The most potentially consequential diplomatic peace talks of the past 80 years have lurched forward at an agonisingly slow pace. But Ukraine’s latest offer to drop its bid to join NATO in exchange for Western security guarantees could change that. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, however, still refuses to accept the …

The Secretary General of NATO, Mark Rutte, in an interview on Wednesday, said any peace deal struck with Russia over Ukraine must not be “a repeat of Minsk II” – which aimed at ending Russia’s limited invasion of Ukraine in 2015 but instead laid the groundwork for the full-scale Russian …

The new Czech PM Andrej Babis joined his two Central European counterparts Robert Fico of Slovakia and Viktor Orban of Hungary in deciding not to take part in a 90-billion-euro loan to Ukraine, which will secure the embattled country’s funding for next year to continue its defence against Russia’s invasion. …