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.

Zelensky returns to the Oval Office for the first time since his blowup with Trump. This time he is bringing back up.

The protections that the US and Europe would be able to provide to Ukraine are similar to NATO's collective defense mandate.

In November 2022, I wrote an essay titled "Peace With Vladimir Putin Is A Delusion." Three years of attrition warfare later, that title states August 2025 truth. Since February 2022, Russia has likely suffered over 1 million military casualties?

General Christopher Donahue, commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa, said allies could seize Kaliningrad "in a timeframe that is unheard of."

The proposal for security guarantees for Ukraine appears to be triggering unease in Moscow, which repeated objections to any role for forces from NATO countries.

Russia is turning the parts of Ukraine it occupies into a giant military base — and a potential launch pad for future aggression. Moscow's forces in the occupied territories, particularly in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts,