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Tuesday, 9 Dec 2025

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Quality of mediation is a major issue in the Ukraine peace process

The ongoing talks between the US, Russian and Ukrainian teams of negotiators may yet produce a “peace deal” – so desired by President Donald Trump – by the end of the tumultuous year 2025, or at least before the disastrous war comes to the four-year mark.

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Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025

Special Envoy Steve Witkoff in August 2025 in Alaska. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Flaws in Putin’s art of no-deal for peace become apparent

In November, a 28-point U.S.–Russia draft peace proposal was leaked that heavily favored Moscow, sparking backlash from Ukraine and the European Union.

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Quality of mediation is a major issue in the Ukraine peace process

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Tuesday, 2 Dec 2025

Flaws in Putin’s art of no-deal for peace become apparent

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Putin's elites could become proponents of peace

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Wednesday, 12 Nov 2025

Vladimir Putin at the joint press conference with Donald Trump after their meeting on war in Ukraine in Alaska in August 2025. Photo: Getty Images

Talks on peace deal for war against Ukraine can still rebound

The failed Russian plan to organize a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in Budapest was so significant that any prospect of bringing the war against Ukraine to an end any time soon appeared to disappear.

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