The plan also required Ukraine to amend its constitution to commit to not joining NATO and for the alliance to adopt a statute barring Ukraine from future membership. Ukraine and European allies largely pushed back against the original draft.

He said partnering with Ukraine on drones is “under active consideration at the Department of National Defence.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is spearheading an effort to draft security guarantees for Ukraine, according to retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, the U.S. special representative for Ukraine and Russia.

Firefighters work to extinguish a fire at a fuel storage facility in Lviv, Ukraine, on March 27, 2022.

Szijjártó and other Hungarian leaders have repeatedly criticized the West's support for Ukraine in its fight with Russia.

Ukraine then proposed its own open-ended ceasefire starting at midnight on May 5 and ‌urged Russia to reciprocate.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has described the American negotiations as helpful, though he said Ukraine is at a difficult point in evaluating the proposal.

The funding will allow Ukraine to buy “critical military capabilities” sourced from NATO’s prioritized list of equipment, according to Carney's office.

The Kremlin said that Russian President Vladimir Putin had accepted some, but not all, of the United States' proposals to end the war in Ukraine on Dec. 3.

However, since then, the talks between the United States and Ukraine in Florida have taken place.

And I know Ukraine would like to see it [end].” “I think there’s a good chance we can make a deal,” Trump added.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Jan. 20 said that the United States was the only Western country ready to address what he called the "root causes" of the war in Ukraine.

Ukraine is launching a new offensive into Russia’s Kursk region as it struggles to fend off Moscow’s advances in its own southeastern territories.

How Has Ukraine Responded? "Now is one of the most difficult moments of our history. Now, the pressure on Ukraine is one of the heaviest.

Moreover, Trump’s comments about the need for European support for Ukraine are consistent with steps that he took over the summer to renew the flows of Western weapons to Ukraine.

ET on March 16 to examine nuclear power, focusing on lessons from Ukraine and concerns surrounding the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant.

On Oct. 8, 2022, Ukraine first attacked the bridge with a truck bomb, causing relatively minor damage. Putin visited the bridge on Dec. 5, 2022, after it had been repaired.

Every day, Ukraine should have results in its relations with partners." Discussing his upcoming trip to Turkey, Zelenskyy said the aim was "to reinvigorate negotiations, and we have developed solutions that we will propose to our partners."

“The war is bad for Russia, it’s bad for Ukraine, it’s bad for America,” he said. “We want the killing to stop.” The vice president made the remarks to an audience in a hangar northeast of Charlotte.

of Ukraine back in its original form," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

Neither Russia nor Ukraine has publicly released their casualty figures. Reuters contributed to this report.

Freeland said in a social media statement that she took on the post because Ukraine is "at the forefront of today's global fight for democracy."

"[Russian President Vladimir] Putin is trying to plunge Ukraine into darkness and the cold as winter approaches," British Foreign Secretary Yvette Cooper said on Nov. 12.

Russia and Ukraine have accused one another of seeking to prolong the war in Ukraine, which in February entered its fourth year.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy attends a parliament session in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 17, 2025.

The Trump administration has been pushing for a cease-fire deal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump said on Sunday that a Russia–Ukraine peace deal is now "a lot closer" but that thorny issues remain. “Some of that land has been taken,” Trump told reporters, referring to territory captured during the war.

During the quick exchange, Carney mentioned an overnight strike on Ukraine by Russia.

He thanked Trump for the talks in Saudi Arabia, adding that the pair had agreed that Ukraine and the United States should continue working together to achieve a real end to the war and lasting peace.

Vice President JD Vance said on May 19 that Russian President Vladimir Putin appears to lack a clear strategy to end the war in Ukraine.