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Reuters Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Library in St Petersburg US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg on Friday, as Donald Trump urged the Russian president to “get moving” on a ceasefire in Ukraine. The Kremlin said the meeting lasted for more than four hours and focused on “aspects […]
A Kremlin envoy on Thursday praised the Trump administration for hearing “Russia’s position on many issues” after two days of meetings in Washington that marked the first time in years that a senior Russian official had traveled to the United States for talks with American counterparts. The envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, met in the White House […]
Screenshot The war in Ukraine will end at the end of 2025, the IMF reports, which has updated its baseline forecast. At the same time, the IMF has worsened its economic growth forecast for Ukraine for 2025 by 0.5 percentage points. The forecast for 2026 has also been reduced by 0.8 points. Another batch of […]
Putin knows Ukraine will find it extraordinarily difficult to agree to its conditions, and that a refusal makes it likely the US will again suspend arms shipments and intelligence sharing in punishment, enabling further Russian breakthroughs on the battlefield. Source link
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Steve Rosenberg Russia Editor Getty Images Speaking in the Russian Arctic on Thursday, Putin said competition in the region was intensifying In Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic circle, President Vladimir Putin vowed to “strengthen Russia’s global leadership in the Arctic”, while warning that “geopolitical competition in the region” was intensifying. The first […]
EU will maintain sanctions on Russia despite Moscow asking US for relief The European Union will likely continue to sanction Russia for its war on Ukraine even as Moscow is seeking concessions from western nations as precondition for ceasefire over Black Sea. Any sanction Russia wants removed will only be done in the event Russian […]
What it’s really like to be on Putin’s kill list and hunted down by his murderous thugsWhat it’s really like to be on Putin’s kill list As the investigative journalist who exposed the perpetrators involved in the poisoning of Alexei Navalny and Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury, Christo Grozev won international plaudits. And then […]
Russia says it downed two Ukrainian drones over Black Sea Russia’s defence ministry says its forces destroyed at least nine Ukrainian drones overnight, including two over the waters of the Black Sea. The statement comes just hours after the US said it had struck deals with Ukraine and Russia to pause their attacks over the […]
Kremlin: Many aspects of a peace deal yet to be sorted Many aspects related to a possible settlement in Ukraine still need to be worked out, the Kremlin has said as Russian and US officials convene in Saudi Arabia for talks. The Black Sea initiative, which concerns shipping security in the body of water separating […]