President Donald Trump met last week with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska, and then met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and several top European leaders at the White House this week.

THE Russians overnight bombed an American factory as they launched a massive missile and drone strike on Western Ukraine. The aerial onslaught was one of the biggest attacks launched by Moscow

Pentagon officials have been meeting European counterparts with a mission to create security guarantees for Ukraine, to help end the current war with Russia and to prevent a future one.

Vladimir Putin is demanding that Ukraine give up all of the eastern Donbas region, renounce ambitions to join NATO, remain neutral and keep Western troops out of the country, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters.

President Donald Trump may recently have called for Ukraine and Russia to skip a ceasefire and hammer out a comprehensive peace agreement. But the conditions for that kind of deal don’t exist yet — and they may not for decades.

KYIV, Ukraine — Russia launched one of its biggest aerial attacks this year at Ukraine, firing 574 drones and 40 missiles, the Ukrainian Air Force said Thursday. The attack mostly targeted western regions of the country, it said. The strikes killed at least one person and injured 15 others, according to officials.

The gulf between Moscow and Kyiv’s positions remains huge, and that is crashing into the expectations set by the White House.

Kyiv’s allies urge Trump to deploy fighter jets to Romania as security guarantee - Russian foreign minister suggests China should join in ensuring Ukraine’s security guarantees, Russian news agency sa