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Senior Ukrainian officials are to meet Donald Trump’s negotiating team in Florida on Sunday, starting what could be a pivotal week of diplomacy in a US push to…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is stepping up global efforts to thrash out a peace agreement, sending a negotiating team to the United States and planning a trip to Paris himself as his government battles a corruption scandal and intensified Russian air attacks.
Zelenskyy on November 29…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to discuss peace terms again after an uproar over a 28-point proposal drafted with Russian input.
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The owner of a major Chinese drone parts supplier has taken a stake in one of Russia’s leading drone companies, highlighting a deepening relationship between Moscow and Beijing’s military-industrial complexes.
A company filing, made in September and seen by the Financial Times, listed Wang…
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Serhiy Akhmetov wanted to start a business making educational toys for children.
Instead, he spent more than 3 1/2 years locked up in a series of facilities in Russia and Belarus after Russian soldiers swept through his town indiscriminately arresting people — and is now trying to rebuild his…
For 3 1/2 years, Bucha resident Serhiy Akhmetov was held in Russian captivity at various locations. He was detained in the Ukrainian city in March 2022 while trying to evacuate through a “green corridor.”
This is his story of captivity, how he learned in a penal colony about Ukrainian…
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Andriy Yermak had ensured internal discipline in Ukraine’s wartime politics. He also led the country’s peace negotiations, which now must go on without him.