The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Ukrainian civilians who have been held captive in Russia since 2014 have been released as part of a huge exchange, Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

ON THE GROUND: Putin’s aggression on the Ukrainian front line has stepped up in the recent weeks, leaving locals with little choice but to flee west. Harry Stourton reports from the eastern town of Dobropillia

Foreign minister’s attire and inflight menu for Russian media are latest in series of provocations towards Ukraine

Pope Leo XIV is praying for a peaceful end to the “increasingly deafening violence” of wars around the world

Donald Trump has said that there is a 25 per cent chance the summit might fail

US president says Russia needs to show willingness to seriously talk about the end of the war in Ukraine, as he travels to meeting in Anchorage, Alaska

The US vice-president journals about his sleepover with David Lammy and Tory-dodging in the Cotswolds

September S&P 500 E-Mini futures (ESU25) are trending up +0.17% this morning, bolstered by continued hopes for a Federal Reserve rate cut next month, while investors await U.S. retail sales data and high-stakes talks between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin.

The MAGA firebrand launched her fiery attack on X just hours before the crucial peace talks in Alaska

Russian markets have been jittery since President Donald Trump set a deadline for Russia to agree to peace in Ukraine or face tightened sanctions

John Healey dismissed suggestions that the UK’s approach to the Ukraine war is to ‘watch and wait’ as Russian and American delegations arrived in Alaska for crunch talks