US President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin are expected to speak this week, officials said on Sunday, as Washington and Kyiv’s European allies press Moscow to accept a ceasefire in the three-year war. The United States this week proposed a halt in fighting in the war after...
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Russia has said that Zelensky’s peace talk offer was a positive and welcomed idea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s stated willingness to negotiate for peace, calling it a “positive’’ step. But Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov questioned the practicality of such talks, noting that Zelensky had legally barred negotiations with Russian...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s rudeness toward U.S. President Donald Trump may put an end to relations between Kiev and Washington, Viktor Medvedchuk, has said. The former leader of the banned Ukrainian Opposition Platform For Life (OPFL) party and chairman of the council of the Other Ukraine movement, said this...
French President Emmanuel Macron will use his upcoming trip to the White House to try and convince U.S. President Donald Trump to align with European allies. Macron is expected to meet with Trump on Monday to discuss the situation in Ukraine. During an online question and answer session on...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has said he was willing to talk to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. Russian media reported this on Tuesday, citing Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov. Peskov said Putin has repeatedly expressed his willingness to hold such talks but has raised doubts...
China has endorsed the proposed talks between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin regarding the resolution of Russia’s war against Ukraine. “Russia and the U.S. are both influential powers, and China welcomes their efforts to strengthen communication and dialogue on a range of international issues,” a...
Russia has said that it would not withdraw or cancel its conditions for resuming strategic stability talks with the United States (U.S.). Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said on Monday. “The president said what he said. The president did not say that we are canceling everything that we...
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has said that both he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would like to meet as soon as he takes office. “And I know he (Putin) wants to meet, and I’m going to meet him very quickly. “I would have done it sooner ,but you have...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that by providing Ukraine with long-range weapons, Western countries risk involving directly in the Russia-Ukraine conflict. In such circumstances, Russia would be forced to make “appropriate decisions” based on the new threats, Putin said. Ukraine has been pleading with its Western allies for...
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken indicated on Wednesday that the U.S. could tolerate Ukraine using Western weapons against military targets in Russia. During a news conference in Moldova, Blinken said that the U.S. government had neither enabled nor encouraged attacks with U.S. weapons on targets outside Ukraine....
Putin is nearby. Precisely, Russia’s ambitious global influencer of illiberal order has docked next door. In Niger Republic to be exact. At the end of April, the military junta in Niger kicked out the American military advisers and tiny troop contingent from their country. Earlier, they had forced...
Leading Russian opposition figure, Alexei Navalny has died in prison, state news agency TASS reported on Friday, citing the prison authorities. Navalny, 47, collapsed on Friday after a walk in his penal colony in the northern Russian region of Yamal and immediately lost consciousness, the report said, adding...
Russia fired cruise and ballistic missiles at Ukraine on Thursday morning, striking facilities in several cities across the country, Ukrainian authorities said. At least one person was injured in the southern city of Zaporizhzhia, where a missile hit an industrial site, said the head of the regional military...
Russia once again hit Ukraine with drone strikes early on Friday, causing a major power outage in the industrial city of Kryvyi Rih, which is the birth place of President Volodymyr Zelensky. Tens of thousands of households and numerous companies in the city in the south-east of the...
Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov says a new world order is being born through a struggle between a neocolonial minority and a “global majority” seeking to end decades of western domination. Lavrov said this in his statement to the 78th session of the UN General Assembly on Saturday....
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine told world leaders in the UN General Assembly that alongside its ongoing nuclear threat, Russia is also weaponising essentials like global food and energy markets, and using them “not only against our country, but all of yours as well.” Since the start...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said it would be possible to negotiate a solution for Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in 2014, rather than using force. “When we are at the administrative borders of Crimea, I think it is possible politically to force the demilitarisation of Russia...
There is no doubt that the sanctions imposed on Niger by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) in response to the 26 July military coup that toppled the government of elected President Mohamed Bazoum, are biting hard, especially the suspension of electricity supply by Nigeria. After...