Vladimir Putin is dusting off his stalling and delaying tactics playbook as peace talks with Ukraine falter and Russia continues to build up troops on the frontline and pound Ukrainian targets. In the space of just a few days, Putin has questioned ...

Russia has yet again ignored Donald Trump’s bid to hold a summit between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky and said attempts to resolve security issues for Kyiv without Moscow’s participation was a “road to nowhere”.

VLADIMIR Putin is ready to meet Ukraine's President Zelensky, according a top Kremlin minister - but only after working through a list of vague "issues". Pressure has been mounting on Vlad to sit down with Zelensky since the White House summit - but the ...

According to former Defense Committee Chairman Tobias Ellwood, Zelensky did not have the upper hand; Trump did, as the 79-year-old, who himself is believed to have been “manipulated” by Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Alaska last week ...

A summit in Paris six years ago was the first and only time the two presidents ever met, flanked by French president Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel. At the time, Putin and Zelensky were looking to hash out a ceasefire deal for war in Donbas in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed forces were fighting Ukrainian troops.

The Kremlin is keeping its options open, but analysts said the Russian leader would probably only meet with his Ukrainian counterpart to accept a capitulation.

President Trump seeks to broker a meeting of the two leaders to end Europe’s most destructive war in generations.