A timeline of Trump’s quotes, shifts and U-turns on Russia and Ukraine

09/12/2025 14:28 Washington Post

In his second term, the president has oscillated between condemning Russia and threatening sanctions to berating Ukraine and pressuring it to give up its land.

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U.S. offers Ukraine security guarantee in bid to strike peace deal

Ukrainian leaders said Monday they appreciated White House efforts to reach a deal even as significant gaps appeared to remain between the sides....

16/12/2025 00:22 Washington Post

Rising tensions with Israel have Lebanon fearing return to all-out war

Israel accuses Hezbollah of refusing to disarm. Lebanese officials hope their efforts to rein in the militant group will head off Israeli military escalation....

15/12/2025 10:00 Washington Post

As peace talks grind on, Russia zeroes in on Ukraine’s power

Every winter Russia targets Ukraine’s energy sector, but this year the attacks are fiercer, and the power outages are worse than ever....

15/12/2025 10:00 Washington Post

When asked by reporters whether he had failed to heed Jewish Australians’ warnings of the...

14/12/2025 22:25 Washington Post

With an army of yes-men, how Putin’s world turned into an echo chamber

The Russian president has little incentive to compromise in the ongoing peace talks because everyone around him keeps reassuring him that Russia is winning....

13/12/2025 10:00 Washington Post

Secret meetings between FBI and Ukraine negotiator spark concern

FBI Director Kash Patel and his deputy, Dan Bongino, have met with Ukraine’s top delegate amid a U.S. pressure campaign on Kyiv to trade land for peace....

12/12/2025 15:05 Washington Post

Distrust of Trump, fear of China propel new political force in Taiwan

The Kuomintang party’s new leader, Cheng Li-wun, is pushing much closer ties with China, reflecting growing fears Washington would not help in a war over Taiwan....

12/12/2025 08:00 Washington Post

Russia blocks Roblox game site, and the kids aren’t alright with that

After the latest restriction on the internet, officials describe receiving “many” letters from children wanting access to the game-creation platform restored....

11/12/2025 10:00 Washington Post

How Trump’s Venezuela threats echo CIA-backed regime change in Latin America

The escalation targeting President Nicolás Maduro revives a Cold War playbook that had severe and lasting consequences for Latin American democracies and economies....

11/12/2025 03:00 Washington Post

After Trump criticism, Zelensky says he’s ready to hold elections

The Ukrainian leader has argued elections in wartime are impossible. But with U.S. and European help, he said Tuesday, a vote could be held within three months....

10/12/2025 09:34 Washington Post

The horrors of El Fashir echo Sudan’s genocidal past

The civil war in Sudan has spawned the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. The region is still grappling with past traumas....

10/12/2025 05:00 Washington Post

Trump’s team sees Europe’s ‘erasure.’ Europeans see a hostile U.S.

Relations between the U.S. and Europe hit a low point as President Donald Trump’s security strategy slams Europe but largely ignores threats from Russia and China....

09/12/2025 12:03 Washington Post

How Jared Kushner became Trump’s indispensable second peace envoy

Despite promising to stay on the sidelines this administration, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner has become enmeshed in critical diplomatic negotiations....

09/12/2025 11:00 Washington Post

Honduras issues arrest warrant for ex-president pardoned by Trump

The country’s attorney general said Juan Orlando Hernández was wanted for money laundering and fraud. He had been serving a 45-year sentence for drug trafficking....

09/12/2025 05:40 Washington Post

Zelensky rules out ceding land to Russia, refusing to bow to Putin or Trump

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not give up territory under pressure from Moscow or to satisfy Washington in its push to resolve peace talks....

09/12/2025 00:05 Washington Post

Trump warns of European ‘civilizational erasure’ in realigned national security strategy

The National Security Strategy, which each administration must publish, also said the U.S. should focus on the Western Hemisphere and consider the Middle East a place for investment....

05/12/2025 18:23 Washington Post

Former deep-cover Russian spy leads Moscow campaign to co-opt Indian tech

Russia is hoping to use India’s booming tech sector to challenge the West and China for IT supremacy....

05/12/2025 13:44 Washington Post

In Russia talks, NATO allies fear Trump is doing his ‘own thing’

In negotiations over Ukraine, European officials say President Trump’s team has positioned the U.S. as an independent arbiter rather than the leading voice of NATO....

05/12/2025 09:43 Washington Post

Putin maintains hard line in talks as Trump says Moscow is open to a deal

President Donald Trump said that the Moscow talks on resolving the war in Ukraine were “reasonably good” and that his negotiators say Putin wants an agreement....

04/12/2025 18:18 Washington Post

U.K. report formally blames Russian agents, Putin in 2018 poisoning death

A review panel formally confirmed long-standing suspicions that Russia was responsible for the chemical weapon that killed a woman in Salisbury, England....

04/12/2025 16:25 Washington Post

Trump’s crackdown on Russian oil hangs heavy as Putin arrives in India

Putin’s state visit to India presents Prime Minister Modi with a delicate diplomatic challenge, analysts say, needing to reassure Moscow without angering Trump....

04/12/2025 16:15 Washington Post

England warns people to stop visiting ER for ingrown toenails and hiccups

Emergency rooms are “under siege” from patients with minor ailments, England’s National Health Service said, ahead of a busy flu season and a doctors’ strike....

04/12/2025 14:49 Washington Post

Confident of military success, Putin refuses compromise in Moscow talks

European officials, who were not included in the talks, said at a NATO meeting in Brussels that Russia appears to be inflexible in the negotiations....

03/12/2025 18:39 Washington Post

The glaring ‘hypocrisy’ behind Trump’s war on drugs

The Trump administration’s pardon of convicted drug trafficker Juan Orlando Hernández raises questions about its war on “narcoterrorism.”...

03/12/2025 01:21 Washington Post

Hegseth, citing ‘fog of war,’ says he learned of survivors hours after strike

The defense secretary’s remarks were the most extensive public accounting yet of his involvement in the military’s lethal attack on alleged drug smugglers on Sept. 2....

02/12/2025 23:33 Washington Post

U.S. delegation meets with Putin in latest bid to end Ukraine war

Ahead of the key meeting, Russia professed fresh military victories, hammering home its claim that it can succeed in the war without negotiations if it wants....

02/12/2025 23:09 Washington Post

Why Ukraine’s history sows fear of weak security guarantees

As Steve Witkoff meets with Putin over a Ukraine deal, security assurances remain a sticking point. Ukraine has been offered them before, to little avail....

02/12/2025 10:00 Washington Post

In war-weary Lebanon, many look to Pope Leo for peace

Leo XIV is in Lebanon, the final leg of his foreign papal debut. Many weary from war with Israel see him as a beacon of hope as he offers himself as peacemaker....

01/12/2025 17:57 Washington Post

Climate change, aging farmers endanger Japan’s ‘Rolls-Royce of pearls’

Japan’s famous akoya pearls have never been more in demand but, as seas warm and younger generations move to the city, the industry’s future is uncertain....

30/11/2025 10:00 Washington Post

Zelensky faces political peril as corruption scandal consumes top aide

Beset by scandal at home and under U.S. pressure to reach a deal to end the Russian invasion, Volodymyr Zelensky is facing one of the most hazardous moments of his presidency....

29/11/2025 15:24 Washington Post

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