Alex Raufoglu

1 week ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

Sweden’s top diplomat Maria Malmer Stenergard is urging the Western allies to ramp up support for Ukraine and to further pressure Russian President Vladimir Putin to get him to the negotiating table. “It’s obvious that Russia doesn’t want peace now. Ukraine has been willing to discuss a peace and show that they’re really willing to find a way forward,” Stenergard said on Friday in Washington after meeting with senior US officials, including Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the State Department.

1 week ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio hosted his British counterpart David Lammy at the White House on Thursday where they discussed a wide range of topics including the Iran-Israel crisis, Russia’s war in Ukraine, next week’s NATO summit, and bilateral relations, the State Department said. The high-stakes meeting was originally planned for last Friday, June 13, but got pushed back due to scheduling conflicts, Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reports.

1 week ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

US President Donald Trump said Thursday he would make a decision on whether his country should get involved in Israel’s conflict with Iran “within the next two weeks.”  White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt read out a message from Trump at a daily briefing, citing “a lot of speculations” about whether the US would be “directly involved.”Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.

1 week ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

The leaders of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC) on Tuesday offered rare bipartisan support for NATO ahead of next week’s leaders meeting next week to discuss ways to boost European capabilities in the face of Putin’s growing appetite to use military force in the continent, Kyiv Post’s Washington correspondent reports. The NATO summit, set for June 24-25 in The Hague, comes as the US is seen to be retreating from taking primary responsibility for Europe’s protection.

1 week ago | kyivpost.com | Alex Raufoglu

US President Donald Trump told reporters on Wednesday that he spoke with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “yesterday” and urged him to ”mediate Russia first” as the Kremlin’s chief eyes role as an Israel-Iran peacemaker. “I spoke to him yesterday, and I said – you know he actually offered to help mediate [in the Middle East] – I said, ‘do me a favor, mediate your own’” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn. Follow our coverage of the war on the @Kyivpost_official.