Trump-Zelensky talks: 'Significant progress,' but no breakthrough

On December 28, 2025, the heads of state of the United States and Ukraine, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, met at the American president's private residence, Mar-a-Lago, in Florida. The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Reuters, Politico, and NPR reported on the meeting's outcome.

Is there a chance for peace? What did the Ukrainian and Russian delegations return with from the US?

Ukrainian and Russian delegations met with American representatives in Miami to discuss the details of a "peace plan" to end the war in Ukraine. The BBC reports on what was agreed upon and what to expect from the talks. What the Russians are saying: According to Moscow's special envoy, Kirill...

Putin met with Whitkoff and Kushner in Moscow: five hours of talks ended in nothing.

On the afternoon of December 2, Vladimir Putin held nearly five hours of talks with Steve Witkoff, Trump's special envoy, and Jared Kushner, the president's son-in-law. The topic of discussion was Washington's position on ending Russian aggression in Ukraine, The New York Times reports.

Putin is ready to 'fight to the last Ukrainian' and sees no point in signing anything with Zelensky.

Vladimir Putin announced that an American delegation will arrive in Moscow in the first half of next week to discuss the latest US proposals to end the war in Ukraine, ABC News reports. Speaking at a press conference in Bishkek on November 27 during a visit to…

Witkoff advised Russians on how best to talk to Trump about Ukraine.

In October, US Special Presidential Envoy Steve Witkoff spoke by phone with a senior Kremlin official, offering advice on how best to pitch Russia's "peace plan" to Trump, Bloomberg reports. Witkoff, who played a key role in the Gaza deal, proposed jointly developing…

Trump's 'peace plan', once finalized, could become the basis for ending the war: The US calls the Geneva talks the most productive

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio expressed cautious optimism after calling the talks between American and Ukrainian officials in Geneva "perhaps the most productive and substantive to date," CNN reports. The 28-point peace plan proposed by US President Donald Trump...

'NATO manuals no longer work': Ukrainian troops are being trained at Polish training grounds for the 'war of the past'

Since 2022, Ukrainian Armed Forces personnel have been training at training centers in European countries. Poland, in particular, has been providing its instructors and training grounds, where Ukrainian soldiers have been undergoing basic and specialized training for three years. However, many of those who have completed…

New US-Russian peace plan: Ukraine is being asked to give up territories and reduce its army.

The 28-point proposal, put forward amid the Trump administration's attempts to resume negotiations, contains demands that Kyiv has long rejected as unacceptable. The New York Times reports on the Kremlin's latest attempt to secure peace on favorable terms. The peace plan...

Residents of a village in Romania were evacuated due to a Russian drone.

Romanian authorities have ordered the evacuation of residents of the village of Plauru, on the Danube River, which forms the border with Ukraine. The evacuation began after a drone struck a vessel carrying liquefied natural gas on the Ukrainian side of the river, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty reports. In a statement published on the 17th…

Ukrainian companies helped Iran build drones that Russia uses in the war.

The US has uncovered a network supplying components for Iran's drone and missile production programs. The US Treasury Department's statement stated that the restrictive measures apply to organizations and individuals in Ukraine, Iran, the UAE, Turkey, China, Hong Kong, India, and Germany, Kyiv reports.

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