European NATO leaders must not be naive when discussing a Ukraine peace force but face up to the reality that they would need to deploy tens of thousands of troops to the country for the long term, the head of Germany's soldiers' union said.

Special U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff says Russian leader Vladimir Putin agreed to allow the U.S. and Europe to offer Ukraine a security guarantee resembling NATO's collective defense mandate.

President Trump’s sojourn in Alaska is the beginning of a long, excruciating process whose success is unknown, Chicago Tribune columnist Daniel DePetris writes.

The Trump administration has ruled out deploying US troops on the ground in Ukraine, but officials suggest Washington could provide air support.

It’s not often that you have eight European leaders, including one whose country is at war, descend on Washington in as close to an unplanned snap visit as you can get. Let’s hope that the

Trump asserts Ukraine should remain outside NATO, citing concerns over its democratic status and the implications for U.S. national security.

President Trump hosted Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and European leaders at the White House on Monday, an event the U.S. president called "a very good, early step" to possibly resolve the war in Ukraine.

Kurt Volker is an American former ambassador to NATO and former special representative for Ukraine. Nico Lange is a former chief of staff to the German defence minister.

The strikes occurred during a renewed effort by U.S. President Donald Trump to reach a peace settlement in the three-year war.