LONDON (AP) — The Russia-Ukraine war has seen almost four years of failed peace plans, blueprints and high-level summits. A new U.S. push to end the fighting has set off the latest flurry of diplomacy, with American, European, Russian and Ukrainian officials all trying to shape the outcome of Europe’s deadliest conflict since World War II.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is sending special envoy Steve Witkoff to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow next week, which the Kremlin confirmed, as momentum builds to end the war in Ukraine.

President Donald Trump’s chief interlocutor with the Russian government last month advised a senior aide to Vladimir Putin on how the Russian leader should go about pitching the U.S. president on a peace plan aimed at bringing an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine,

The youngest-ever US army secretary has been thrust into the spotlight as the face of renewed efforts to end the years-long war.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy shared a lengthy response after Trump blamed Ukrainian leadership for its “violent and terrible” war with Russia.

Monday's call was the latest in a flurry of diplomatic and trade parries between the U.S. and China over tariffs and technology export restrictions.