Analysis: Starmer is right to call for peace not a ceasefire in Ukraine and that could set him on a collision with Trump and test the ‘special relationship’, world affairs editor Sam Kiley writes

World affairs editor Sam Kiley tackles your queries on how Trump's return to power, Europe’s security commitments, and the ongoing conflict with Russia will shape global diplomacy

The British prime minister has been more barn owl than barn stormer in the White House – but it worked, writes World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley

Hopes raised of commercial deal as Macron meets president for talks on peace and European security

The Independent’s world affairs editor Sam Kiley explains what the latest developments mean for Ukraine, Russia, and the wider global order – and to answer your questions on where the war goes next

There is a rapidly evolving pan-European effort to gently massage Donald Trump’s ego as talks between Europe, US, Ukraine and Russia reach a crucial stage

On the third anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, frontline soldiers tell world affairs editor Sam Kiley that it’s Russia that should be suing for peace

Donald Trump is singing the same song as the Kremlin, The Independent world affairs editor Sam Kiley told Newsnight on Tuesday, 18 February.

As Moscow says Nato troops in Ukraine are ‘unacceptable’ we look at whether it is even realistic for the UK to help keep the peace

US secretary of state Marco Rubio led the US delegation meeting with their Russian counterparts in Saudi Arabia – but so far, Europe and Ukraine have been frozen out

Putin's foreign policy adviser Yuri Ushakov and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, national security adviser Mike Waltz and Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff

Keir Starmer is joining Emmanuel Macron and other leaders in Paris amid concerns Europe and Ukraine itself are being frozen out of discussions

Analysis: There has been no invitation for Ukraine, nor for Europe, to join the talks planned for US and Russian officials in Saudi Arabia, writes Sam Kiley

The world is seeing a repeat of Munich 1938, Ukrainians tell world affairs editor Sam Kiley – who recently returned from the country – as they express disgust at Trump’s latest intervention

Pete Hegseth told Nato defence ministers the US won’t support Nato membership for Ukraine, or most of its peace talks platform, leaving Zelensky little room to negotiate, writes World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley

Ukraine’s $1.3bn drone war is now being led by a rap artist who has been fighting on the frontline – and in his music - since the start of the war, Sam Kiley reports

As Gazans return to their bombed-out homes, US president says he wants ‘long-term ownership’, to relocate inhabitants and transform territory into ‘Riviera of Middle East’

Swarms of Iranian-made Russian Shahed unmanned drones target Ukraine almost every night – it is up to these men and their World War Two-style machine guns to shoot the UAVs out of the sky. World Affairs Editor Sam Kiley reports from the Kyiv region

The North Korean troops fighting for Russia are highly trained and will stop at nothing to avoid surrender, Ukrainian sources tell Sam Kiley, The Independent’s World Affairs Editor, in Sumy

Kyiv’s residents know the incoming president is no particular friend, writes Sam Kiley in the Ukrainian capital – but they hope he has the sense not to offer any advantage to the Russian leader