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Trump’s glowering mugshot even hangs outside the Oval, like an Old West 'Wanted: dead or alive' poster

Ukrainian president said draft deal failed to protect his country’s interests and offered no specific security guarantees

Keith Kellogg says previous peace talks failed because too many countries involved in process

Czech president says European countries cannot be excluded from Ukraine ceasefire talks if they are to take more responsibility for security

Munich Security Conference had expected to hear Trump’s plans for ending the war in Ukraine

US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’

No radiation leak as Kyiv says attack shows Kremlin has no desire for peace

Kyiv says it will reject any Trump-Putin peace deal sealed without its input

As the war grinds on, Nato states are collaborating to train Ukrainian recruits to fly western jets. The RAF gets them first

Former defence secretary Ben Wallace warns against US-led ‘appeasement’ of Russia

Lasting peace in Ukraine requires European role in talks, leaders say

Nato head says any peace deal in Ukraine must be enduring, any talks must include Kyiv

US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

Occupied territory in Kursk region could be valuable bargaining chip in any Trump-brokered talks

Donald Trump says he has spoken to Vladimir Putin about ending war in Ukraine

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania stopped purchases of power from Russia after invasion of Ukraine

Laika Party, the story of the Soviet dog in space, is an unlikely subject for a Eurovision song

Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania cut final link with Russia in move to integrate with EU and boost security

North’s Protestants strongly favour membership of the Europe-North America military alliance in event of Irish unity

North Korean troops believed to have been withdrawn from frontline due to heavy losses

Irish wasn’t Caoimhe Ní Laighin’s first language growing up, but with the help of good teachers, the presenter made it part of her career

Russia says new Ukrainian attacks in Kursk border region repelled

Kyiv believes Moscow behind deadly blasts at army draft offices around Ukraine

Renewed international focus is coming on Ireland’s attitude to defence as Finland and Sweden join Nato

Analysis: Most EU members want to co-operate on defence, but have different ideas about what co-operation means

Public figures in the Russian Federation have called for inhumane treatment or execution of captured military

The BBC World Service is viewed as a critical British asset in the global information war

Developers seek artificial intelligence breakthrough as air, sea and land drones transform warfare

Ukraine war, growing geopolitical tensions, rise of artificial intelligence and worsening climate crisis cited as factors pushing us towards global catastrophe

Russian missile strike on apartment block in Poltava kills at least seven and injures 14 including three children, say emergency services

In the second column in a monthly series, the 29-year-old commander of a Ukrainian drone unit discusses fighting on while being unable to grieve for those lost in combat and how and when the war might end

A policy of neutrality is increasingly being questioned by EU members

Kyiv accuses Slovak PM and Romanian far-right leader of peddling Kremlin propaganda

Scandals, ‘leaks’, army recruitment woes and Trump fears compound concerns over trajectory of war

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

European stocks at historic lows as cold weather bites

And where the war is felt more keenly than the winter, a thaw will be caused not by the sun’s rays, but by blast waves and heat from exploding shells and mines

Russian-backed dictator Alexander Lukashenko to extend 31-year rule after crushing opposition

Influential writers look at how the Chinese leader is moulding his country - and the West - to fit his vision

US president tells Mette Frederiksen he is determined to take over Arctic island