War in Ukraine

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  1. Trump and Putin

  2. John Healey wearing a dark suit with a red tie

  3. In Kyiv, Ukraine, on August 15, 2025, families of Ukrainian prisoners of war and activists hold a rally outside the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv under the slogan ''Prisoner exchange, not territories'' ahead of the Trump-Putin talks.

  4. Map of Ukraine overlaid with the national flag colours - blue on top and yellow on the bottom. Stylised black-and-white headshots of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, both in suits and looking serious, are on either side of the map.

  5. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the garden of number 10 Downing Street. They sit on a green sofa in front of a wooden table with a glass vase filled with yellow sunflowers and blue flowers, representing the colours of the Ukrainian flag. They have matching Downing Street mugs and Sir Keir is raising his as he talks to Zelensky with serious expressions on their faces.

  6. A woman with blonde hair in a Ukrainian flag holds a a boy in her arms

  7. Smoke rises from burnt-out cars which are scattered across a road in Druzhkivka, in the Donetsk region of Ukraine

  8. Putin whispering in Trump's ear

  9. A composite image of Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin with BBC Verify branding

  10. Split screen with Donald Trump (L) and Vladimir Putin (R)

  11. A Ukrainian soldier with the nickname Dragon shows the fatigue of months of fighting without a break, as the rest of the tank crew make adjustments to a captured Russian T-72B tank, as they drive it toward the northeastern Kharkiv region frontline on a road to Izyum, Ukraine, on September 28, 2022

  12. A teenage woman with long red hair and glasses looks at the camera. She is wearing a lanyard around her neck. In the background is a classroom environment with other students.

  13. A map showing Alaska circled in red

  14. Car hit by drone seen with all its doors open surrounded by smoke

  15. This combination of pictures created on February 21, 2020 shows US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, in a close shot.

  16. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, right, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in front of German, Ukrainian and EU flags, after a press conference

    • BBC World Service

  18. Women walk among remains of residential buildings destroyed by shelling, as Russias invasion of Ukraine continues, in Zhytomyr

  19. Trump and Putin

  20. President Zelensky in his trademark black top holding his hands up in front of a Ukrainian glad and two paintings on a dark blue wall

  21. Russian President Vladimir Putin shakes hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un during their meeting in Pyongyang, North Korea, 19 June 2024.