U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday that NATO membership for Ukraine was unrealistic and in sweeping remarks ...

Russia first invaded Crimea, a peninsula on Ukraine's Black Sea coastline, in 2014 before launching its wider invasion nearly ...

US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said on Wednesday that the war between Ukraine and Russia “must end,” that Kyiv joining ...

The defense secretary's remarks further demonstrated the Trump administration's belief that Ukraine will have to cede territory to negotiate an end to the war.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and his government in Kyiv have demanded full territorial liberation -- whether by military or ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is on the first trip to NATO by a member of the new Trump administration. Washington's 31 ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has announced a major shift in U.S. policy on Ukraine: The way forward, he told allies in ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the U.S. has ruled out NATO membership for Ukraine as part of any peace deal with Russia.

Speaking at a NATO meeting in Belgium, the defense secretary said the U.S. would no longer tolerate an imbalanced ...

Pete Hegseth said NATO membership for Ukraine is unrealistic and that it should prepare for a negotiated settlement with ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent visited Kyiv on Wednesday to discuss a critical minerals deal as Ukraine vies to win ...

Pete Hegseth, the US defence secretary, has said it is "unrealistic" to expect Ukraine to return to its pre-2014 borders, when Russia first took control of Crimea.