ISTANBUL − Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's president said his defence minister would head up Kyiv's team.

A Queensland tradie feared dead after fighting for Ukraine told his family he was overseas studying in Germany when he had returned to the frontline, according to his final messages sent before he went missing.

Deputy special envoy to the Middle East Morgan Ortagus discusses U.S. nuclear talks with Iran and attempts to secure peace between Russia and Ukraine on ‘The Will Cain Show.’

There was no bullying."Now she says the atmosphere at the school – and in Poland overall – has changed."Two weeks ago, she came home and said "One boy said to me today, 'Go back to Ukraine'." Svitlana was astonished.

Last weekend saw a flurry of diplomatic activity surrounding the war in Ukraine. First, European leaders assembled in Kyiv on Saturday with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in a show of unity to put pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin for a ceasefire.

ISTANBUL (Reuters) -Who are Russia and Ukraine sending to the first direct diplomatic talks between the two warring countries since the spring of 2022? Just over an hour before Moscow's midnight on May 14,

Pope Leo's inauguration ceremony will offer yet another opportunity for U.S. and Ukrainian leaders to negotiate peace.

President Donald Trump offered another glimpse of an emerging, sometimes contradictory foreign policy doctrine: trying to end various conflicts around the globe while vowing not to withdraw from the world entirely.