May 18 from https://www.redstate.com Right

VP Vance, Ukraine's Zelensky Meet in Rome, and Zelensky Waxes Rhapsodic on Negotiations Without Russia

On Sunday, Vice President JD Vance and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky met to discuss the Russo-Ukraine war and ways to end it. President Zelensky took to his official X account after that meeting to strike an optimistic tone as to the results of that meeting. Advertisement Good meeting with @VP J. D. Vance and Secretary of State @SecRubio in Rome. During our talks we discussed...

May 17 from https://www.msnbc.com/ Left

Trump's Russia-Ukraine peace talks are a farce

UPDATE (May 17, 2025; 12:00 p.m. ET): On Saturday, Trump said he was planning to speak separately with both Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Vladimir Putin on Monday in an effort to finally secure a ceasefire. Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently lamented that people who were alive in Ukraine are dead today “because this war continues.” Not exactly. They’re dead because Russia killed them in an...

May 17 from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ Right

The Istanbul Talks Were a Success

Predictions to the contrary, Ukraine and Russia’s first direct talks in three years, held in Istanbul on May 16, went quite well. Most importantly, the two sides agreed to keep talking. For the Trump administration, which has made ending the war in Ukraine a priority, this initial round of negotiations marks the exact sort of breakthrough it had hoped to create. Washington’s priority now...

May 16 from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ Right

Russia, Ukraine Agree to Prisoner Exchange

Russia and Ukraine’s direct talks Friday in Istanbul yielded an agreement to exchange 1,000 prisoners with the other. The negotiations lasted for an hour and forty minutes, and were mediated by the Turks. The negotiators of the two countries reportedly discussed a potential ceasefire, prisoner exchanges, and a meeting between Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russia’s President...

May 15 from https://www.theamericanconservative.com/ Right

TAC Right Now: Trump-Netanyahu Tensions, Russia-Ukraine Talks

Contrary to the gloom emanating from European capitals, the Russia–Ukraine meeting was a promising step toward an end to the war.

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