President Donald Trump assumes mediator role as talks with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy focus on a U.S.-backed 20-point peace plan that could end the war in Ukraine.

In the dead of night during the holidays, the US military launched an operation in Caracas, sanctioned by President Trump, and captured Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores. Maduro is set to face drugs and weapons charges in a Manhattan federal court next week.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is set to attend a high-stakes summit with the Coalition of the Willing in Paris to finalise concrete security guarantees for Ukraine in the ongoing Russia war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed he and his allies will finally "stop" Russian President Vladimir Putin and the ongoing war between the nations.

Vladimir Putin does not want peace and instead intends to go further, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, according to Zelenskyy’s interview with Fox News. In response to a question about whether there are any signs that Vladimir Putin wants peace,

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in his Christmas wish has wished for Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin's 'death'., World News, Times Now

"It’s very close," Trump said of the peace deal, acknowledging that negotiations might not produce results. "It’s possible it doesn’t happen."

While reacting to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy urged the United States to detain his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russia lost over 20,000 kilometers of strategic buffer space, leaving it exposed from the Baltics to Central Asia. Putin calls this the “greatest geopolitical disaster of the 20th century,