A senior Russian official says preparations have begun for a face-to-face meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Congressional Republicans have mostly tempered their criticism or deferred to the president as he topples what were once their party’s core foreign policy principles.

US President Donald Trump was right to re-establish links with Russian leader Vladimir Putin to set up peace talks to end the war in Ukraine, a senior Labour minister has said. Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson said there could be "no negotiated peace without Russia" and that Trump's approach had brought "Russians to the table".

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is under intense pressure from the United States after President Trump pushed for American access to Ukraine’s wealth of valuable minerals as part of a deal to end the war with Russia.

He said the United States wanted to recoup the billions of dollars in military aid Washington has given to Ukraine in its fight to repel Russian invaders. He said the United State

President Donald Trump and other top officials sent some mixed signals today on Ukraine, alternately castigating and cajoling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the U.S. seeks to land two major deals: first a minerals agreement with Kyiv,