Live updates and the latest news as U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin discuss the war in Ukraine and Tennessee holds a special congressional election.

As the Trump administration rushes to secure a peace deal to end the war in Ukraine, President Donald Trump is dispatching two of his highest profile diplomats to Moscow.

Italy's government is set to approve a parliamentary decree that will allow it to continue supplying military equipment to Ukraine to support its war effort against Russia, a government document showed on Tuesday.

As Steve Witkoff meets with Putin over a Ukraine deal, security assurances remain a sticking point. Ukraine has been offered them before, to little avail.

US President Donald Trump expressed optimism after a high-level meeting between US officials and a Ukrainian delegation in Miami on Sunday, suggesting there was a “good chance” of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.

The presidents of Ukraine and Russia are expected to be briefed this week on outcomes of Sunday's U.S.-Ukraine talks.

Ellie Cohanim, former State Department deputy special envoy, joined 'Fox & Friends First' to discuss the Trump administration's crackdown on narco-terrorism and the effort to broker peace in Ukraine.

The former Ukraine ambassador to the U.S. will now serve as an adviser to Kyiv’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, the Ukrainian leader said on Sunday. Oksana Markarova served as Ukraine’s envoy to Washington from 2021 until August 2025.