Russia has said it will under no circumstances consider handing back the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014 following a pro-Western coup in Kyiv. Sergei Tsekov, the Russian senator for occupied Crimea, said the peninsula will “never return” to Ukraine and
Jeremy Corbyn has come under fire after calling on the “protagonist” in Ukraine’s war to come together for “serious talks”. Speaking at a rally, the former Labour leader said if the warring nations can come together to secure a grain deal, “it
Ukraine and the West will have to negotiate with Russia “whether it wants to or not”, the nation’s foreign minister has warned, otherwise it risks a “very serious reduction” in its global influence. In a bizarre rant by Sergei Lavrov, Putin’s long-serving
Putin claims Russia is ready to negotiate; Ukraine accuses Kremlin of trying to avoid responsibility
Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed in an interview with state television on Sunday that Moscow wants to negotiate, even as Ukrainian cities were hit with a barrage of missiles over the Christmas weekend. “We are ready to negotiate with everyone involved about