BRITISH troops are being readied to deploy to Ukraine with peace talks now more advanced than ever, the UK’s Defence Secretary has declared. The US-led push for an end to the gruelling

Two days of talks between President Volodymyr Zelensky and allies have brought some progress on security guarantees, but Russia remains opposed to any foreign forces in Ukraine.

Amid intense international diplomacy aimed at ending the war by year's end, the stakes were high as European leaders joined a summit in Berlin.

Ukraine is preparing to present a revised peace plan to the White House, as it seeks to avoid making territorial concessions to Russia. Kyiv is set to propose alternatives after President Volodymyr Zelensky again ruled out surrendering land, saying he had "no right" to do so under Ukrainian or international law.

But Ukraine’s leader griped that overall, the negotiations aimed at ending Kremlin’s deadly aggression aren’t about giving his people a “fair” deal.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with European leaders in London today after talks between US and Ukrainian negotiators came to a halt with no breakthrough. Follow for live updates

President Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Russian negotiations position "has not changed yet," and that "they want our Donbas. And we do not want to give away our Donbas." Zelensky's comments to journalists late on Dec.