War in Ukraine

Analysis

On the ground

Ukrainecast

Victoria, Vitaly and James discuss Trump 2.0, Zelensky, Putin and prospects for peace
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  1. Donald Trump

  2. Photo purportedly showing a civilian bus destroyed in a Russian drone attack in Ukraine's north-eastern Sumy region. Photo: 17 May 2025

  3. Delegates from Turkey, Ukraine and Russia sit at a table with flags behind and flower arrangements in front of them

  4. Oscar Jenkins in a Russian-controlled court in Luhansk in a picture provided by the region's prosecutor's office

  5. US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks to press following a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Turkey

  6. U.S. President Donald Trump talks to reporters aboard Air Force One.

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

  8. Vladimir Putin speaking at a news conference

  9. Two men load a Caesar gun near the front line in Ukraine

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

  11. A woman sat down holding a young girl has her hand covering her face

  12. Combination file photos of Russian President Vladimir Putin (left) and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky (right)

  13. Volodymyr Zelensky. The Ukrainian president is bearded, wearing a black top and is gesturing with his left hand as he speaks from inside a building in front of a Ukrainian flag

  14. Russian President Vladimir Putin gives a statement to the media at the Kremlin in Moscow

  15. President Trump in profile wearing suit standing beside Zelensky in dark clothes

  16. Volodymyr Zelensky looks to his left in a meeting room, wearing a black t-shirt and dark jacket.

  17. Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Volodymir Zelensky in Kyiv, 10 may

  18. UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer speaks to reporters in Kyiv

  19. Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer wearing a black zip-up jacket sits at a wooden table with French President Emanuel Macron, in white shirt and hoodie, and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, in blue jumper and shirt, on board a train to the Ukrainian capital Kyiv where all three will hold meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky

  20. Putin shakes hands with men wearing military dress uniform in Red Square

  21. A black and white oil tanker, suspected of being part of Russia's 'shadow fleet', sails on the ocean.

  22. A Ukrainian soldier wears camouflage and looks directly into the camera. He has a brown hoody underneath a dark green bulletproof vest and wears a bucket hat. He has a beard and moustache and wears a forlorn expression.