The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier in the war, when Western officials

It may be recalled that in April 2022, Russia and Ukraine negotiated Security Guarantees as part of the Istanbul Agreement, the framework for a settlement. Security Guarantees or some sort of Security Assurances from a collection of countries including Russia as a neutral Security Guarantor state in Ukraine should be protected within its territory after the war.

Feb 12. 2025: Trump and Putin agree to begin negotiations on ending the Ukraine war in a phone call that ends a three-year U.S.-led effort to isolate Russia over Ukraine.

The US president says Russia's Vladimir Putin would face a "rough situation" if he doesn't co-operate in the peace process.

Trump and Putin last sat together in 2019 at a Group of 20 summit in Japan during the former’s first term. They have spoken by telephone several times since January.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, the latest development in the months-long effort by Trump to end the Ukraine war.