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Russian invasion of Ukraine

Everything you need to know about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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  • WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 26: U.S. President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting with members of his administration in the Cabinet Room of the White House on August 26, 2025 in Washington, DC. This is the seventh cabinet meeting of Trump's second term. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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    Live Updates Trump administration latest: US push for Ukraine deal stalls as tensions with Venezuela mount
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin, pictured at the talks with US envoys in Moscow on December 2, 2025, has not compromised on Russia's objectives.
    Alexander Kazakov/Reuters
    Putin sends Trump’s messengers packing, with eyes on a geopolitical win
  • Rep. elect Republican Matt Van Epps delivers his victory speech at the Millennium Hotel Maxwell House Nashville in Nashville, Tennessee on December 2, 2025.
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    5 things to know for Dec. 3: Special election, Ukraine talks, Immigration, Dell donation, Glucose monitors
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks as he visits one of the command posts of the Joint Group of the Russian Forces on December 1, 2025.
    Russian Presidential Press Service/AP
    The message behind Putin’s camouflage-clad claim of victory in a key Ukrainian city
  • Filter separators at the Gazprom PJSC Slavyanskaya compressor station, the starting point of the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, in Ust-Luga, Russia, on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2021. Nord Stream 2 is a 1,230-kilometer (764-mile) gas pipeline that will double the capacity of the existing undersea route from Russian fields to Europe -- the original Nord Stream -- which opened in 2011. Photographer: Andrey Rudakov/Bloomberg via Getty Images
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    Europe strikes a deal to phase out Russian natural gas imports by late 2027
  • In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia's President Vladimir Putin, accompanied by Kremlin economic envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, meets with US special envoy Steve Witkoff and US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 2, 2025.
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    Russia-US talks on Ukraine peace deal end without breakthrough, Putin aide says
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  • Zelensky’s top aide and key peace negotiator resigns after anti-corruption raid of his home
  • Orbán meets Putin in Moscow to shore up Hungary’s energy supplies, making use of Trump exemption
  • Zuma’s daughter quits South Africa parliament over Russia recruitment allegations
  • Analysis: Ukraine’s Zelensky faces hideous choice between bad deal and no deal
  • Putin says US plan could be ‘basis’ of a Ukraine deal but threatens to take land by force if Kyiv doesn’t withdraw
  • Ukrainian sports minister rejects idea of Russian athletes returning for Winter Olympics
  • 12-year-old Ukrainian girl dies over a week after strike on apartment building
  • Russia hands life sentences to 8 people convicted for attack on key bridge to Crimea
  • Drones have already revolutionized warfare. They’re about to do it again
  • Trump brushes off concerns about Witkoff’s interactions with Russians as leaked transcript roils Washington

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    Video Daily life grinds to a halt for Ukrainians facing blackouts and drone strikes 1:44
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    Video Trump expresses confidence in Russia-Ukraine deal following Rubio and Witkoff talks with Ukrainian officials in Florida 0:38
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky (R) and Head of the Office of the Presidency of Ukraine Andriy Yermak (L) during their meeting at the Zarzuela Palace in Madrid on November 18, 2025.
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    Video Simon Shuster analyzes corruption probe and Zelensky’s ‘blind spot’ 1:43
  • FILE PHOTO: Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak looks on, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 22, 2024. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich/File Photo
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    Video Top Zelensky adviser resigns after anti-corruption raid 1:54
  • <p>World Sports Amanda Davies catches up with Ukraine’s Sports Minister Matvii Bidnyi </p>
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    Video One-on-one with Ukraine’s Sports Minister 4:52
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    Video Leaked call ‘emphasizes how Witkoff is trying to help Russia,’ says former Ukrainian FM 12:41
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    Video Lawmaker: Transcript seems to indicate Witkoff, Trump ‘in bed’ with Russia 2:13
  • Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a joint press conference with Turkey's President following their meeting at the Presidential Complex in Ankara on November 19, 2025. Zelensky said he wants to reinvigorate frozen peace talks, which have faltered after several rounds of Russia-Ukraine talks in Istanbul this year failed to yield a breakthrough. Moscow has not agreed to a ceasefire and instead kept advancing on the front and bombarding Ukrainian cities.
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    Video US official says Ukraine agrees to deal, Zelensky says ‘much work’ ahead 3:41

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  • A Lukoil filling station in Ghent, Belgium, on Tuesday.
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    Crushed by punishing US sanctions, Russia’s Lukoil accepts offer to sell its international business
  • How hard will Trump’s ‘tremendous’ Russian oil sanctions hit Moscow? China and India may decide
  • Trump’s sanctions target Russian ‘war ATM,’ but the real test is enforcement
  • Trump’s challenge: Hurting Putin without harming Americans at the gas pump
  • Experts on how to raise the cost of war for Russia: ‘Be cleverer’

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  • President Donald Trump attends a cabinet meeting at the White House on Tuesday.
    Brian Snyder/Reuters
    Fact check: Trump delivers long list of false claims at Cabinet meeting
  • Trump turns to unconventional negotiating team heading to Russia in push for Ukraine peace deal
  • Video Trump expresses confidence in Russia-Ukraine deal following Rubio and Witkoff talks with Ukrainian officials in Florida 0:38
  • Can Trump break the vicious cycle that prolongs the war in Ukraine?
  • How Trump’s ‘drone guy’ became central to the US effort to end the Ukraine war

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