its European partners ...

Russia and Ukraine agreed a large-scale prisoner exchange ... Speaking at a European summit in Albania, the Ukrainian leader urged a “strong reaction” from the world if the talks failed ...

Nine international cultural figures demand that Russia be excluded from the The International Council of Museums (ICOM — ...

Trump boasted that Russia ... reaction. Taken together, the news was hardly encouraging: In the wake of a key diplomatic opportunity, Trump backed off his own goal of an immediate ceasefire in ...

our international correspondent in Istanbul. The two sides did agree to swap 1,000 prisoners-of-war each. Ukraine says their next goal is for Russian President Putin to meet directly with Zelensky ...

Russia is demanding Ukraine withdraw all troops for a ceasefire, a move Kyiv calls unrealistic. This live blog is now closed.