The United States is pushing back against language in a Group of Seven statement portraying Russia as the aggressor in its ongoing war in Ukraine, the Financial Times reported Friday, citing sources close to the matter.

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Ukraine has rejected a U.S. proposal to own about 50% of the country's rare earth minerals, the Financial Times reported Saturday, as President Volodymyr Zelenskyy looks to negotiate a better deal. U.

The talks between Russia and the US over negotiating the end of the Ukraine war make the front of several newspapers. The Financial Times calls it an "extraordinary turn of events in a matter of days",

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An economic partnership between Ukraine and the U.S. would benefit both countries, U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wrote in an opinion piece for the Financial Times on Saturday.

The country is torn over whether it could keep fighting without American support. Alec Russell reports from Kyiv on the stresses of a nation under siege

“The minerals agreement is only part of the picture. We have heard multiple times from the US administration that it’s part of a bigger picture,” Olha Stefanishyna, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister and justice minister who has led the negotiations, told the Financial Times on Tuesday.

Vladimir Putin has described initial contacts with the Trump administration as “inspiring a certain degree of hope”, his most positive remarks since US-Russia talks began on ending the war in Ukraine.

Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof reaffirmed his support for Ukraine as “firmly as ever”, as he follows other European leaders in backing Kyiv after a disastrous meeting on Friday between US President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

Donald Trump appeared to blame Ukraine for the war with Russia and signalled Kyiv should hold elections, hours after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh.