U.S. President Donald Trump's August summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage, Alaska, is looming large as the White House presses its latest effort to secure a peace deal ending Moscow's full-scale invasion of neighboring Ukraine.

Officials say Trump has offered 'platinum standard' security guarantees but Moscow is expected to reject terms

The head of Britain’s MI6 spy agency says Russian President Vladimir Putin is stalling efforts to end Russia’s war on Ukraine, and is testing the West with tactics that fall “just below the threshold of war.

A draft peace plan discussed with the U.S. during talks in Berlin on Monday is “not perfect” but is “very workable,” the Ukrainian president told reporters.

The latest proposal is designed to deter future Russian aggression. But Russia is not part of the talks and has shown little willingness to negotiate.

Putin's generals have amassed around 155,000 troops in the Pokrovsk sector, as they desperately to try to achieve a breakthrough.

The new chief of Britain’s foreign intelligence service MI6 accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of deliberately prolonging negotiations to put an end to the war in Ukraine, in an assessment that complicates President Donald Trump’s efforts to broker a deal by year-end.

Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner and envoy Steve Witkoff will meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Tuesday for high-stakes talks on ending the war in Ukraine.The meeting -- preceded by days of frenzied diplomacy from Florida to Geneva to Abu Dhabi -- comes as Washington said it was "very optimistic" about ending Europe's bloodiest conflict since World War II.

Vladimir Putin says Russia needs to discuss President Trump's Ukraine peace proposal seriously as U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff prepares to visit Moscow.

Russia has reportedly said it is open to allowing Ukraine to join the European Union as part of a potential peace deal, according to US officials working with both countries