War in Ukraine

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On the ground

What's in the leaked US-Russia peace plan?

Ukraine's President Zelensky says he will "propose alternatives"
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    A composite photo of Witkoff and Putin

  2. Ireland's Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Micheal Martin shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky at Government buildings during an Irish State visit, in Dublin, Ireland. Martin (left) is wearing a navy suit. Zelensky (Right) is dressed all in black. They are standing at Government of Ireland microphone podiums.

  3. President Putin

  4. Denys, sitting on a train, looks down away from the camera, lips downturned. He is wearing military fatigues.

  5. Nonkululeko Patricia Mantula, wearing a headwrap, large beaded orange, red earrings and a leather jacket look on in court.

  6. Stylised image showing a map of Ukraine overlaid with images of tanks and a soldier holding a shoulder launcher

  7. A still image taken from a handout video made available by the Russian Presidential Press Service (Kremlin.ru) shows Russian President Vladimir Putin visiting a command post for the joint force grouping of Russian Army

  8. Ukrainian President Zelensky pictured in a black coat or jacket in Paris on 1 December.

  9. A man in blue suit, white shirt and red tie stands close to a man in a dark jacket.

  10. A large tanker with orange flames raging and smoke spiralling, in the night.

  11. Smoke rises from two burnt-out cars in front of a shopping centre in Kyiv.

  12. Zelensky and Yermak walking along, there's snow on the ground behind them

  13. Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban shake hands during a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, 28 November 2025.

  14. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and Head of the Presidential Office Andriy Yermak walk, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine January 22, 2024.

  15. Duduzile Zuma-Sambudla with long braids and wearing a camouflage bomber jacket over a black T-shirt is seen during a MK party media conference in Johannesburg in 2024. Behind her can be see the green and black MK party logo.

  16. Older woman with grey hair in blue jacket and an older man in a yellow jacket smiling together with a rural backdrop including a lake and hills.

  17. Vladimir Putin

  18. Chris Parry is looking towards the camera and has his right arm stretched out as if he is taking a selfie. He is wearing a dark green fleece top with a green khaki bullet proof vest over it and is sitting in the front seat of a vehicle. There is a box of equipment on the back left hand seat.

  19. Two judokas wrestle on the floor with five Olympic rings on a red mat

  20. Demonstrators march through the streets of Tbilisi on Nov. 23, 2025, to mark the 22nd anniversary of Georgia's Rose Revolution

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  22. Soldiers stand with guns besiude a ruined building.

  23. A woman with blonde hair and wearing an olive green jacket and a necklace talks into two microphones

  24. US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on board Air Force One