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The United States will abandon efforts to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace agreement if progress isn’t made very soon and unless clear signs emerge that a deal can be reached, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Friday. “We’re not going to continue with this endeavour for weeks and months …

The US could have boots on the ground in Ukraine — though not in the way many might expect. During a recent phone call between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, where Ukraine agreed to pause attacks on Russia’s energy infrastructure for 30 days, the idea emerged …

Russian President Vladimir Putin hasn’t changed his order not to strike energy infrastructure in Ukraine despite reports of Ukrainian hits on Russian energy assets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday. “So far, there have been no other orders from the president,” Peskov told Russian reporters who asked him if …

The United States and Ukraine have reached an agreement on jointly developing Ukraine’s mineral resources, including transition metals and rare earth minerals, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday, citing Ukrainian officials and the final version of the agreement it had seen. Talks have apparently progressed since last week’s heightened tensions …

As Ukraine prepares to mark three years since Russia’s full-scale invasion on February 24, leaders in Kyiv are weighing U.S. proposals for access to Ukrainian mineral resources. Speaking on February 23, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said talks with the United States on the matter were “making progress.” The same day, …

Potential sanctions relief on Russia in case of a ceasefire or peace deal for Ukraine will not boost materially Russia’s oil supply to the market, according to Goldman Sachs. As the U.S. and Russia launched talks on Ukraine and potential U.S.-Russia economic rapprochement, oil market participants and analysts have started …

Germany’s year-ahead power futures prices fell this week to the lowest level since the beginning of the year amid falling European natural gas prices as talks on a peace deal in Ukraine began. In recent months, Germany has become more dependent on fossil fuel-powered generation amid low wind speeds that …

Ukrainians are learning the transactional nature of the Trump administration as the US president revealed a “critical” (pun intended) part of his plan for ending the three-year old conflict. Media reports say that Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, met with Ukrainian President Zelensky on Feb. 12. The two discussed …

Russian natural gas exports via Soviet-era pipelines running through Ukraine to Europe were halted in the early hours of New Year’s Day as a transit deal expired and warring Moscow and Kyiv have failed to reach an agreement to continue the flows. The shutdown of Russia’s oldest gas route to …

Ukraine has taken delivery of its first U.S. LNG cargo at a Greek terminal as Ukraine and Europe look to bolster their energy security by reducing their dependence on Russian gas, Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said on Friday. The delivery of approximately 100 million cubic meters of gas, …