A Kremlin spokesman says Russia and Ukraine have no scheduled direct peace talks. The statement Thursday came nearly a week after their first face-to-face meeting since the early weeks of Moscow's invasion in 2022 and days after U.

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Ukraine will ask the EU next week to consider big new steps to isolate Moscow, including seizing Russian assets and bringing in sanctions for some buyers of Russian oil, as U.S. President Donald Trump has backed off from tightening sanctions.

European leaders are viewed as “quietly sabotaging” President Donald Trump’s efforts to negotiate a compromise end to the war in Ukraine. -While Trump’s approach is transactional and realist, focused on stopping the killing by recognizing Ukraine’s limited leverage and Russia’s need for a sellable “victory,