Foreign troops in Ukraine would be legitimate targets, says Putin

 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday thousands of foreign troops could be deployed to his country under post-war security guarantees, but Russian leader Vladimir Putin said Moscow would...

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Deadly war

The world has to admit that the US President Donald Trump has made sincere efforts to get warring countries to the negotiating table. But the Russian President Vladimir Putin...

Russia and Ukraine summits show Trump can push for peace

By hosting an unprecedented short-notice summit with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and key European leaders on Monday, President Donald Trump significantly raised the prospects for ending Russia’s three-and-a-half-year-long war...

Ukraine got a reprieve in Washington — not an escape

In the 1963 war movie “The Great Escape,” 76 prisoners make it out of their camp in what begins with hope and elation, but ends with all but a...

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The uncertain fallout of the Putin-Trump summit meeting

The much-hyped summit meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and United States President Donald Trump in Alaska on Saturday was not exactly a damp squib it seems to be...

President Trump and Zelensky appear closer than ever

Three days ago, it looked as if Russian President Vladimir Putin had brought Donald Trump back to his side in the three-year-old war he has fought to illegally seize...

'Meet the President'

Zelensky knows he risks another White House ambush

The free world's most celebrated president is showing some mettle in agreeing to a meeting with the leader of the free world. When Volodymyr Zelensky walks into the Oval...