Belgium urges Europe to drop plan for frozen Russian assets to aid Ukraine

The foreign minister says the EU is downplaying its concerns and over the plan which Belgium sees as "fundamentally wrong".

He was Russia’s richest man and spent ten years in the gulag. Mikhail Khodorkovsky on Ukraine, Putin and failed talks to merge with a U.S. oil giant

In an exclusive interview, Mikhail Khodorkovsky says Vladimir Putin has abandoned his previous pragmatism — and reveals the U.S. oil company he nearly merged Yukos with.

Trump says there’s a ‘good chance’ a deal can be reached to end the war after US-Ukraine talks in Florida

US President Donald Trump expressed optimism after a high-level meeting between US officials and a Ukrainian delegation in Miami on Sunday, suggesting there was a “good chance” of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Why Ukraine’s history sows fear of weak security guarantees

As Steve Witkoff meets with Putin over a Ukraine deal, security assurances remain a sticking point. Ukraine has been offered them before, to little avail.

Belgium criticises EU proposal to use Russian frozen assets for Ukraine before its unveiling

By Julia Payne, Lili Bayer and Andrew Gray BRUSSELS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Belgium criticised a European Union proposal to use Russian frozen assets, held in a Belgian financial institution, to channel 140 billion euros to Ukraine - even before the blueprint was unveiled on Wednesday.

Zelensky says Ukraine territory 'most difficult' issue, as US envoy prepares to meet Putin

US envoy Steve Witkoff and Donald Trump's adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner will meet Vladimir Putin on Tuesday.

Rubio and Witkoff are meeting with Ukraine’s negotiators as Trump pushes to broker an end to the war

President Donald Trump's top officials are meeting with a team of Ukrainian negotiators in Florida. Trump has been trying to broker an end to Russia's war in Ukraine since he took office.
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