•US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin made no breakthrough on Ukraine at their high-stakes summit yesterday, pointing to areas of agreement and rekindling a friendship but offering no news on a ceasefire. After an abrupt ending to three hours of talks with aides, Trump and Putin offered...
•Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Pressure mounted ahead of a landmark summit in Alaska between the United States and Russia, as Donald Trump warned that Vladimir Putin had only one chance but Moscow pressed ahead with major battlefield gains in Ukraine. Putin and Trump will meet tomorrow at an air base in the far-northern US […]
•Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin US President Donald Trump said yesterday he would meet with Vladimir Putin for upcoming talks on the Ukraine war even if the Russian leader had not sat down with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. The statement, which contradicted earlier reports that a Putin-Zelensky meeting was a prerequisite for the sum...
•Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin told his US counterpart Donald Trump yesterday that Moscow was ready to hold a fresh round of peace talks with Kyiv after June 22, once the warring sides complete exchanging prisoners and soldiers’ bodies. Ukraine’s leader Volodymyr Zelensky meanwhile did not mention whether Ukr...
•Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin Turkey today proposed to host a meeting between the American, Russian, and Ukrainian presidents in an effort to advance toward an end to the three-year war in Ukraine. NATO member Turkey, which has strove to maintain relations with both Kyiv and Moscow, has become a key mediator amid [&hell...
•Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump, and Volodymyr Zelensky US President Donald Trump called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “crazy” yesterday after Moscow launched a deadly barrage of drones against Ukraine, even as the warring countries completed a large-scale prisoner exchange. At least 13 people were killed when Russia launched a record n...
•Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian President Vladimir Putin Ukraine reported limited strikes on its northeastern region of Sumy but no missile or drone attacks this morning, as Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a three-day truce with Ukraine was supposed to take effect. Putin unilaterally ordered the temporary truc...
•Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin’s order for a three-day truce with Ukraine to coincide with Moscow’s World War II Victory Day commemorations has taken effect, Russian state media reported. Ukraine never agreed to the truce and has dismissed it as theatrics, calling instead for a 30-day ceasefire. The three-day order began at midnight t...
•Zelensky, Trump and Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin today ordered a truce with Ukraine on May 8-10 to coincide with Moscow’s World War II commemorations, drawing ire from Ukraine which demanded Moscow pause hostilities immediately. The announcement came as the United States scaled up efforts to broker an end to the three-year conflict,...
•Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump US President Donald Trump said yesterday he wanted Russia’s Vladimir Putin to “stop shooting” in Ukraine and sign a peace deal, one day after the US leader met Ukraine’s president at the Vatican. Trump, who boasted before his inauguration that he could halt Russia’s invasion of [&...

