Trump urges an immediate end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict, warning rising casualties and stalled negotiations could spark a global crisis.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte issued a stark warning to Western allies about the reality of the threat posed by Russia, as negotiations are making slow progress to end the war in Ukraine and the U.S. pressures Kyiv to make painful compromises with the Kremlin, including on territorial concessions.

U.S. President Donald Trump has unleashed the most extensive diplomatic effort to end the fighting since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine nearly four years ago.

Konstantin Ektov, a former plumber who worked as a military policeman using barbaric tactics to round up deserters from the Ukraine frontline of Putin's war, was shot dead by a soldier he was hunting

Zelenskyy indicated the talks were hastily arranged as Kyiv officials scramble to avoid getting boxed in by U.S. President Donald Trump's demands for a swift settlement. European governments are trying to help steer the peace negotiations because they say their own security is at stake.