Ukraine’s entry into NATO remains highly unlikely in the near term due to substantial political, military, and legal bar

Kyiv has now expressed readiness to drop its bid to join the NATO military alliance if the U.S. and other Western nations give it similar security guarantees.

The United States, Ukraine and major European countries have reached consensus on 90 percent of terms for a deal to end Ukraine’s war with Russia, two senior U.S. officials said Monday, but they added questions of territorial control have yet to be resolved.

Ukraine claimed it carried out an underwater drone strike on Dec. 15, the first such attack in maritime warfare, that critically damaged a Russian Kilo-class attack submarine at the Russian port of Novorossiysk,

Ukraine's internal security agency said the attack damaged and disabled a Russian Kilo-class submarine in the port city of Novorossiysk.

In a major shift for Ukraine, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has offered to drop his country’s bid to join NATO, as part of a compromise to end the war with Russia. Instead, Mr Zelenskyy wants security guarantees from the US,

By Andreas Rinke and Tom Balmforth BERLIN, Dec 15 (Reuters) - U.S. negotiators have told Ukraine during peace talks in Berlin that it must agree to withdraw its forces from the eastern Donetsk region as part of any deal to end the nearly four-year-old war,