"The president (Donald Trump – ed.) is very, very consistent in what he wants, which is to stop the killing and bring peace to the region," he said. “That is his top international priority, but he wants a peace that is just.

U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he had asked the Defense Department to continue its surge of weapons deliveries to Ukraine, after condemning Russia's Christmas Day attack on Ukraine's energy system and some of its cities.

"Ukraine was brutally attacked on Christmas Day," said Keith Kellogg, President-elect Donald Trump's pick for Ukraine and Russia envoy.

The Russian suggests his price for peace is Kyiv’s defeat and U.S. humiliation.

Whatever hypothetical deal is negotiated between Ukraine and Russia, the Europeans won't be able to avoid playing a major role enforcing it.

In a worrying sign for Ukraine, the incoming Trump administration has signaled its disapproval of some of its recent attacks on Russian soil.

But the scope and scale of that devastation is apparently easily comprehended by Donald Trump, who has refused to visit the country. Speaking with reporters at Mar-a-Lago on Monday, Trump repeated several times that Ukraine had been “flattened like a ...

President-elect Donald Trump said on Monday that Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should be prepared to make a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to bring an end to the nearly three-year-old Ukraine war.

Separately, FM says Russia is ready to improve ties with Trump's administration if the US shows serious intentions

IGORA /Leningrad Region/, December 26. /TASS/. US President Joe Biden offered Russia’s leader Vladimir Putin back in 2021 to postpone Ukraine's admission to NATO by 10-15 years.