"I like the concept of a ceasefire for one reason, because you'd stop killing people immediately... But we can work a deal where we're working on a peace deal while they're fighting." President Trump walked back on his previous comments where he suggested "severe consequences" for Russia if Russian President Vladimir Putin didn't agree to a ceasefire before a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other European and NATO leaders.

Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with President Donald Trump on Monday afternoon at the White House, just days after Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin left an Alaska summit without a ceasefire deal.

Russia’s illegal seizure of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine in March 2014 was quick and bloodless, and it sent Moscow’s relations with the West into a downward spiral unseen since the Cold War.

Russian state media footage shows the M113 armored personnel carrier driving into combat in the Zaporizhzhia region.

Russia has agreed to allow the United States and European allies to provide NATO-like security guarantees to Ukraine, US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff told CNN on Sunday. He said the United States was able to get Russia to agree to the US providing Ukraine with NATO-type protection as outlined in Article 5,

Kyiv ‘pushes Russian forces back’ hours after Putin asks Trump for Donetsk surrender - Kyiv's troops say they have advanced up to 1.2 miles, repelling Russian troops on the northern Sumy front

But Monday, as Trump prepares to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and a host of European leaders, his own threats to sanction Russia are looking pretty empty. The