Gideon Rachman So I guess the danger for Ukraine is that Putin nominally agrees to a ceasefire, Trump says war is over, keeps and then breaks the ceasefire, and Trump in his way, blames the Ukrainians and says, well, I’m not going to come in anyway, you know.

Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh.

The writer is US Treasury secretary. While much has been reported about the economic partnership that President Donald Trump has proposed to his Ukrainian counterpart, Volodymyr Z

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Yuri Bushkovsky was born not long after the death of Josef Stalin, lived through the cold war and dissolution of the Soviet Union,

But before the presidents can talk peace, they may need to agree on a ceasefire in their own war of words. Shots were first fired when Trump last week called the Ukrainian president a “dictator without elections” and falsely blamed him for starting the war. Zelenskyy responded by saying that Trump was living in a Russian “disinformation bubble”.

Gideon tests the mood in Kiev three years after the Russian invasion as the Trump presidency upends previous tenets of international politics. He talks to Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and Oleksandr Khomiak, director of Drone Space Labs, a defence start-up. Clip: European Commission