After weeks of speculation, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced a government reorganisation naming Defence Minister Rustem Umerov as the next US ambassador and economist Yulia

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni told U.S. President Donald Trump that the determination shown by the U.S. toward Iran should also be applied to ending Russia's war against Ukraine, she said on June 25 on the sidelines of the NATO summit in The Hague.

President Zelenskyy taps economy minister to lead gov’t in most significant reshuffle since Russian full-scale invasion.

As Ukraine’s former Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba noted in Foreign Affairs in late May, neither Russia nor Ukraine “has much of an incentive to stop the fighting.” Ukraine refuses to surrender its sovereignty;

President Donald Trump reaffirms the US commitment to supply weapons to Ukraine, with high-level military talks scheduled. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy highlights restored aid amid calls for Russian sanctions,

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When Sergiy Kyslytsya returned to Kyiv in February 2025 to take on the role of first deputy foreign minister after serving as Ukraine’s ambassador to the United Nations, he brought with him expertise essential to modern Ukrainian diplomacy.

Ukraine has been at war for more than a decade. The task of rebuilding the country and healing its people is likely to take even longer.

As the war between Russia and Ukraine enters its 129th week, both sides continue to suffer heavy losses, while the

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius visits Washington to discuss U.S. arms supplies to Ukraine, missile deployment plans, and American troop levels in Europe. Amidst fluctuating U.S. foreign policies,