Rustem Umerov

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet US President Donald Trump in the United States on 22 September

French President Emmanuel Macron and US President Donald Trump agreed to act together on energy market tensions and Mideast security

U.S.-Ukraine relations, which have often been fraught during Trump's second term, are showing some recent signs of improvement

Klymenko had been considered by lawmakers the leading candidate to replace ousted Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov

Ambassador Nariman Dzhelialov told Reuters on Tuesday he hoped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy would attend the July 7-8 summit in Ankara, adding Kyiv also wants members to reaffirm support for Ukraine's strategic goal of joining the ​military alliance

The trip by Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council Secretary Rustem Umerov comes as negotiations mediated by Washington seem to have hit a wall

Umerov is the second high-ranking Ukrainian official, after foreign minister Andrii Sybiha, to travel to India following Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s trip to Kyiv in August 2024

King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden and Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard arrived in Lviv on an official visit on 17 April

Authorities in northwestern Russia’s Leningrad region announced Friday a recruitment campaign for military reservists to bolster air defenses following a recent uptick in Ukrainian drone strikes on critical oil and export infrastructure

Ukraine's Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhiy Tykhyi denied the information as "a lie," the Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported on Saturday

US-led efforts to end Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II have stalled since the United States and Israel launched joint strikes on Iran in February, prompting turmoil to erupt across the Middle East

Zelensky warns a prolonged Iran war will exhaust supplies of US air defence missiles

At least four people have died in Russian drone attacks on Saturday, while strikes on energy infrastructure knocked out power to most of the northern Ukrainian region of Chernihiv

Focused on investments in critical minerals ​and other strategic sectors, it is expected to reach $200 million by the end of the ​year

Previous rounds of U.S.-led negotiations between Russian and Ukrainian officials in Geneva and Abu Dhabi have failed to yield a compromise, including on the key sticking point of territory

Moscow unleashed an extensive drone and missile attack just hours before American officials were set to meet with Kyiv’s chief negotiator

Volodymyr Zelensky laid bare his feelings about the bust-up that happened at the White House nearly one year ago in a new interview

Chief Russian negotiator Vladimir Medinsky leaves U.S.-mediated peace talks with Ukraine in Geneva

After US and Iranian negotiators agreed on Tuesday to a set of “guiding principles” at their nuclear talks in Geneva mediated by Oman, Tehran went further — framing any eventual deal as a commercial proposition, not just a security arrangement

Talks in Geneva seek to end the four-year war, as both sides launched fresh strikes

Ukrainian defenders remain locked in a war of attrition with Russia’s bigger army along the roughly 1,250-kilometer (750-mile) front line

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy briefed US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on 14 February on the situation on the front, Russian strikes and the aftermath of attacks on Ukraine's energy system

The Republican senator’s comments contradict U.S. President Donald Trump’s position on Russia

The Iranian delegation is expected to be led by foreign minister Abbas Araghchi

Russian and Ukrainian envoys are set to engage in a new round of United States-brokered talks next week in Geneva as the war approaches the four-year mark with no apparent compromises on territory in sight

The visbreaking unit is designed to reduce the viscosity of feedstock to produce marketable fuel oil and additional light fractions such as petrol and gasoil

Kyiv recently took the politically sensitive decision to export weapons while it fights a war against Russia as it seeks funds to expand its domestic defence industry and tries to use its innovative weapons as diplomatic leverage to strengthen its alliances

Lieutenant General Vladimir Alekseev was shot six times near an apartment building in Moscow and rushed to hospital

Biden administration suspended high-level military exchanges with Russia late in 2021 as Putin amassed troops at the Ukrainian border

The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, addressed the human cost of the war, ongoing negotiations and Europe’s stance toward Russia during an interview with French public TV channel France 2 on Wednesday

Moscow pressures Zelensky to give in over Donetsk as talks continue in Abu Dhabi

A gray Israeli fighter jet flies against a pale blue cloudless sky

President Donald Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff and his son-in-law Jared Kushner led the US delegation while Ukraine was represented by Rustem Umerov and Russia by military intelligence chief Igor Kostyukov

Ukraine and Russia agreed on Saturday to hold a second round of U.S.-brokered direct peace talks next weekend after a two-day meeting in Abu Dhabi, despite Ukrainian complaints negotiations were undermined by a barrage of deadly strikes

The high-level meeting from the three countries comes a day after US President Donald Trump met with Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky in Davos and hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff held talks with Russia's Vladimir Putin

The Kremlin's top negotiator and Putin's confidant Kirill Dmitriev is to meet Trump team at Davos this week, casting doubt on the anticipated US-Ukraine agreement

Some fear it is part of a Trump administration effort to steer the effort toward American business interests

US delegation includes White House envoy Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner

While Kyiv has reported progress in negotiations, and is accelerating talks in the coming days, major questions remain unresolved about which countries will provide what kind of security for how long

Umierov also met with Kalın during the visit

Umierov also met with Kalın during the visit