The Russian president sent his American counterpart a photograph of the two of them from their face-to-face meeting.
El presidente de EE. UU. dispone de pocas fuentes de asesoramiento independiente justo cuando intenta negociar el fin de la invasión rusa a Ucrania, quizá la negociación más delicada de su presidencia.
The North’s leader, Kim Jong-un, publicly consoled bereaved families, as well as awarding medals to soldiers returning from the force he has sent to aid Russia.
The online DeepState map, based on geolocated combat footage and tips from Ukrainian Army sources, draws 900,000 views each day and acts as a counterbalance to the military’s omissions.
President Trump has few sources of independent advice just as he is trying to broker an end to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, perhaps the trickiest negotiation of his presidency.
It was not the first time that the vice president had addressed Ukraine’s leader with words more commonly spoken to toddlers than heads of state.
German authorities said a Ukrainian man suspected of coordinating the attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines in 2022 had been taken into custody by the Italian police.
Nearly a week after President Trump’s Alaska summit, his suggestions of imminent breakthroughs have not come to pass.
The mass return of fallen soldiers is one of the few concrete results of U.S.-orchestrated truce negotiations.
The Ukrainian leader returned with a U.S. commitment to participate in security guarantees for Kyiv in a postwar settlement.
Los rusos envían pequeños grupos de soldados a pie, quienes son más difíciles de detectar. Dado que iniciaron algunas mesas de negociación, el ejército intenta ocupar la mayor cantidad de terreno posible.
The secretary of state and national security adviser will meet with European counterparts on Thursday in an effort to advance a peace process that so far has gotten little traction.
European and Ukrainian officials call the idea ludicrous, showing the large gaps in peace negotiations.
As negotiations over the war carry on, President Vladimir V. Putin is pushing hard with tactics that have evolved over three and a half years.
Todas las guerras acaban en una negociación, pero rara vez el agresor acude a la mesa exigiendo territorios que no controla.
Los dirigentes de Alemania, Francia, el Reino Unido y otros partidarios de Ucrania se han unido de forma excepcional para ayudar a influir en el presidente estadounidense.
Two decades after the Rose Revolution, the former Soviet satellite is turning away from the West and back toward Russia. What happened?
Diplomats scrambled to come up with detailed proposals for security guarantees and other sticking points following two high-level summits in Alaska and Washington.
President Trump says President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has agreed to meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine, but Mr. Putin has not confirmed.
The Kremlin is keeping its options open, but analysts said the Russian leader would probably only meet with his Ukrainian counterpart to accept a capitulation.
Trump doesn’t feel any gut need to bring Ukraine into the West or understand that Putin’s invasion of that country was just his latest march to break up the West.
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The leaders of Germany, France, Britain and other supporters of Ukraine have come together in exceptional ways to help sway the U.S. president.
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El presidente Donald Trump, el presidente de Ucrania, Volodímir Zelenski, y líderes europeos se reunieron en un esfuerzo cordial pero poco definitivo para poner fin a la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania.
President Trump had suggested a meeting between Russia and Ukraine’s leaders could be a potential next step on the path to peace. Russian state news media barely mentioned the idea.
The remarks were a considerable shift for France’s president, Emmanuel Macron, who called Moscow a potential threat for many European countries.
The Kremlin’s goal is to destabilize Europe, and attacks on infrastructure are a preferred weapon, a new report said.
Ukrainian analysts watching their president’s return to the White House were braced for a “nightmare.” They took cautious encouragement from what they saw instead.
We look at what happened during Ukraine peace talks at the White House.
The leaders dropped everything to travel to Washington to ensure President Trump didn’t force a bad deal on Ukraine. A road map for peace remains elusive.
Russia seems unlikely to agree to Western troops in Ukraine as part of any deal to end the war.
And while we’re at it, let’s think about the phrase “land swap.”
