The American president’s latest remarks embracing Vladimir Putin’s narrative that Ukraine is to blame for the war have compounded the sense of alarm among traditional allies.

European leaders were shocked by the hostility of JD Vance’s scathing speech in Munich criticizing Europe’s exclusion of far-right groups from power.

A group of European leaders agreed at a meeting in Paris on Monday they were ready to give Ukraine security guarantees, but it would be dangerous to conclude a ceasefire without a peace agreement at the same time,

At the end of the Cold War, President George H.W. Bush managed the fall of the Soviet Union and its satellite states in Eastern Europe — sometimes overruling regional leaders in the wider interests of the West and their own security. There’s no sign that Trump feels any such affinity for Europe or its future.

Stunned by President Trump’s outreach to Russia over Ukraine, European leaders are groping for common ground.

Donald Trump has signalled there should be elections in Ukraine as part of a peace deal with Russia, in his first public remarks after the US held high-level talks with Moscow in Riyadh. In remarks critical of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s handling of the war,