{"id":200672,"date":"2026-02-17T02:39:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:39:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-ukraine-must-reach-a-deal-with-russia-fast-says-president-before-trilateral-talks-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T02:39:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T02:39:04","slug":"trump-news-at-a-glance-ukraine-must-reach-a-deal-with-russia-fast-says-president-before-trilateral-talks-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/trump-news-at-a-glance-ukraine-must-reach-a-deal-with-russia-fast-says-president-before-trilateral-talks-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump news at a glance: Ukraine must reach a deal with Russia \u2018fast\u2019, says president before trilateral talks – The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Kushner will meet delegates from Russia and Ukraine in Geneva. Key US politics stories from 16 February at a glance
Donald Trump has piled pressure on Ukraine to reach a deal with Russia \u201cfast\u201d before US-brokered talks in Geneva on Tuesday. \u201cUkraine better come to the table, fast,\u201d the US president told reporters onboard Air Force One while en route to Washington.
Trump is pushing to end the conflict, which began when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, but two previous rounds of US-mediated talks in Abu Dhabi did not yield any signs of a breakthrough.
Moscow has stuck to its demands in the talks for sweeping territorial and political concessions from Ukraine \u2013 rejected by Kyiv as tantamount to capitulation.
Trump\u2019s top envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner will be in the US delegation, while the former Russian culture minister Vladimir Medinsky will lead Moscow\u2019s team.
The talks, brokered by the Trump administration<\/a>, will take place days before the fourth anniversary of Moscow\u2019s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. Despite renewed US efforts to revive diplomacy, hopes for any sudden breakthrough remain low.
Trump, who throughout his second presidency has veered between criticising Moscow and Kyiv, reverted this weekend to placing blame on Volodymyr Zelenskyy<\/a>, suggesting Ukraine was holding up efforts to end the war.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump has vented his fury against a green energy deal between the British government and California\u2019s governor, Gavin Newsom, a likely future Democratic presidential candidate<\/a>.
\u201cThe UK\u2019s got enough trouble without getting involved with Gavin Newscum,\u201d Trump said in an interview with Politico,<\/a> using the derogatory nickname he reserves for Newsom. \u201cGavin is a loser. Everything he\u2019s touched turns to garbage. His state has gone to hell, and his environmental work is a disaster.\u201d
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump\u2019s most unbridled critics at this weekend\u2019s Munich Security Conference were not Europeans but Americans \u2013 and not just Democratic politicians.
A few Republicans, out of earshot of the US president\u2019s favoured Fox News, have had the courage to challenge Trump\u2019s diet of tariffs and unpredictability.
The criticism ends what little remained of the tradition that the US delegation to the conference limits criticism of the commander-in-chief abroad.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
Donald Trump is committed to the success of the Hungarian prime minister, Viktor Orb\u00e1n, because his leadership is crucial for US national interests, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, has said.
\u201cPresident Trump is deeply committed to your success, because your success is our success,\u201d Rubio said, standing next to Orb\u00e1n at a joint press conference in Budapest.\u00a0
Watch the full video<\/sub><\/a>
John Paulson, a hedge fund billionaire and one of Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s earliest Wall Street backers, is planning to move an Ohio<\/a> manufacturing plant to China<\/a> despite heavy pushback from employees.
Workers at the plant have called the relocation \u201ca slap in our face\u201d, after Paulson vocally defended domestic manufacturing, and are fighting to keep the plant open.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
UK bank bosses will hold their first meeting to establish a national alternative to Visa and Mastercard amid growing fears over Donald Trump\u2019s ability to turn off US-owned payment systems.
Read the full story<\/sub><\/a>
The family of a self-identified \u201cTrump Republican\u201d running for office in Texas bought Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s New Mexico ranch<\/a><\/strong> <\/a>where the sex trafficker abused teenage girls and young women, according to new documents.
As federal immigration agents flooded the streets of Minneapolis<\/a>, Chicago and Los Angeles<\/a>, many cities began to develop new \u2013 and creative \u2013 tactics to prepare for and push back against ICE. Lex McMenamin took a look at a few.<\/a><\/strong>
Rights groups have sued to protect voter information that was seized by the FBI in a <\/a><\/strong>raid in Georgia<\/a><\/strong> at the behest of Donald Trump<\/a> in his renewed push to invalidate the 2020 election.
Catching up? Here\u2019s what happened on 15 February 2026<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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