Putin has ruled out any significant territorial concessions and demands that Kyiv abandon its NATO membership ambitions.

U.S. President-elect Trump, who has vowed to swiftly end the conflict, is returning to the White House at a time of Russian ascendancy. Moscow controls a chunk of Ukraine about the size of the American state of Virginia and is advancing at the fastest pace since the early days of the 2022 invasion.

Now that Donald Trump has won the necessary electoral votes, he will use his position as president to end the war between Russia and Ukraine because Russian President Vladimir Putin has Trump in his back pocket ( “Ukraine fires several US-made longer-range missiles into Russia for the first time,