Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy, will travel to Paris this week for talks with European allies on U.S. efforts to negotiate a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine.

The US president apportioned blame to Ukraine's leader hours after the deadliest strike on civilians this year.

The war began when Russia invaded Ukraine. But in the Oval Office, President Trump lit into Biden and Zelenskyy and said: "Everybody's to blame."

The possibility of sanctions being eased and an end to the war in Ukraine has some Western businesses and investors eying opportunities in Russia

By Arnaud Bertrand in Switzerland Fundamentally, the extreme tariffs on China are the exact same mistake as the sanctions on Russia and will have the same principal effect: to prove in the eyes of the world the impotence of the United States.

China on Thursday said that if the United States continues to play the "tariff numbers game", it will pay no attention to it, reported Reuters. China's foreign ministry made the comment in response to the White House's statement that China faces tariffs of up to 245% due to its retaliatory action.