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“Since the summer, European leaders have been discussing, without much progress, whether to appoint a representative to negotiate directly with Moscow on ending the war in Ukraine.”

“No solution to end the war can be found without Ukraine's involvement, Merz says German chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Tuesday that attempts by the US and Russia to end the war in Ukraine “can never find solutions without Ukraine” and said any talks must…”

“Canada has joined a coalition of countries refusing to play ice hockey teams from Russia, with prime minister Mark Carney saying Russian skaters will not be able to compete in a world junior championship next month due to the war in Ukraine.”

“However, in recent years energy demands from datacenters, an ageing grid in need of repairs, climate emergencies such as wildfires and hurricanes that further weaken the grid, and the war in Ukraine has pushed up electric bills.”

“Many in the international community perceived Hubbard’s release to be Russia’s latest maneuver to bring Trump closer to Putin’s position on the war in Ukraine.”

“His arrest came nearly two years after a federal judge sentenced a Massachusetts air national guard member to 15 years in prison in connection with his pleading guilty to leaking highly classified military documents about Russia’s war in Ukraine.”

“Kim Jong-un, its dictatorial ruler, controls a stockpile of about 50 nuclear warheads, and has been supplying troops and weapons to help Russia in its war in Ukraine.”

“The two billionaire oligarchs chummed it up and posed for cameras, then talked about the war in Ukraine and achieved no formal ceasefire and no peace agreement.”

“They drive the war in Ukraine, the drift toward conflict in the Horn of Africa, the instability around the Gulf and the Red Sea, and the standoff over Taiwan.”

“Finland’s president, Alexander Stubb, and Norway’s prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, held what they described as a “frank and substantive” phone call with Vladimir Putin about efforts to end the war in Ukraine.”

“Gerdiukov and his wife, Polina Chertushkina, came to the US from Russia to seek asylum after they faced persecution for their opposition to the war in Ukraine, Chertushkina said.”

“The section on Russia’s war in Ukraine failed to mention how it started and did not suggest that Putin should be defeated; instead it focused on how the US could help Europe and Russia mend their relationship.”

“This came as Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff met with the Russian president in St Petersburg for fresh talks on ending the war in Ukraine, amid increasingly close relations between Moscow and Washington.”

“In the same conversation, Mr Putin suggested a summit to end the war in Ukraine that would elevate Moscow and exclude Kyiv.”

“Zelenskyy also stressed that the war was continuing due to Russia’s invasion – not because Ukraine was defending itself.”

“According to the president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, for a second night in a row no warning came from Ukraine’s western allies of the incoming ballistic missiles – and so no air raid alert was issued.”

“Russia regards Japan as an “unfriendly” country because it has joined western sanctions over its war in Ukraine.”

“The European Commission president, Ursula von der Leyen, said “the Black Sea has become another front of escalation of the Russian war in Ukraine.””