“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part ...

Ukraine has large deposits of critical minerals, including lithium, graphite, cobalt, titanium and some rare earths. It also has reserves of oil, gas and coal. All of these are covered by the ...

Gideon Rachman So I guess the danger for Ukraine is that Putin nominally agrees to a ceasefire, Trump says war is over, keeps and then breaks the ceasefire, and Trump in his way, blames the Ukrainians ...

The writer is US Treasury secretary. While much has been reported about the economic partnership that President Donald Trump ...

Marc Filippino Good morning from the Financial Times. Today is Friday, February 28th and this is your FT News Briefing. UK ...

Gideon tests the mood in Kiev three years after the Russian invasion as the Trump presidency upends previous tenets of international politics. He talks to Ukrainian MP Lesia Vasylenko and Oleksandr ...

Simply sign up to the War in Ukraine myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Yuri Bushkovsky was born not long after ...

Vladimir Putin has described initial contacts with the Trump administration as “inspiring a certain degree of hope”, his most positive remarks since US-Russia talks began on ending the war in Ukraine.

But before the presidents can talk peace, they may need to agree on a ceasefire in their own war of words. Shots were first fired when Trump last week called the Ukrainian president a “dictator ...

Donald Trump signalled the US is prepared to forge an “economic” deal with Russia, saying Washington had recently held “very good talks” with Moscow over ending the war in Ukraine.

Trump has presented the mineral deal as a way of ensuring Ukraine pays back previous US military aid. A draft agreement, dated Friday and seen by the Financial Times, called for a reconstruction ...