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President Donald Trump speaks with reporters after signing executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, Wednesday, April 23, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)
Trump calls for Ukraine and Russia to meet for ‘very high level’ talks, says they are close to deal
President Donald Trump is calling for Ukraine and Russia to meet for “very high level talks,” saying they are “very close to a deal” after productive meetings.
Yesterday
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers carry out bodies of passengers after a Russian drone hit a public bus in Marhanets, Dnipropetrovsk region, Wednesday, April 23, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Trump says Zelenskyy is prolonging war in Ukraine by resisting calls to cede Crimea to Russia
President Donald Trump has again lashed out at Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Trump says Zelenskyy is prolonging the “killing field” after the Ukrainian leader pushed back on ceding Crimea to Russia as part of a potential peace plan.
April 24
Police officers calm an injured dog while a dead body lies near a multi-story building damaged by a Russian strike on a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)
Zelenskyy pushes back on ceding Ukrainian land in potential peace deal ahead of London talks
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is pushing back at the notion of ceding territory to Russia as part of any potential peace agreement.
April 23
Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking during a ceremony for the Sluzhenie All-Russian Municipal Service Awards at the Russia National Center in Moscow, Russia, Monday, April 21, 2025. (Ramil Sitdikov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russian attacks during Easter ceasefire declared by Putin killed 3 in Ukraine’s Kherson region
The head of Ukraine’s southern Kherson region says that Russian attacks during the 30-hour Easter ceasefire unilaterally declared by President Vladimir Putin over the weekend killed three people in the region.
April 21
In this photo, provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters extinguish fire following a Russian attack in Dnipro, Thursday, April 17, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Russia strikes Ukrainian city of Dnipro as Kyiv seeks security pledges in Paris
Ukrainian officials say Russian forces launched a massive drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Dnipro, killing three people, including a child. Dozens were wounded in the attack late Wednesday.
April 18
Friends come to pay last respects to the family, Maksym Martynenko, 11, Natalia Martynenko, 49, and Mykola Martynenko, 41, killed in a deadly Palm Sunday Russian attack on Sumy on April 13, during farewell ceremony in Sumy, Ukraine, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Kherson kill 1 person and wound 9
Russian glide bombs and artillery struck Kherson, in southern Ukraine, killing one and wounding nine others as Moscow forces continued daily attacks across the country.
April 17
A mother cries at the coffin of her son Herman Tripolets, 9, killed by a Russian missile, during a funeral ceremony in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Monday, April 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
‘Little suns in the classroom’: Ukrainian city mourns children killed by Russian missile
Anger and outrage have gripped the hometown of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as it held funerals for some of the 20 people, including nine children, killed by a Russian missile that tore through apartment buildings and blasted a playground.
April 7
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, a car burns following a Russian missile attack that killed more than a dozen people, including children, in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine, Friday, April 4, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Officials say a Russian strike in central Ukraine kills 14 people, including six children
Ukrainian officials say that a Russian missile strike Friday on the central city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least 14 people, including six children, and injured more than 50.
April 4
Ukrainian servicemen fix a bomb on a Vampire attack drone, on the front line near Chasiv Yar, Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, March 31, 2025, (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)
Germany sees Ukraine truce efforts as deadlocked, while China says the talks are encouraging
Germany’s chief diplomat is describing U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to secure a truce in the three-year war between Russia and Ukraine as deadlocked.
April 2
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of breaking ceasefire terms protecting energy sites
Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of breaking the terms of a tentative U.S-brokered deal to pause strikes on energy infrastructure, underscoring the challenges to negotiating a broader peace in the war in Ukraine.
March 26
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following a Russian attack in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Monday, March 24, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
US holds separate talks with Russians after meeting Ukrainians to discuss a potential ceasefire
U.S. negotiators are working with Russian representatives on a proposed partial ceasefire in Ukraine. Monday’s meeting in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, came a day after the U.S. held separate talks with the Ukrainian team.
March 25
Russian drones strike Ukrainian city of Odesa, underlining challenges for even limited truce
Russian drones have pummeled the Ukrainian Black Sea port city of Odesa, injuring three people and sparking fires.
March 21
Actress Ruslana Ostapko, wearing a painted moustache, cries as the talks about her male colleagues who joined the Ukrainian army and were killed in Russia-Ukraine war, in the Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Chernihiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 16, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
With most male actors at war, a small Ukrainian theater reinvents itself with an all-female cast
The Chernihiv Regional Youth Theater in Ukraine has adapted to the war by having women perform traditionally male roles, after many men left the troupe to fight on the front line.
March 8
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, firefighters put out the fire following a Russian rocket attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 7, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
Russia attacks Ukraine’s energy supplies as US cuts its access to satellite images
Ukrainian officials said Russia had targeted energy facilities with dozens of missiles and drones in a nighttime attack.
March 7
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy takes part in a plenary during the Securing our Future Summit on Ukraine and European security at Lancaster House in London, Sunday, March 2, 2025. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
Ukraine’s Zelenskyy says end of war with Russia is ‘very, very far away’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia “is still very, very far away.”
