Trump needs a package to put on the table with Russia, but a positive outcome in Riyadh would be amazing

Pressure builds on European countries to formally seize funds and use them to help Kyiv, but some are reluctant to do so

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The U.S. decision to stop sharing military intelligence with Ukraine hobbles its ability to strike and defend against the Russian army, and increases the pressure on it to accept a peace deal being pushed by the Trump administration.

If U.S. President Donald Trump were to join the leaders of Russia and China at the Kremlin on May 9, 2025, his name could be consigned to history as that of a “great peacemaker, both for America and for the whole world.”

Former CIA Russia analyst George Beebe talked about Trump administration efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

On February 28, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky got the meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump that he had been hoping for. It was an opportunity to sign their agreement on minerals and, more importantly, to improve relations and heal their recent fight.

There is no need to sugar-coat the Ukrainian regime.

The time has arrived for diplomacy that brings collective security to Europe, Ukraine, and Russia.

Alfred de Zayas is a law professor at the Geneva School of Diplomacy who served as a UN Independent Expert on International Order (2012-2018).

Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s clumsy rhetoric, he has taken the first courageous steps to ending the needless, all too avoidable NATO-Russia Ukrainian War. The EU is outraged, and NATO is coldly silent. The road to peace will be laden with potholes, and one should be clear-eyed about that.