Ukraine’s double agony — Putin and now Trump
The country is torn over whether it could keep fighting without American support. Alec Russell reports from Kyiv on the stresses of a nation under siege ...
Ukraine agrees minerals deal with US
“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part ...
Transcript: Ukraine weathers new geopolitical climate
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 hopeful after US talks on Ukraine ceasefire
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.
Trump-Zelenskyy meeting live: UK PM Keir Starmer expresses support for Ukraine after calls to Trump and Zelenskyy
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy comes after the White House has begun handpicking the reporters covering the president, a break from decades of ...
Donald Trump signals Ukraine to blame for war
Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US ...
Ukraine rejects Trump bid to take rights to half its mineral reserves
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, ...
Economic partnership will protect the Ukrainian people and the US taxpayer
The writer is US Treasury secretary. While much has been reported about the economic partnership that President Donald Trump ...
The Russian over-50s fighting and dying in Ukraine
Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Yuri Bushkovsky was born not long after ...
China’s partnership with Russia needs to have limits
China enjoys a close relationship with Russia. Weeks prior to Vladimir Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the two reaffirmed the “no limits” partnership first mentioned by Beijing in 2021. Nato ...
What are the terms of the US-Ukraine minerals deal?
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 ...
Ukraine weathers new geopolitical climate
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 ...