Volodymyr Zelensky

Key Points Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Washington on Friday to sign a minerals deal. Donald Trump has ruled out the US providing more formal security guarantees to Ukraine in exchange. Former US president Joe Biden backed Ukraine's eventual membership in NATO without offering a concrete timeframe. US President…

Far-left President of Colombia Gustavo Petro criticized Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky Tuesday evening for his “stupidity” in “giving Ukraine to the Americans,” referring to a soon-to-be signed mineral agreement with the administration of President Donald Trump. “Zelensky’s stupidity, and I say it plainly, for letting himself be manipulated by Western…

President Trump confirmed on Wednesday that the U.S. and Ukraine have reached a minerals deal and that he still expects Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to visit the White House on Friday.Comments from Zelensky earlier on Wednesday had seemed to put the deal and the visit in doubt.Why it matters: The…

Elon Musk holds up a chainsaw he received from Argentina's President Javier Milei, right.:AP Matt Watts ©Evening Standard Fri 21 Feb 2025 at 10:12 Elon Musk accused Kyiv of being a “massive graft machine feeding off the dead bodies of Ukrainian soldiers” and claimed Volodymyr Zelensky was “despised” by his…

WASHINGTON – A crucial meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and U.S. President Donald Trump ended in acrimony after a very tense exchange in the Oval Office, with Zelenskyy leaving the White House early and Trump saying, "He can come back when he is ready for peace." Zelenskyy departed without…

French President Emmanuel Macron has affirmed that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is a legitimate leader. Speaking on Thursday, Macron emphasised that, unlike Russian President Vladimir Putin, Zelensky had assumed office through a free and fair election process. The French President was responding to US President Donald Trump’s denunciation of Zelensky…

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KHARKIV, Ukraine — Civilians in this hard-hit eastern city say they are feeling increasingly abandoned by the United States as President Donald Trump escalates attacks on their wartime leader Volodymyr Zelenskyy. “It is very sad because we feel we’ve lost a partner and a friend,” Ludmilla Ivanova, a 36-year-old math…

By Maya Mehrara is a News Reporter at Newsweek based in London, U.K.. Her focus is reporting on international news. She has covered Ukraine, Russia, immigration issues, and the revolution in Iran. Maya joined Newsweek in 2024 from the Londoners and had previously written for MyLondon, the Camden New Journal,…