President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged Donald Trump to press China to end its support for Russia in its war against Ukraine when the US President meets his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, during a tour of Asia this week. In wide-ranging comments made to reporters that were released on October 28, the Ukrainian leader said he…
US President Donald Trump said on October 20 that attempts to reach an agreement between Russia and Ukraine to end the war are ongoing, and warned that if an agreement is not reached the consequences will be serious. “We are still in a process of making a deal [to stop the war]. If we do,…
US President Donald Trump gave no indication that the United States would provide Ukraine with long-range Tomahawk cruise missiles, saying after a meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House that the warring sides should “stop where they are” on the battlefield. Trump said on social media that Ukraine and Russia would be…
KYIV — Poland and NATO allies mobilized fighter planes and put ground forces on high alert early on October 5, as Kyiv said Russia had launched a new wave of aerial attacks across Ukraine, including on the Lviv region, near the Polish border, killing at least five people. “Polish and allied aircraft are operating in…
Ukraine urged China to pressure Vladimir Putin to move toward peace as the Russian president arrived in Beijing following his participation in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit — where he defended the war that has killed tens of thousands of people. “Given the significant geopolitical role of the People’s Republic of China, we would…
KYIV — Amid the dust, the rescue workers, and the diggers, Mykola is lucky to be alive. The five-story apartment block he called home was reduced to rubble the previous day in a Russian strike that killed 22 of his neighbors, including four children. Speaking to RFE/RL’s Current Time on August 29, he recalled being…
US President Donald Trump again played down the likelihood of a quick meeting of the Russian and Ukrainian leaders and raised the possibility of new sanctions on Moscow, although he also said the Ukrainian side is not without blame. “I want to see that [war] end,” Trump told reporters on August 26 at the White…
US President Donald Trump says he will decide his position Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine in the next two weeks and again warned that it could involve sanctions against Russia. Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office on August 22, he said he wanted to see whether Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr…
A week after US President Donald Trump laid out the red carpet for his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, not much has changed in efforts to bring an end to the fighting in Ukraine. The Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska was followed by talks with Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders in Washington that ended with a call…
US President Donald Trump described his Alaska trip as a “great and very successful day” after meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15 and holding calls with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders. However, responses in Ukraine were mixed, with some criticizing the red-carpet treatment for Putin, while others expressed cautious hope despite…