•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 Zelensky Ukrainian border guards have prevented tens of thousands of military service-age men from illegally leaving the country since the start of Russia’s invasion, a spokesman for the border guard told our correspondent today. Under martial law, most Ukrainian men aged 18 to 60 have been barred from leaving th...
•Turkey’s Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan (C), Turkish Intelligence Organisation Director Ibrahim Kalin (2nd L), attend a meeting for Ukraine-Russia peace talks at the Turkish Presidential office Dolmabahce, in Istanbul The first direct talks between Ukraine and Russia on ending their war in more than three years started on Friday in Istanbul, wi...
•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,...
•Volodymyr Zelensky, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin US President Donald Trump’s special envoy said yesterday that Russian leader Vladimir Putin was open to a “permanent peace” deal with Ukraine, following talks seeking to end the more than three-year war. Trump has been pressing Moscow and Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire but has failed to [&hell...
•Prisoners of war, Zhang Renbo and Wang Guangjun Ukraine yesterday held a press conference at which Chinese prisoners of war under armed guard told journalists they hoped to be swapped and warned other Chinese nationals not to go to fight. The event came after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky accused Moscow of dragging Beijing into its [...
•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...

