Get live updates and the latest news as Trump's NATO comments rankle members and the president disinvites Canada's Mark Carney from his Gaza Board of Peace.

The U.S.-led push to end Russia’s nearly 4-year-old war in Ukraine gained momentum late last year and is moving ahead in 2026, with leaders, diplomats and envoys traveling to a flurry of meetings to discuss a potential deal.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the future of Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region will be a key focus as negotiators from Ukraine, Russia and the United States meet in Abu Dhabi on Friday for talks to end Russia’s nearly four-year full scale invasion

Trump - who held a signing ceremony for his new board in Davos - is due to meet Ukraine's President Zelensky later, while his envoys are in Russia.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday after talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in Davos that the terms of security guarantees for Ukraine had been finalised, but that the vital issue of territory in its war with Russia remains unsolved.

U.S. President Donald Trump used the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to unveil a proposed “ Board of Peace ” for Gaza, bringing leaders from more than a dozen countries onstage Thursday, although many top American allies aren’t participating in the board.

Maxim Timchenko, CEO of Ukrainian energy company DTEK, speaks to CNBC ahead of President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s meeting with Donald Trump in Davos.