European Union leaders are gathering this week at the end of political year dominated by U.S. President Donald Trump.

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Ukraine and its allies are scrambling to keep Trump onside as the U.S. piles pressure on Kyiv to make a peace deal.

Vladimir Putin says Russia needs to discuss President Trump's Ukraine peace proposal seriously as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to visit Moscow.

A top ally of Vladimir Putin has claimed Donald Trump thinks Ukraine will “disappear from the map altogether” unless the war stops. Since returning to office at the start of the year, the US president has been pushing to resolve the conflict as soon as possible – even if it means rewarding Russia for its aggression with more land.

The time has come for Trump to call Putin’s bluff. Just as important, it is time for the president to recognize that Ukraine holds more cards, relative to Russia, than he might have realized. The Ukrainian frontlines can outlast Putin’s crumbling economy.

Vladimir Putin does not want a deal, and the sweetness of being begged to entertain one is something the Russian president relishes. Five hours of US President Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law meeting with the Kremlin head seemed to yield little publicly.

Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have learned a thing about the Russian dictator he calls a friend. He’s tried all kinds of contradictory gambits in pursuit of peace in Ukraine: welcoming Vladimir Putin in Alaska,

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow said the Kremlin is running the United States' foreign policy in an interview on "The Late Show" with host Stephen Colbert. "You know, Russia is a podunk country," Maddow said to Colbert.

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told ABC News that he is "very much confident and pretty sure" that Moscow and Kyiv are "on the verge" of a deal to end the war, as U.S.-brokered peace talks make slow but steady progress.