Zia Yusuf has refused to condemn Nigel Farage’s previous claim that the west had “provoked” Vladimir Putin’s invasion Ukraine. Reform UK’s head of policy was questioned over the party leader’s remarks from last June, when Farage said eastwards expansion of Nato and the EU had triggered the war.

Sens. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the chair of the Senate Armed Services Committee, panned President Trump’s proposal to end the Russia-Ukraine war as rewarding Russian

Putin has not indicated a willingness to negotiate an end to the war that doesn't include giving Russia gains it has not acquired militarily.

MAINE, USA — Maine independent U.S. Senator Angus King is strongly criticizing President Donald Trump’s pending peace plan for Russia’s war on Ukraine and Trump’s pressuring of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to agree to the plan on Thanksgiving.

President Trump is pressuring Ukraine to sign on to his 28-point peace plan. Russian President Vladimir Putin says the plan could form the "basis" for a final settlement and is already accusing Kyiv of opposing it.