Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

Zelenskyy will bring a cohort of European leaders to his White House meeting - the next stage of peace talks following Trump's landmark summit with Putin.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed at his summit with President Donald Trump that the United States and its European allies could offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO’s collective defense mandate as part of an eventual deal to end the war,

President Trump’s first-term ambassador to NATO, Kay Bailey Hutchison, warned on Sunday that Chinese President Xi Jinping “is watching” President Trump’s approach to negotiations between Russia

Ret. Gen. Wesley Clark discusses Vladimir Putin's proposal to Volodymyr Zelenskyy to end the war in Ukraine and President Donald Trump's plan going forward as he pushes for peace.

Hungary accused Ukraine of attacking and disabling a Russian oil pipeline that supplies the NATO ally, and firing a warning to Kyiv about its reliance on Hungarian electricity supplies.

US President Donald Trump said that his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy can decide to end the war ‘almost immediately’ as he maintained that Crimea and Nato membership are ‘off the table’

EADaily, August 18th, 2025. The United States expects Ukraine to become a major supplier of weapons to European states with an increase in their defense spending, said US Permanent Representative to NATO Matthew Whitaker in an interview with Fox News.