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Trump Says Ukraine War Deal Closer Than Ever After Secretive Mar-a-Lago Talks

Donald Trump says a Ukraine peace deal is close after secretive Mar-a-Lago talks with Zelensky, but key obstacles remain.

International Business Times

Breakthrough or Bluff? Trump Says Ukraine War Deal Closer Than Ever After Secretive Mar-a-Lago Talks

Donald Trump says a Ukraine peace deal is close after secretive Mar-a-Lago talks with Zelensky, but key obstacles remain.

International Business Times UK

Trump says US and Ukraine 'a lot closer' on peace deal but 'thorny issues' remain

US President Donald Trump has said that he and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky were "getting a lot closer, maybe very close" to an agreement to end the war in Ukraine, but acknowledged that the fate of the Donbas region remains a key unresolved issue.

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The Guardian - UK

Zelenskyy to Meet Trump Sunday in Florida as Peace Plan Nears Completion Despite Putin's Donbas Demands

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet Donald Trump on Sunday in Florida to discuss a nearly complete 20-point peace plan.

International Business Times UK

Zelensky to meet Trump for high-stakes talks in Mar-a-Lago in bid to seal peace deal by new year

European leaders may take part online as Zelensky looks to ‘finalise’ an agreement he says is ‘90% completed’

The Independent UK

Zelensky open to withdrawing troops for demilitarised zone in Ukraine in new peace plan

President stresses most sensitive issues of 20-point peace plan require meeting with leaders despite progress in talks

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Ukraine and US agree on most points of peace plan except Donbas and nuclear plant, Zelenskyy says

Ukraine and the US have agreed on most points of a 20-point peace plan with Russia, but control of Donbas and the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant remains contentious, Ukrainian president said. Moscow is expected to respond on Wednesday.

Euronews

Ukraine hits Russian oil terminal, jets and ships in wave of strikes

Meanwhile, Russia continued its strikes on Ukraine, firing scores of drones at Ukrainian energy infrastructure overnight and attacking targets in Ukraine's Donbas.

Euronews

Kremlin official says Russian police and National Guard to stay in Ukraine's Donbas even after peace

A senior Kremlin official says Russian police and the National Guard will remain in eastern Ukraine’s Donbas even if a peace settlement ends the war

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war latest: EU agrees indefinite freeze on €210bn of Russian assets

Ukraine’s ambassador to Washington insisted the meeting ‘only covered national security related issues’

The Independent UK

US wants Ukraine to withdraw from Donbas and create ‘free economic zone’, says Zelenskyy

Ukrainian president says plan would not be fair without guarantees that Russia would not simply take over zone

The Guardian - UK

Ukraine war briefing: ‘Donbas Cowboy’ – Russians jailed for killing US volunteer on their side

Russell Bentley, 63, was grabbed and tortured by soldiers who thought he was spying for Ukraine; $800m US arms shortfall, says Zelenskyy. What we know on day 1,385

The Guardian - AU

Putin vows Russia will take Donbas by force if Ukraine's troops will not withdraw

Putin's comments follow the latest flurry of meetings set in motion by US President Donald Trump in what has been the most intense diplomatic push to stop the fighting since Russia launched its war against Ukraine nearly four years ago.

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The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump Jr warns US could end support for Kyiv ahead of London peace talks

Sir Keir Starmer will meet with Volodymyr Zelensky, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz in London on Monday

The Independent UK

Mapped: Inside fierce battle for Pokrovsk as Ukraine denies Russia has captured key city

Kyiv has denied claims that Russia has captured the key strategic town in the Donbas

Axios

Scoop: Trump plan asks Ukraine to cede additional territory for security guarantee

"We are now going to wait. The ball is in Zelensky's court."

The Guardian - UK

South Africa launches investigation into 17 citizens fighting in Ukraine

Men aged 20 to 39 ‘lured to join mercenary force’ in Donbas region have requested assistance to return home

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The Independent UK

South Africa investigates how 17 men were duped into joining mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war

The South African government says it will investigate how 17 of its citizens were tricked into fighting as mercenaries in the Russia-Ukraine war after they asked for help to escape the conflict in Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region

The Independent UK

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump sanctions Russian oil giants over Putin’s ‘lack of commitment to peace’

US president said he has good conversations with his Moscow counterpart but they ‘just don’t go anywhere’

The Conversation

When it comes to Ukraine peace negotiations, it’s all over the map

Donald Trump is reportedly “sick” of seeing maps of the front line in Ukraine. Indeed, according to one European official’s account, he tossed aside Ukrainian delegation maps during his latest meeting with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the White House on Oct. 17, 2025.

The Guardian - AU

Trump suggests carving up Ukraine’s Donbas region to end war after meeting with Zelenskyy

Trump made the comments after a tense meeting with Zelenskyy in which the Ukraine leader failed to secure supplies of Tomahawk missiles

Radio France Internationale

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed in Ukraine drone attack

Antoni Lallican, an award-winning French photographer on assignment in Ukraine, died in a drone attack in the eastern Donbas region on Friday, press groups have announced. It is the first time a journalist has been killed by a drone in Ukraine in more than three years of war with Russia.

Euronews

French photojournalist Antoni Lallican killed by a Russian drone in Ukraine's eastern Donbas region

French President Emmanuel Macron was quick to react to the announcement, praising and expressing his condolences to the late journalist in a post on X.

Al Jazeera

In Ukraine’s Sloviansk, some are abandoning long-held sympathies for Russia

Locals who sided with pro-Russian separatists become ideologically closer to Ukraine as the war rumbles on.

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