Jolted by President Trump’s support for possible land swaps in Ukraine, they went to back President Volodymyr Zelensky, a move that appeared to have accomplished its goal.
The leaders presented a relatively united front and appeared to agree on the next steps in the effort to halt the fighting between Ukraine and Russia. But much remained unresolved.
President Trump has offered only vague assurances of security guarantees for Ukraine if President Volodymyr Zelensky agrees to cut a deal with Russia.
By putting the interests of what Trump calls “peace” ahead of the interests of freedom, we are all-but guaranteeing that Ukraine will lose both.
President Trump has not committed to adding American forces to the mix in Ukraine. No one has detailed publicly what form defenses would take, but there are several options.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine was ambushed by President Trump and Vice President JD Vance in March. This time, he is bringing backup.
Para Europa, la preocupación más profunda es mantener a Estados Unidos del lado de la OTAN.
Ukrainian officials said the deadly strikes were a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities.
In Alaska, the Russian leader proposed that Ukraine hand over the remainder of the Donbas region to Moscow to stop the fighting.
The meeting was a stark reminder of a simple truth: That the real barrier between President Trump and peace in Ukraine is Vladimir Putin.
Ahead of a meeting with President Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine noted that Russia’s 2014 seizure of Ukrainian land became “a springboard for a new attack.”
Tras la cumbre del viernes, el presidente Putin volvió a insinuar que la guerra tiene que ver con el estatus disminuido de Rusia desde la caída de la Unión Soviética.
European leaders are joining a trip to Washington to make sure the trans-Atlantic alliance remains intact.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.
The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.
The president of Ukraine and his European allies are to visit the White House on Monday, after President Trump backed Russia’s plan to end the war.
The traditionally Russian-speaking area is at the heart of what the Russian president calls the “root causes” of the war, and taking it over is near the top of his list of territorial and political demands.
President Trump offered security guarantees to deter future Russian aggression. But the offer was vague, prompting Kyiv to seek clarity.
Evacuees at a shelter in eastern Ukraine reacted angrily to talk that land that has long been theirs could be given to Russia in exchange for peace.
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Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.
President Trump’s break from a strategy agreed to with European allies could give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia an edge as talks to end the fighting continue.
The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending talks on a broader peace deal.
Aunque no se anunció ningún acuerdo, el líder ruso obtuvo algunas victorias y se marchó en buenos términos con el presidente estadounidense.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will go to Washington on Monday seeking answers.
The U.S. president’s latest statements are a reversal of much of what he seemed to have agreed to with European allies this past week.
President Trump offered Sean Hannity few details of what he had discussed with President Vladimir V. Putin about Russia’s war in Ukraine, but talked up their personal connection.
President Trump came home empty-handed.
With no strategy of their own for ending the war, the continent’s leaders are anxious that President Trump will force Kyiv to accept terms that favor Russia too much.
President Trump’s failure to reach an accord on Ukraine only made his warm welcome for the Russian leader more striking.
While no deal was announced, the Russian leader secured some wins and left on good terms with the U.S. president.
Few East-West meetings have ended with less clarity than Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. What was clear, though, was that Vladimir Putin was well satisfied.
President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation over the past three years for his invasion of Ukraine. But Mr. Putin did not agree to stop the war.
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said they had made “progress” during their nearly three-hour meeting, but did not reach a cease-fire deal on the war in Ukraine.
President Trump clapped for his guest, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as he stepped foot in the United States for the first time in a decade.
The summit in Alaska between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has unleashed a wave of propaganda and disinformation from Russian state media and online conspiracy theorists.
President Trump arrived in Alaska on Friday for a meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, hoping to broker a cease-fire in the Ukraine war.
Una confrontación abrupta, un estancamiento o un primer paso hacia un alto al fuego son posibles en la cumbre en Alaska, mientras los dos líderes navegan por temas espinosos como el territorio de Ucrania.
