Foreign minister Sergei Lavrov suggests Moscow would walk away from proposal that differs substantially from Alaska talks

A criminal gang has been arrested in Russia for using homeless people to steal their payments, authorities have said.

From the front-line city of Pokrovsk in eastern Donetsk, to Zaporizhzhia in the south, there is little doubt that Russia is making advances. But, battlefield monitors suggest the picture is not quite so bleak for Ukraine as Trump and Putin suggest.

US army secretary Dan Driscoll arrived in Abu Dhabi on Monday for talks with Ukraine’s military intelligence chief and a Russian delegation as Washington pushes a peace deal to end the Kremlin’s war.

Sen. Mitch McConnell, a staunch supporter of Ukraine, has warned the proposal to end the war with Russia could come with consequences.

US hails Ukraine peace talks progress but security questions remain. November 24, 2025. The United States and Ukraine said they had created an "updated and refined peace f

Top U.S. and Ukrainian officials said Sunday they’d made progress toward ending the Russia-Ukraine war but provided scant details after discussing the American proposal to achieve peace that has sparked concerns among many of Washington’s European allies that the plan is too conciliatory to Moscow.

BBC Verify has been gathering and checking material posted online from Kyiv after Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said overnight Russian strikes had killed at least six people Good morning from the BBC’s specialists in video verification,