Amid a flurry of diplomatic meetings in Moscow and Abu Dhabi, in an interview on TV channel France 2 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called on his European partners – as well as United States President Donald Trump – to put more pressure on Russia to end the four-year war.

On Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to have direct peace talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war.

KYIV — A second round of talks between Russian, Ukrainian and US officials on a US-drafted plan to end the nearly four-year Ukraine war will begin on Wednesday, instead of Sunday, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

AN AMERICAN plan to guarantee Ukraine’s security is “100 per cent” ready to be signed in a major step to end Putin’s bloody war. President Zelensky is waiting for a time

Russia escalates its demands as U.S.-mediated peace talks with Ukraine open in Abu Dhabi, issuing a stark ultimatum even as diplomacy begins. Moscow insists Kyiv must concede territory or face a continuing war,

Trilateral peace talks in Abu Dhabi between delegations from Russia, Ukraine and the United States have inched the three-year‑old war into a fragile new phase, with an American official saying the process is now “very close” to paving the way for a first‑ever summit between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky.

The talks, held in the United Arab Emirates, were the "first format of this kind in quite some time," Zelensky wrote in an X post.