La cumbre entre Trump y Putin se celebra en una antigua colonia rusa que Estados Unidos compró por 7,2 millones de dólares en 1867. ¿Cómo se fraguó el acuerdo y por qué su legado es importante?
The Ukrainian leader sounded off on social media before the summit in Anchorage from which he was excluded.
President Trump referred to the authoritarian ruler of Belarus, who has been isolated by the West for years, “the highly respected President.”
The two leaders are bringing some old-world approaches to bear on a 21st-century conflict.
The delegations include top diplomatic, military and economic officials, a sign that the U.S. and Russia will discuss more than the war in Ukraine.
President Trump has long admired President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Their meeting in Alaska will be at least their seventh face-to-face encounter.
Normalized economic ties between Russia and the West may be a long way off, but there’s global interest in what’s said about sanctions and tariffs.
President Trump is meeting in Alaska with President Vladimir Putin of Russia to discuss an end to the war.
A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.
Ukrainians who fled the war and settled in Alaska, where President Trump is set to meet with Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, on Friday, are keeping their expectations for the talks low.
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The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.
Russia’s president has long insisted that Ukraine will be his. But his obsession may cost Russia more than he has bargained for.
The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president.
El líder estadounidense ha acordado una reunión con el presidente ruso en Alaska, el viernes, para discutir el fin de la guerra en Ucrania.
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Después de que Trump dijera que Moscú proponía un intercambio territorial para el alto al fuego, Volodímir Zelenski se reunió con diversos líderes mundiales para mantenerse en las negociaciones.
Over recent months, the Kremlin has been trying to move the diplomatic focus away from Ukraine to bilateral issues, such as trade and strategic stability.
As he heads to Alaska for talks with President Trump, the Russian leader projects confidence that his edge on the battlefield will secure a peace deal on his terms. It’s the result of a yearslong re-engineering of his country’s military and economy.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.
For Mr. Trump, there may be few spoils of victory sweeter than the ordeal that they will soon endure.
One of the year’s most towering achievements is a documentary about Russian independent journalism being wiped out in real time.
El presidente Trump ha evitado en gran medida criticar con severidad a Vladimir Putin personalmente, a pesar de sus recientes quejas sobre la intransigencia rusa para poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania.
El nuevo reporte también omite muchas referencias anteriores a las violaciones de los derechos de las mujeres y de las personas LGBTQ en múltiples países.
Once a vague proposal for a territorial swap gained clarity, a worried President Volodymyr Zelensky worked to rally allies before Friday’s Trump-Putin summit.
President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the meeting comes with enormous stakes.
President Trump struck a remarkably unconcerned tone when asked to address the horrors of war, raising questions about whether he has the leverage to convince Vladimir V. Putin to agree to end the invasion in Ukraine.
Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Trump started acting like it.
Hay algo que al presidente de Rusia le importa más que el dinero.
En 1945, el mapa de Europa se redibujó en Yalta sin la participación de los países afectados. Ucrania y Europa temen que la situación se repita en Alaska.
President Trump has largely held back from harsh criticism of Vladimir V. Putin personally, despite recent complaints about Russian intransigence in ending the war in Ukraine.
In 1945, the map of Europe was redrawn in Yalta without input from the affected countries. Ukraine and Europe fear a repeat in Alaska.
There is something Putin cares about more than money.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and several allies will host the president for a video call, the latest in a summer-long effort to hold ranks in supporting Ukraine.
The American and Russian presidents will meet face to face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, according to a White House official.
A collection of U.S. reports on human rights offenses trimmed or omitted past language on violations in El Salvador, Hungary, Saudi Arabia, the U.A.E. and Israel, all seen as partners by President Trump.
The meeting is a bad idea, but there’s an opportunity for Trump to punish Putin’s thievery.
El presidente de EE. UU. insistió en que estaba dispuesto a abandonar las conversaciones y dejar que las dos partes siguieran luchando si no se llegaba a un acuerdo.
