Vladimir Putin

Zelenskiy hails nation’s ‘heroism’ as Russia vows to fight on until aims are met

EU foreign ministers agree to impose further sanctions on Russia on third anniversary of Ukraine invasion

Taoiseach said international rules-based order was only guarantor of Irish security

Many fund managers now expect Europe to be the best-performing stock market globally this year

Trump’s opponents cower before him, and many of the country’s institutions look unfit for opposition

Moscow and Washington held their first talks on ending the war in Ukraine on Tuesday

One possible explanation of Trump’s behaviour is that he sees China as the US’s principal adversary and hopes to prise Russia away from its influence

The author is concerned about a potential three-way arms race between the US, Russia and China and a greater willingness to consider a ‘limited’ use of nuclear weapons

While most of them will long for the war to end, Ukrainians will be right to fear betrayal

Residents of the town that suffered attacks on civilians are alarmed by the US president’s warm words for Moscow

Analysis: Russian economy is under strain but all US demands are aimed at Kyiv

President dismisses Kyiv’s concerns about being excluded from US-Russia talks held in Riyadh

Kyiv warns against ‘ultimatums’ as US and Russia relaunch contacts with talks in Saudi Arabia

Here in Ireland, the government is expected to propose €50m in non-lethal aid for Ukraine

Emergency summit of European leaders comes at same time US and Russia meet in Saudi Arabia

Trump officials' meeting with Russians in Riyadh set for Tuesday

The war’s end was never likely to affirm justice and international law; this will be an ugly peace

European leaders to hold an emergency summit on Ukraine on Monday in Paris

Steady queue of people brave freezing temperatures and possible arrest in Moscow

Trump’s glowering mugshot even hangs outside the Oval, like an Old West 'Wanted: dead or alive' poster

Keith Kellogg says previous peace talks failed because too many countries involved in process

US vice-president JD Vance says European leaders ‘running in fear of your own voters’

No radiation leak as Kyiv says attack shows Kremlin has no desire for peace

Air strikes and artillery battles shake Mezhova as Russia grinds towards Dnipropetrovsk region

Kyiv says it will reject any Trump-Putin peace deal sealed without its input

Former defence secretary Ben Wallace warns against US-led ‘appeasement’ of Russia

Analysis: Washington’s intervention has boosted Russia’s hopes of achieving two key goals of its invasion

Nato head says any peace deal in Ukraine must be enduring, any talks must include Kyiv

US president is proving capable of shredding the rules-based world order and replacing it with a gangland ethos in the Putin mould

US president restates demand for Ukraine’s rare earth minerals

Donald Trump says he has spoken to Vladimir Putin about ending war in Ukraine

Kyiv believes Moscow behind deadly blasts at army draft offices around Ukraine

Russian missile strike on apartment block in Poltava kills at least seven and injures 14 including three children, say emergency services

In the second column in a monthly series, the 29-year-old commander of a Ukrainian drone unit discusses fighting on while being unable to grieve for those lost in combat and how and when the war might end

Kremlin calls Zelenskiy ‘illegitimate’ leader who could not sign any peace deal for Kyiv

Scandals, ‘leaks’, army recruitment woes and Trump fears compound concerns over trajectory of war

Rite & Reason: In an era when leaders like Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin cause havoc with their casual relationship with the truth, Aquinas offers an antidote

And where the war is felt more keenly than the winter, a thaw will be caused not by the sun’s rays, but by blast waves and heat from exploding shells and mines

Influential writers look at how the Chinese leader is moulding his country - and the West - to fit his vision

Kyiv says at least 200,000 European peacekeepers needed to oversee any ceasefire with Russia