The leaders are now taking questions. A Sky News journalist asks Starmer and Zelensky about the US's refusal to provide long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine. Starmer says the UK is pushing the case for long-range missiles and that "discussions are ongoing".

Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches

The U.S. president was given three options for sanctions after running out of patience with the Kremlin over the Ukraine war.

For months, President Donald Trump resisted calls to slap new sanctions on Russia, believing he could end the war in a deal with Vladimir Putin — including with a quick peace summit in the coming weeks in Budapest.

President Donald Trump’s sanctions crackdown on Russia risks undermining one of the bright spots in the Trump economy: tame gas prices.

Kirill Dmitriev, Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, is in the United States for talks, the RIA state news agency quoted an unnamed source as saying on Friday.

President Donald Trump canceled his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, due to insufficient progress toward peace negotiations, the White House said.

It was, perhaps, the costliest phone call in history. When Sergei Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, told his American counterpart on Monday that the Kremlin had not budged from its demand for an even bigger slice of Ukraine than its forces currently hold,