The U.S. president is pushing to end the war in Ukraine, but analysts say the Russian leader could turn a hastily planned meeting to his advantage.
Russian forces have moved several miles into Ukrainian-held territory in the east, threatening to outflank Ukraine’s positions.
As President Trump talks of land swaps, Ukrainians find it difficult to imagine giving up the Donbas, for military, humanitarian and political reasons.
El presidente de EE. UU. ha amenazado con imponer más aranceles a Rusia y a sus socios comerciales y ha impuesto otros más severos a India y Brasil para tratar de influir en asuntos bélicos y políticos.
Ucrania teme que el Kremlin intente convencer al presidente Trump en las conversaciones ruso-estadounidenses en Alaska de que Ucrania, y no Rusia, es el obstáculo para la paz.
Russia has repeatedly targeted soldiers assembled at military academies, barracks and parade grounds.
President Trump set a low bar for his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, saying he was ready to walk away if no deal was forthcoming.
The president has threatened more tariffs on Russia and its trading partners and has imposed harsh ones on India and Brazil to try to sway matters of war and politics.
The tanker, the Eagle S, was detained last December.
Ukraine fears that the Kremlin will try to convince President Trump at U.S.-Russian talks in Alaska that Ukraine, not Russia, is the obstacle to peace.
Desde que el presidente Donald Trump retomó el poder, muchos ucranianos temen que se alcance un acuerdo de paz sin ellos.
En una época pesimista, un alto al fuego temporal se ha convertido en lo máximo que se intenta conseguir.
Para el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, es una oportunidad no solo de poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania según sus términos, sino también de dividir la alianza de seguridad occidental.
Washington’s push to negotiate an end to the war has raised concerns the Trump administration will make concessions to Moscow that Kyiv cannot accept.
Showing an uncanny ability to adapt to circumstances, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has turned himself into a key engineer of President Vladimir V. Putin’s autocratic machine.
Dmitri N. Kozak, who has said privately that the invasion was a mistake, has lost power to another senior Putin ally, Sergei V. Kiriyenko, who has embraced the military action.
For three years, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has handled the political aspects of the war in Ukraine, rising among a cadre of skilled managers who oversee the sprawling Russian state.
Since President Trump retook office, many Ukrainians have worried a peace accord would be struck without them.
For President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, it is an opportunity not just to end the Ukraine war on his terms but to split apart the Western security alliance.
Ukraine and its allies are concerned that President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin will do a deal without them and then impose it on Kyiv.
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Assaults on Ukraine have been intensifying even as President Trump has threatened new sanctions on Moscow, and now is preparing to meet with Russia’s leader.
The Ukrainian president’s blunt comments risk angering Mr. Trump, who has made a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia one of his signature foreign policy goals.
The American leader has agreed to a meeting with the Russian president in Alaska next Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Mr. Trump also suggested that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would include “some swapping of territories,” signaling that the U.S. may join Russia in trying to compel Ukraine to cede land.
“Here on the ground, we don’t feel any real changes from all these high-level meetings and statements,” a soldier said.
The Russian economy was slowing even before President Trump’s latest threats. But the Kremlin has enough money to keep fighting in Ukraine.
In a pessimistic era, a temporary, tenuous pause to fighting has become the most anyone is trying to achieve.
Analistas, y personas que lo conocen, han dicho que el objetivo primordial de Putin es un acuerdo de paz que logre sus objetivos geopolíticos, y no necesariamente conquistar una determinada cantidad de territorio en el campo de batalla.
Despite longing for an end to Russia’s invasion, few believe that a meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin is likely to deliver a peace plan they can accept.
The Russian leader sees direct talks with Trump as essential to achieving his ultimate aims in Ukraine.
Veronika Osintseva’s story has captivated a war-weary Ukraine.
A summit between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin would come as the United States has urged Russia to agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine or face new sanctions.
Prosecuting torture is a legal obligation, not a diplomatic nicety or something that can be negotiated.