“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part ...

Gideon Rachman So I guess the danger for Ukraine is that Putin nominally agrees to a ceasefire, Trump says war is over, keeps and then breaks the ceasefire, and Trump in his way, blames the Ukrainians ...

Vladimir Putin has described initial contacts with the Trump administration as “inspiring a certain degree of hope”, his most positive remarks since US-Russia talks began on ending the war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has rejected a US bid to take ownership of around 50 per cent of the rights to his country’s rare earth minerals and is trying to negotiate a better deal, ...

Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US ...

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But before the presidents can talk peace, they may need to agree on a ceasefire in their own war of words. Shots were first fired when Trump last week called the Ukrainian president a “dictator ...

Ukraine has large deposits of critical minerals, including lithium, graphite, cobalt, titanium and some rare earths. It also has reserves of oil, gas and coal. All of these are covered by the ...

Gideon tests the mood in Kiev three years after the Russian invasion as the Trump presidency upends previous tenets of international politics. He talks to Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and Oleksandr ...

Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and justice minister who has led the negotiations, told the Financial Times on Tuesday. A Ukrainian official with knowledge of the matter said president Volodymyr ...