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

Russian officials reacted coolly to reports of progress in US-European negotiations to end Moscow's all-out war on Ukraine, as the United States reportedly offered NATO-style security guarantees for Kyiv.

U.S. administration officials signaled Monday a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine may be closer than ever.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has claimed the U.S. agrees with the Kremlin that Ukraine should hand over control of land where ethnic Russians live to Moscow. "It is good that the Americans have understood this," Lavrov told Russian television in a new interview published Tuesday, originally in Russian.

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.

President Donald Trump on Monday described an end to the war in Ukraine as closer than ever, with American officials earlier in the day suggesting beefed-up security guarantees for Kyiv had advanced the peace talks — but that the US offer would not be on the table forever.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said he is ready to give up on demands for Nato membership in exchange for security guarantees from the US and Europe, in a move aimed at advancing peace talks in Berlin on Sunday.

Kremlin spokesman says Washington not actively informing Moscow of progress in Berlin talks but expects to hear from US after conclusion of talks - Anadolu Ajansı

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,

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,