Vladimir Putin

The British leader pledged ‘peace in our time’ after appeasing a tyrant – will history repeat itself?

Too many in military alliance do not feel ‌the ​urgency ‍of Russia’s threat in Europe, says Mark Rutte

The Donbas region is at the centre of US-led efforts to end Russia’s war against Ukraine

Kyiv to discuss future security guarantees with ‘coalition of the willing’ states

Russia wants a piece of Ukraine. America wants Greenland and the Panama Canal. Israel wants to a piece of Gaza, and so on

Moscow increases battlefield pressure on Ukraine as talks on US peace push intensify

Strategy declares Western Hemisphere to be Washington’s zone of influence

The optics surrounding Putin’s arrival carried unmistakable weight.

Putin and Modi meet to deepen economic ties, despite US pressure

In the News podcast: As Putin says Russia is winning the war, peace talks move to Miami with no deal in sight

Dawn Sturgess died after exposure to lethal chemical left in discarded perfume bottle

Moscow vows to seize entire Donbas region and says EU use of its frozen assets to fund Kyiv could be ‘casus belli’

Russia is a crucial counterbalance to China for India and a valuable hedge against the US

EU Commission to press ahead with plans to use Moscow’s frozen assets to provide funding to Kyiv

Putin warns his country is ready to fight Europe ‘right now’ if necessary and accuses it of blocking peace efforts

Kremlin hopes Trump’s push for peace will deliver areas of Donetsk region that could take years to conquer

Ireland to pledge an extra €100 million in non-lethal military support

Seizure of Pokrovsk would represent Russia’s most significant battlefield advance in nearly two years.

Trump’s reputation on the line if US cannot bring Russia to negotiating table, says Mykhailo Podolyak 

Agenda set to include visit to President Catherine Connolly and expected address to joint sitting of Dáil and Seanad

Putin to meet US special envoy Steve Witkoff on Tuesday

Attitudes sour over history of occupation and contemporary security pressures overshadow latest rapprochement

President is due to meet Taoiseach and may deliver an address to the Houses of the Oireachtas

Trump administration staff have ‘been in touch in varying degrees with the Russian side’, says Marco Rubio

In a normal country, Donald Trump and Steve Witkoff would be tried for treason for the way they capitulated to Kremlin demands

Russian president ‘would welcome’ Russia-US summit with Trump in Budapest

Russian drones often target evacuation teams in conflict zone that stretches for some 1,200km in country’s east

Russian president says Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff plans to visit Moscow early next week

He has been unambiguous in his instinct to exert pressure on Ukraine rather than Russia

Contacts between Kremlin aides and US envoy Steve Witkoff revealed in leaked phone transcripts

Ukraine facing tough choices over potential concessions in any peace deal with Russia

Zelenskiy willing to meet with Trump for talks on final details, Kyiv officials close to accepting framework of ceasefire deal

Recording offers insight into Steve Witkoff’s recent tactics for negotiating with Russia and genesis of latest peace proposal

Kremlin calls for talks on original plan that Kyiv presidential aide says ‘no longer exists’

Some prepare to leave Pavlohrad while others hope the front line will stabilise or peace talks will succeed

Over nearly four years of wartime leadership, analysts say the Ukrainian leader has repeatedly played weak hands wisely. A US peace plan may be his biggest test

Kyiv-friendly counterproposal for ending war omits a number of pro-Russia points

Trump says Ukraine's Zelenskiy will have to approve US-backed peace plan

Ukrainians debate whether to rebuild reservoir after the war or protect new landscape of meadows, wooded islands, lakes and streams

Volodymyr Zelenskiy says he expects to discuss the plan – which was reportedly drafted by Russian and US officials – with Trump