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A Russian-American citizen has been released in a prisoner swap between Moscow and Washington. Amateur ballerina Ksenia Karelina, a Los Angeles resident, had been in prison in Russia for over a year, after being arrested in the city of Yekaterinburg in early 2024. She was found guilty of treason for donating money to a US-based […]
Why US-Russia Black Sea talks are making Europe nervous Financial Times Source link
US and Russian officials are in Saudi Arabia and holding talks aimed at making progress towards a broader ceasefire in Ukraine as Washington is also eyeing to secure a separate Black Sea maritime ceasefire deal with the Kremlin. Earlier, the US delegation held talks with Ukraine officials in Saudi Arabia on Sunday as President Donald […]
The Black Sea Initiative is a key topic in ongoing U.S.-Russia talks in Riyadh, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov confirmed on March 24, state-owned media outlet TASS reported. “The matter of the Black Sea Initiative and everything related to the initiative’s renewal are on the agenda today,” Peskov said. He added that Russian President Vladimir Putin […]
EU littoral states Romania and Bulgaria are concerned about possible changes to the Black Sea status quo as part of a potential agreement between Russia and the United States. Officials in the region fear that this would expand the Russian navy’s area of operations. Ukraine was able to push Russian warships out of the western […]
Romania and Bulgaria are wary of a possible deal between the U.S. and Russia that could restore Moscow’s position in the Black Sea, the Financial Times reported on March 24, citing undisclosed officials from the region. U.S. and Russian delegates are meeting in Riyadh on March 24 as Washington pushes for a ceasefire in the […]
Ukraine focuses pinpoint attacks on Russia’s key military installationspublished at 15:50 Greenwich Mean Time 23 March 15:50 GMT 23 March Chris PartridgeBBC News weapons analyst As Russia continues its aerial bombardment of Ukraine with drones and missiles, Ukraine has been successfully targeting the sources of some of those attacks. One of those was at Engels-2 […]
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed staging a series of hockey games between players from their respective countries during their lengthy call Tuesday, according to the Kremlin. Moscow said in its recap of the call that Trump supported Putin’s idea to organize games in the U.S. and Russia involving players from […]
Bernd Debusmann and George Wright in Palm Beach, Florida and London Vitaliy Shevchenko BBC Monitoring’s Russia editor BBC questions Trump on Ukraine not being invited to US-Russia talks Donald Trump has taken aim at Ukraine after its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, said it was a “surprise” that his country was not invited to peace talks in […]
US-Russia talks spark European fears of Ukraine settlement on Putin’s terms  Financial Times Source link