The speaker of Russia's lower house of parliament, Vyacheslav Volodin, said on Friday that Britain would have to return Moscow money that London had decided to illegally gift to Ukraine to fund Kyiv's military.

New Zealand sacked its High Commissioner to the U.K. Phil Goff after he wondered aloud whether President Trump "really understands" the history leading up to the second world war.

Minister slaps down Russia's ambassador to London telling him Vladimir Putin could end Ukraine war tomorrow - Health minister Stephen Kinnock condemned Putin’s ‘illegal and barbaric’ invasion of Ukrai

The West is at a “crossroads in history,” Britain’s Prime Minister Keir Starmer told European leaders at a pivotal summit in London on Sunday, as the continent sought to wrestle control of negotiations over the Russia-Ukraine war away from the US and present a united front amid a meltdown in relations between Kyiv and Washington.

In an interview on The World With Yalda Hakim, Andrei Kelin says Moscow told Washington it believes its territorial advances in Ukraine "should be recognised" as part of any peace deal.

Haltbakk Bunkers said it sold about 3mn litres of fuel to US forces last year. Its decision to stop selling to US forces — including soldiers at its petrol stations along Norway’s coastline — prompted the government in Oslo to stress that it was not Norwegian policy and that “all requested support has been provided” to US forces.

European leaders met in London to form a plan to help end the war in Ukraine. But even potential peacekeepers face political and economic hurdles.

The naval drills, which include "striking maritime targets," will "strengthen military mutual trust" between Beijing, Moscow and Tehran, China said.

Welcome to TOPLive. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is in London, where leaders of more than a dozen European nations are gathering for a second emergency security summit. They’re attempting to form a united front in the wake of US President Donald Trump’s decision to open direct talks with Russia over the fate of Ukraine.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has suggested NATO's Article 5 protection could be extended to cover Ukraine even if it is not a full member state, suggesting this would be better than options such as the deployment of peacekeeping forces to monitor a ceasefire.

The number of Britons who think Prime Minister Keir Starmer is doing a good job has risen as he steps up his role in diplomacy over the war in Ukraine, an opinion poll showed. Starmer met U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on February 27 and hosted talks involving Ukraine's president and European leaders on March 2.