“I believe it went very well,” Trump said on social media about the call May 19. “Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine will begin immediately ... to the peace talks, spurning ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump held a 50-minute phone call Saturday to discuss the escalating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine peace talks, Putin aide

Russia continues to reject an unconditional ceasefire says Ukraine after peace talks - The second round of peace talks between Russia and Ukraine lasted just over an hour

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Defense Minister Rustem Umerov would sit down with Russian officials at the second round of peace talks on Monday.

Ukrainian and Russian delegations met again in Istanbul on Monday to take part in the next round of U.S.-brokered peace talks.

Pete Hegseth has said that military aid to Ukraine will be cut in the Trump administration’s upcoming defence budget in the latest sign of Washington’s waning support for Kyiv’s war effort. His comments came hours before a massive Russian drone strike killed three people and injured over 60 others in the eastern city of Kharkiv.

Operation Spiderweb, the June 1 attack on Russia’s nuclear force in which Moscow detects NATO’s footprint —MI6, in particular—was an inflection point in the Ukraine conflict that could disrupt peace talks,

He is accused of being a propagandist for the Russian government and is a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Simes is a Russian-American political pundit, author and editor who served as the president and CEO of The Center for the National Interest.