Russia has rejected the possible deployment of NATO peacekeepers in Ukraine, suggesting unarmed observers or a civilian monitoring group sent there to oversee a potential peace deal. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Alexander Grushko said the discussions on peacekeeping efforts in Ukraine remain premature and should only take place after...
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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...
U.S. billionaire, Elon Musk has emphasised the importance of his Starlink satellite system for Ukrainian troops fighting Russia. The Starlink system is the backbone of the Ukrainian army. Their entire front line will collapse if I turned it off, Musk, a close adviser to U.S. President Donald Trump, wrote...
U.S. President Donald Trump has caused a stir by suggesting that Ukraine may not survive the war with Russia. In an interview with Fox News that aired on Sunday, the U.S. president was asked whether he was comfortable with the fact that he had stopped aid to the country...
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...
US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky clashed in an extraordinary shouting match in the Oval Office Friday, leaving efforts to end the war with Russia hanging in the balance. “You’re either going to make a deal or we’re out,” a furious Trump told Zelensky, as a...
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...
European leaders gathered on Monday for an emergency summit to discuss plans by U.S. President Donald Trump to end the war in Ukraine. There are fears that they might be frozen out of the negotiations. The goal is to agree on a common strategy for dealing with Trump, including...
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...
U.S. President has threatened the BRICS group of emerging economies with tariffs of 100 per cent if they move away from the U.S. dollar as an international means of payment. “The idea that the BRICS Countries are trying to move away from the Dollar, while we stand by and...
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...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that he was ready for talks with US counterpart Donald Trump on the Ukraine conflict, fuelling expectations of contact between the two world leaders. “As for the issue of negotiations… we have always said, and I want to emphasise this once again,...
A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow on Tuesday by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service. The assassination is considered the most high-profile killing of its kind. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov, who was chief of...
Ukraine said on Friday it had received the bodies of 563 soldiers from Russian authorities, mainly troops that had died in combat in the eastern Donetsk region. The exchange of prisoners and bodies of killed military personnel remains one of the few areas of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv...
Top U.S. government intelligence officials intensified their warnings on Monday about foreign election interference – especially from Russia. The concern, from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), follows warnings on Friday about...
Just days before the U.S. presidential election, intelligence agencies in Washington are warning of targeted disinformation from Russia. The agencies blamed Russia for a video that “falsely depicted individuals claiming to be from Haiti and voting illegally in multiple counties in Georgia.” Another fabricated video falsely accused “an individual...
President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday said that North Korea has sent soldiers as well as weapons to support Russia in its fight against neighbouring Ukraine. “We see an increasing alliance between Russia and regimes like North Korea. “This is no longer just about transferring weapons. “It is actually about...
The Moscow City Court on Monday sentenced U.S. retiree Stephen Hubbard to six years and 10 months in a penal colony on charges of fighting against Russia in Ukraine. “The court finds Hubbard guilty of a crime under Article 359, Section 3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian...