For the past four years, Russia has stuck by a single set of demands for ending its war in Ukraine.

European leaders were set to meet in South Africa on Saturday to hash out alternatives to a U.S. plan to halt Russia's war in Ukraine seen as favoring Moscow, nearly four years after it invaded its ne...

The proposal offers plenty of carrots for Russia: the cancelling of Western sanctions; a welcome back into the G 8 club of powerful economies; de facto recognition of control over land it has occupied...