Russia is open to negotiations on an end to the Ukraine war if initiated by U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, but any talks need to be based on the realities of Russian advances, Moscow's ambassador to the U.

As Donald Trump’s return to the White House draws closer and talk of a concerted effort to stop the fighting in Ukraine grows, Russia is pressing a monthslong initiative on the battlefield. Ukraine, meanwhile,

A senior Trump adviser said Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky‘s hope of regaining Crimea isn’t a priority in peace talks being facilitated by the future Trump administration. “And if President Zelensky comes to the table and says,

Fox News reported on Wednesday that President-elect Donald Trump will soon appoint a peace envoy to lead negotiations on ending Russia’s war against Ukraine. One of the agency’s sources promised “someone with a lot of credibility” to serve in a non-salaried role similar to Kurt Volker,

RFE/RL’s Russian investigative unit, Systema, has obtained a draft treaty that Moscow proposed early in talks that began days after the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. It would have left a truncated Ukraine deeply vulnerable,

The election of Donald Trump opens a possibility for new dialogue between Russia and the United States although Washington's aim remains to contain Moscow, the Russian ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva told reporters on Thursday.

"Regardless of domestic political shifts, (Washington) consistently pursues a sense of containing Moscow...the change of administration does little to alter it," Ambassador Gennady Gatilov said.