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U.S. President Donald Trump said he will meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin next Friday in Alaska to discuss ending the war in Ukraine, a potential breakthrough after weeks of expressing frustration that more was not being done to quell the fighting. The Kremlin has not yet confirmed the details, …
Read More »Kremlin confirms that Putin, Trump expected to meet in coming days
Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump will meet in the coming days, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Thursday, in what would be the first summit between leaders of the two countries since 2021. “At the suggestion of the American side, an agreement was essentially reached to …
Read More »Trump’s Ukraine weapons pivot shows he’s frustrated with Putin. But he’s not applying maximum pressure yet
As Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office on Monday and announced that NATO would be buying U.S. weapons and shipping them to Kyiv, it was a major pivot for the U.S. president and for an administration that just two weeks ago halted the supply of some military hardware, including …
Read More »Macron rejects Trump’s plan for Greenland, proposal for Putin to mediate Israel-Iran crisis
French President Emmanuel Macron, during a visit to Greenland to offer his support to the Arctic island, said on Sunday that Russia lacked the credibility to mediate the crisis between Israel and Iran, as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested. In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Trump said …
Read More »Putin ‘needlessly killing a lot of people,’ Trump says, as Russia continues drone onslaught in Ukraine
The Ukrainian air force said Russia had launched 355 drones and nine cruise missiles against Ukraine overnight, a huge salvo that the air force’s spokesperson told Reuters made it Russia’s largest drone attack of the war to date. The Ukrainian air force said the third consecutive night of Russian aerial …
Read More »Trump hopes for Russia-Ukraine ceasefire progress ahead of calls with Putin, Zelenskyy
President Donald Trump hopes separate phone calls Monday with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will make progress toward a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine. Trump expressed his hopes for a “productive day” Monday — and a ceasefire — in a social media post over the …
Read More »Putin has more to gain by not showing up to ceasefire talks, Russia watchers say
When Ukraine’s president arrives in Turkey, Volodymyr Zelenskyy will meet with the country’s leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan, but a key part of the trip is to send the message that he is ready for face-to-face talks with Vladimir Putin, even if the Russian president isn’t. On Thursday, Turkey will host the …
Read More »Putin, Trump won’t be in Turkey for proposed direct talks between Russia-Ukraine
U.S. President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will not attend what could be the first direct peace talks between Moscow and Kyiv in three years on Thursday. Putin on Sunday proposed direct negotiations with Ukraine in Turkey “without any preconditions,” though he stopped short of saying he would …
Read More »Ukraine, Russia appear set to engage in Istanbul-hosted talks without Zelenskyy, Putin
Ukraine will send a delegation to Istanbul, led by Defence Minister Rustem Umerov, to attend talks with a team from Russia, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Thursday after holding talks in Ankara with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Zelenskyy, who has called for an unconditional 30-day ceasefire in the war …
Read More »Thanks to Trump and Putin, Europe needs to rearm quickly. But can it catch up fast enough?
The gold leaf halls of Paris’s Luxembourg Palace have witnessed countless stirring moments of oratory in the roughly 200 years that it has hosted French senators and other parliamentarians, but the moment that stands out of late belongs to Claude Malhuret and his incendiary takedown of U.S. President Donald Trump. …
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