Talks between the U.S. and Russia over the war in Ukraine are zeroing in on five regions of Ukraine that Moscow claims as its own but that Kyiv isn’t prepared to give up.

Since the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, western nations have allocated more than $250bn, external (£205bn) of military, humanitarian and other financial aid to Ukraine.

Despite the Russian leader's 2022 declaration, Moscow does not fully control these Ukrainian regions but hopes that the U.S. can pressure Ukraine into giving them up. This is according to ...

Dnipro and Mykolaiv regions. While Ukraine has agreed to a full, 30-day ceasefire that Trump has proposed, Putin has made a complete ceasefire conditional on a halt of arms supplies to Kyiv and a ...