The comments followed Reuters’ earlier reporting that Washington is pressuring Kyiv to agree to a U.S.-drafted peace proposal. Under the draft agreement, Ukraine will be required to give up parts of its territory and certain types of weaponry.

According to a 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine briefed to the media on Wednesday, the US and Russia have agreed that Kyiv should give up a vast tract of the east of the country, halve its army, abandon its constitutionally mandated Nato membership application, and give up any weapons that could be used in its future defence.

BRITAIN has already mapped out which troops it could send into Ukraine if a ceasefire is agreed, the Defence Secretary has said. John Healey revealed the UK has already carried out reconnaissance

A billion-dollar money laundering network that operated across Britain bought a controlling stake in a Kyrgyzstani bank to facilitate sanctions evasion and support Russia's war in Ukraine, Britain's National Crime Agency said on Friday.

The president of Ukraine is facing a confluence of crises testing his ability to lead an increasingly weary nation nearly four years into a devastating full-scale invasion by Russia. For more than a week,

FRANCE’S top general has warned the country must be ready to “lose our children” in a future war with Putin as Paris erupted in anger over the secret US-Russia peace plan. General Fabien