•Putin, Trump and Zelensky Russia and Ukraine agreed yesterday to halt military strikes in the Black Sea and on energy sites during talks brokered by the United States, which offered as a first concrete incentive to Moscow to ease pressure on agricultural exports. With President Donald Trump pushing for a rapid end to the war […]
•US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin A meeting between Russian and US officials on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine ended after 12 hours of negotiations in Saudi Arabia yesterday, Russian state media reported, with a joint statement expected today. With Ukrainian negotiators waiting nearby, a day after they sat down wi...
The European Union today said Russia and China were using “massive digital arsenals” to interfere in Western democracies, while their messaging around the war in Ukraine had become increasingly aligned. “Foreign information manipulation and interference is a major security threat to the EU,” foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said in a report. “...
•Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky Ukraine endorsed an American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire and agreed to immediate negotiations with Russia in pivotal talks in Jeddah yesterday after three years of grinding war. In the first high-level US-Ukraine meeting since President Volodymyr Zelensky’s White House dressing down, the Americ...
•A damaged apartment building in a residential complex following a drone attack last night in the village of Sapronovo in the Moscow region Ukraine targeted Moscow in a “massive” overnight drone attack, authorities said Tuesday, with Russia’s defense ministry claiming it shot down 337 UAVs across the country. “The Defense Ministry’s air defen...
•Trump and Putin US President Donald Trump yesterday threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia over its bombardments of Ukraine, after previously suspending US aid to Kyiv in a stated bid to encourage diplomacy. But in comments later yesterday, he said it was “easier” to work with Russia than Ukraine in efforts to end the […]
•Zelensky, Trump and Putin Russia and the United States yesterday agreed to establish teams to negotiate a path to ending the war in Ukraine after talks that drew a strong rebuke from Kyiv over its exclusion. Washington noted European nations would have to have a seat at the negotiating table “at some point”, following the […]
•(L to R): Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan al-Saud, National Security Advisor Mosaad bin Mohammad al-Aiban, the Russian president’s foreign policy advisor Yuri Ushakov, and Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov attend a meeting with the US Middle East envoy, Secretary of State, and National Security Advisor together ...
•Super Eagles of Nigeria The Russian Football Union (RFU) has announced plans to play Nigeria’s Super Eagles in an international friendly slated for June 6, 2025. RFU, in a statement on its website yesterday, disclosed that the international friendly will be played in Russia with time and match venue still undecided. The friendly is one [&hell...
•Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he was ready to swap land in negotiations with Russia, which freed at least one American prisoner in what US President Donald Trump described yesterday as a goodwill gesture on ending the war. Zelensky has in the past refused to cede any territory ...

