President-elect Donald Trump has pledged to broker a peace deal in Ukraine, but as he prepares to take office, peace seems as elusive as ever.Moscow and Kyiv are seeking battlefield gains to strengthen their negotiating positions ahead of any prospective talks to end the 3-year-old war.

President Donald Trump is threatening to impose stiff taxes, tariffs and sanctions on Russia if an agreement isn’t reached to end the war in Ukraine.

President Trump said Tuesday it was likely he would impose additional sanctions on Russia if it did not come to the negotiating table to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine. “Sounds likely,” Trump said of potential sanctions on Moscow.

In one of his first foreign policy moves since taking office, President Donald Trump is threatening financial repercussions against Russia over its ongoing war in Ukraine.

Russia has had battlefield momentum but its recent territorial gains have been at the expense of high personnel losses.

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday (Jan 22) he would add new tariffs to his sanctions threat against Russia if the country does not make a deal to end its war in Ukraine, and added that these could also be applied to "other participating countries.

Kyiv region. A Russian ballistic missile strike in Ukraine's capital on the morning of January 18 killed three people and wounded three others. Dnipropetrovsk region. On the morning of January 17, a Russian missile attack on the region's second-biggest city, home to more than 500,000 residents, killed four people and wounded 14 others.

US President Donald Trump threatened to impose sanctions on Russia over the war in Ukraine and called on the Kremlin to stop the conflict in a post on Truth Social on Wednesday. "STOP this ridiculous War!

Trump says Putin not doing well in Ukraine as Moscow suffers 2,000 losses in a day - Trump’s remarks come as Zelensky warns that Ukraine will not join Nato unless US president supports Kyiv’s bid

Drug traffickers have reportedly rerouted the traffic from Ukraine’s Odesa port to elsewhere in Russia because of Moscow’s invasion, a Russian media source reported.

Trump is threatening unspecified sanctions on Moscow if Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t come to the negotiating table ‘soon’