U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have deepened expectations that progress might soon be made on ending those countries’ more than three-year war

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Kyiv’s European allies slapped new sanctions Tuesday on Moscow, a day after a phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin failed to produce a breakthrough on ending the 3-year-old war in Ukraine.

WASHINGTON - US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Tuesday he expected Russia to present a Ukraine ceasefire outline within days that will show if it is serious, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of buying time.

In a busy weekend in Washington, a key House committee narrowly passed a budget while President Donald Trump prepared for phone calls with Ukraine and Russia and warned Walmart not to raise its prices from tariffs.

(AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson) Updated [hour]:[minute] [AMPM] [timezone], [monthFull] [day], [year] WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President JD Vance said Wednesday that Russia was “asking for too much” in its initial peace offer as the United States ...

STOCKHOLM — The suffocating stench of Russian war crimes in Ukraine — now classified as crimes against humanity by a United Nations-mandated commission — seeps from mountains of reports and journalism. The effect of the findings — horrific, repetitive, exhaustively documented — is to make us emotionally numb to the scale of depravity and suffering.