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In this combination of file photos, President Donald Trump, left, and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, center, are seen at the Elysee Palace, Dec. 7, 2024 in Paris, and President Vladimir Putin, right, addresses a Technology Forum in Moscow, Feb. 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard, left and center, Pavel Bednyakov, right, File)

A US-led effort to end the war in Ukraine looks favorable to Russia, but mixed signals emerge

What’s emerged from the Washington-led effort to end the war in Ukraine suggests a deal that seems likely to be favorable to Russia.

President Donald Trump welcomes Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House in Washington, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Ukraine and the US have finally signed a minerals deal. What does it include?

Emergency personnel work at the site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, on Thursday, May 1, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

At least 9 dead in drone strikes after US and Ukraine sign minerals deal

President Donald Trump speaks on his first 100 days at Macomb County Community College Sports Expo Center, Tuesday, April 29, 2025, in Warren, Mich. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

The Latest: US and Ukraine sign economic deal

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and President Donald Trump, talk as they attend the funeral of Pope Francis in Vatican, Saturday, April 26, 2025.(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)

US and Ukraine sign deal giving US access to country’s valuable mineral wealth

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Zelenskyy hopes for ceasefire with Russia and challenges Putin to meet him in Turkey ‘personally’

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has challenged Russia’s President Vladimir Putin to meet him personally in Turkey on Thursday. It’s the latest move in a weekend-long exchange of proposals from both sides on the next steps in the U.S.-led peace effort.

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Rescuers work on site of a residential building destroyed by a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko, File)

More Republicans want the US to focus on ceasefires in Ukraine and Gaza, a new AP-NORC poll finds

Oksana Polischuk, 51, descendes by lift into a coal mine in Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine, Jan. 30, 2025. Polischuk, lost her husband on a war, she became an IDP in Poland. She decided to return to Ukraine and be useful for her country working on a coal mine underground. (AP Photo/Evgeniy Maloletka)

As war draws men to fight, Ukraine’s women take tough new jobs in machinery and mines

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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Friday, March 28, 2025. (AP Photo/str)

Ukraine hasn’t held elections since Russia’s full-scale invasion. Here’s why

In this photo taken from video distributed by Russian Defense Ministry Press Service on Sunday, March 30, 2025, a Russian Army 2S5 howitzer Giatsint-S fires towards Ukrainian positions in Ukraine. (Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

A Kremlin official says Russia sees efforts to end Ukraine war as a drawn-out process

Chinese official visits Moscow as Russia and Ukraine discuss Trump’s proposal to end war

President Donald Trump talks to reporters as he walks on the South Lawn of the White House, in Washington, Sunday, March 30, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Trump finds fault with both Putin and Zelenskyy as he tries to push for deal to end war in Ukraine

In this provided by Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade press service, servicemen of 3rd mechanized battalion, practice on the training ground at an undisclosed location in the east of Ukraine, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Oleg Petrasiuk/Ukraine's 24th Mechanized Brigade via AP)

Ukrainians expect Russia to launch a fresh offensive to strengthen its negotiating position

Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs the Security Council meeting via videoconference in Moscow, Russia, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Sergei Ilyin, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Putin suggests putting Ukraine under UN-sponsored external governance

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French president says not all European allies agree on a proposed force for Ukraine

French president says not all European allies agree on a proposed force for Ukraine

Officials participate to a so-called Coalition of the Willing summit at the Elysee Palace, Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

PHOTO COLLECTION: France Ukraine Coalition

French President Emmanuel Macron, second left, greets Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during arrivals for a summit on Ukraine at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, March 27, 2025 . (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

French president says not all European allies agree on a proposed force for Ukraine

French Foreign Minister Jean-Noel Barrot, left, is greeted by China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing Thursday, March 27, 2025. (Greg Baker/Pool Photo via AP)

France’s foreign minister is in China to discuss Ukraine and trade issues

Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a meeting of the supervisory board of the Movement of the First, Russian public-and-state children and youth organisation, at the Russia National Centre in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, March 26, 2025. (Vyacheslav Prokofyev, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Things to know about the limited ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine brokered by the US

France’s Macron says a proposed European force for Ukraine could ‘respond’ if attacked by Russia.

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, welcomes Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy before their meeting to prepare Thursday's gathering of the so-called "coalition of the willing" nations that are allies of Ukraine, Wednesday, March 26, 2025 at the Elysee Palace in Paris. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Macron says a proposed European force for Ukraine could ‘respond’ if attacked by Russia

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

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, right, shakes the hand of Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, left, at the State Department, Tuesday, March 25, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Rod Lamkey, Jr.)

Rubio calls on Turkey for support in seeking peace in Ukraine

Rori a lion rescued from Ukraine settles into his new forever home at The Big Cat Sanctuary, near Ashford in Kent, England, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

PHOTO COLLECTION: Britain Ukraine Lions

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy speaks during a briefing in Kyiv, Ukraine, Tuesday, March 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

US says it brokered deal to end fighting in the Black Sea in talks with Ukraine and Russia

After being rescued from Ukraine, lion sisters Amani and Lira settle into their new forever home at The Big Cat Sanctuary near Ashford in Kent, England, Thursday, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

5 lions rescued from the war in Ukraine settle into a new life in England

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Outside view of the Russian embassy in Vienna, Austria, on March 19, 2010. (AP Photo/Ronald Zak, File)

Austria says it has uncovered a Russian-steered campaign to spread disinformation about Ukraine

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

A resident watches as his neighbour cleans up the damaged apartment in a multi-storey house after a Russian night drone attack in Kyiv, Ukraine, Sunday, March 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

A Russian drone attack kills 7 in Ukraine ahead of ceasefire talks

Police officers carry the body of a person killed by a Russian drone strike in a residential neighborhood in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, Friday, March 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Kateryna Klochko)

3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite truce talks

Russian drones strike Ukrainian city of Odesa, underlining challenges for even limited truce

A man walks by Stars of David tagged on a wall in Paris, Oct. 31, 2023. (AP Photo/Michel Euler, File)

Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it

President Donald Trump, right, meets with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office at the White House, Friday, Feb. 28, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/ Mystyslav Chernov)

What’s next for the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant after it was highlighted in Ukraine-US talks