Advisers to President-elect Donald Trump now concede that the Ukraine war will take months or even longer to resolve, a sharp reality check on his biggest foreign policy promise - to strike a peace deal on his first day in the White House.

Russia welcomes signals coming from President-elect Donald Trump over the Ukraine conflict, less than a week before the Republican takes office.

Trump says he will meet Putin after his inauguration, citing Putin's disappointment with the Ukraine war. Trump's national security advisor anticipates a call between the two leaders in the near future.

Russia is prepared to study U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's peace initiatives on Ukraine when he takes office next week, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Tuesday. Lavrov cautioned that Trump's comments on the war - which he previously said he could end within 24 hours of entering the White House - were being made before his inauguration,