Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy welcomed the possibility of Donald Trump initiating an effort to end Russia’s war, but warned against pushing for a ceasefire agreement that could easily unravel.

In an interview with French newspaper Le Parisien, Ukraine's president said they do not have the strength to retake the territories occupied by Russia. He said there is one option remaining.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has admitted that Ukraine cannot retake the territories that Russia has annexed. The Ukrainian president said that the only way that Crimea and eastern Ukraine could be brought back under Kyiv's control was via diplomacy.

Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico has claimed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has allegedly offered him a €500 million bribe from Russian assets in exchange for supporting Ukraine's NATO membership.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has admitted that Ukraine cannot overpower Russia militarily to beat it back from the territories it has annexed.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he is open to the potential deployment of Western troops in Ukraine to guarantee the country's security as part of a broad effort to end the almost three-year war with Russia.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Nato chief Mark Rutte and key European leaders in Brussels on Wednesday to strategise over Russia’s war ahead of Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

While the Al Qaida spinoffs Sharaa led in Syria carried out well-documented atrocities against rival Islamist groups and Shiite and Druze targets considered allies of the Assad regime, Sharaa’s HTS renounced the global jihad in 2017 and turned straight away to cementing control of the Assad-free areas of Idlib and planning for Assad’s overthrow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called on international allies to take decisive action against Russia's "shadow fleet"—a group of vessels used to circumvent Western sanctions by transporting oil,

The US president-elect told European officials that the bloc would have to more than double its spending target of two per cent - which over a quarter of its members currently fail to meet.