March 3
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy answers media questions during his press conference, in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, Feb. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Zelenskyy says progress made on reaching an agreement with the US on rare minerals deal
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a contentious U.S. proposal that would have seen $500 billion worth of profits from Ukrainian rare minerals given to the United States as compensation for its wartime assistance to Kyiv has been taken off the table.
February 24
U.S. Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia Keith Kellogg, right, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shake hands during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Feb. 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
US envoy praises Zelenskyy after Trump’s censure of the Ukrainian leader
President Donald Trump’s envoy to Ukraine and Russia says he’s held “extensive and positive discussions” with Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy about the three-year war.
February 22
A view of the containment vessel that protects the remains of reactor number four at the former Chernobyl nuclear power plant and built to contain radiation, after a drone attack in Chernobyl, Ukraine, Friday, Feb. 14, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
A drone pierced the outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Radiation levels are normal
A drone armed with a warhead hit the protective outer shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant. Friday’s strike punched a hole in the shell and briefly started a fire. Kyiv blamed Russia, while the Kremlin denied it was responsible. The U.N.
February 14
Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a video conference meeting with Bryansk Region Governor Alexander Bogomaz at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow Russia, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025. (Gavriil Grigorov, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
Russia rejoices at Trump-Putin call as Zelenskyy rejects talks without Ukraine present
Russian officials and state media have taken a triumphant tone after President Donald Trump jettisoned three years of U.S. policy and announced he would likely meet soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peace deal in the almost three-year-long war in Ukraine.
February 14
In this photo taken from video released by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, Russian soldiers ride atop Akatsiya self-propelled gun at an undisclosed location in eastern Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)
Ukraine looks to entice younger men into the military by offering special rewards
Ukraine’s Defense Ministry is offering new financial and other benefits it hopes will attract men in the 18 to 24 age group to military service. The ministry made the annoucement late Tuesday.
February 12
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during the briefing with President of the European Investment Bank Nadia Calvino in Kyiv, Ukraine, Monday, Feb. 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukraine and Russia trade long-range attacks as officials probe possibilities for peace
Russian forces have targeted Ukraine’s energy and gas infrastructure in a “massive” missile attack, while Ukrainian drones struck an important oil refinery inside Russia, officials said.
February 11
Britain's Foreign Secretary David Lammy is greeted by Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their meeting in Kyiv, Ukraine, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Ukraine wants partner countries to join in postwar development worth billions
Ukraine’s foreign minister says his country wants to collaborate with partner countries on postwar projects worth billions of dollars not just in mining rare earth elements, but also in energy and construction sectors.
February 6
Ukraine strikes a major Russian oil refinery for a second time in 3 days, an official says
A senior official claims that Ukrainian long-range drones have struck one of Russia’s biggest oil refineries for the second time in three days.
February 3
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
Takeaways from the AP interview with Ukraine’s Zelenskyy
The Associated Press interviewed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at a crucial juncture of the nearly three-year war against Russia’s full-scale invasion. U.S.
February 1
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gestures as he speaks during an interview with The Associated Press in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
AP Interview: Zelenskyy says excluding Ukraine from US-Russia talks about war is ‘very dangerous’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says that excluding his country from talks between the U.S. and Russia about the war in Ukraine would be “very dangerous.”
February 1
Ukrainian servicemen collect damaged ammunition on the road at the front line near Chasiv Yar town, in Donetsk region, Ukraine, Ukraine, Friday, Jan. 10, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanised Brigade via AP)
Russia claims another Ukrainian village has fallen as it closes in on a key city
Russia is claiming it has captured another village in its relentless offensive in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region and as it closes in on the critical Ukrainian logistics hub of Pokrovsk after almost three years of war.
January 31
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, rescuers search for civilians who were killed when a Russian drone hit an apartment building in Sumy, Ukraine, Thursday, Jan. 30, 2025. (Ukrainian Emergency Service via AP)
A Russian drone strikes an apartment building in Ukraine, killing at least 6
Officials say a Russian drone has blasted a hole in an apartment building in northeastern Ukraine during a nighttime attack that killed at least six people and wounded nine others.
January 30
Dead bodies of people killed in a Russian airstrike are seen at a tram station in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Wednesday Jan. 8, 2025. (AP Photo/Oleg Movchaniuk)
A Russian missile attack in southern Ukraine has killed at least 13 civilians, officials say
January 9
People attend the funeral ceremony of neurobiologist Ihor Zyma and his wife, biologist Olesia Sokur, who were killed by a Russian strike on Jan. 1, in Kyiv Monday, Jan. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)
Russia claims it captured another town in eastern Ukraine but Kyiv’s troops say the fight continues
Russia’s Defense Ministry is claiming that its troops in eastern Ukraine have captured the town of Kurakhove after a monthslong battle.
January 6
Former President Donald Trump meets with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Trump Tower, Friday, Sept. 27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
Trump’s strength and unpredictability can help end the war in Ukraine, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is “strong and unpredictable” and those qualities can be a decisive factor in his policy approach to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
January 3
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