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April 30, 2026 11:47 AM

Putin puts forward ideas on Iran in call with Trump, Kremlin says

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a phone call on Wednesday in which the Russian leader put forward ideas on resolving the conflict over Iran's nuclear programme, a Kremlin aide said. Putin also proposed a repeat of a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine to mark the anniversary of the end of World War Two next month, the aide said. Putin announced a similar truce last year which lasted three days but was not agreed with Kyiv. The phone call was the first publicly announced conversation between th...

March 24, 2026 10:08 AM

Ukraine has ‘irrefutable’ evidence of Russia providing intelligence to Iran, Zelenskiy says

Ukraine's military intelligence has "irrefutable" evidence that Russia continues to provide intelligence to Iran and such activity can only prolong the war in the Middle East, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday. "Russia is using its own signals intelligence and electronic intelligence capabilities, as well as part of the data obtained through cooperation with partners in the Middle East," he said on X after meeting the head of military intelligence. Speaking later in his ni...

March 10, 2026 1:12 PM

Trump, Putin talk of war and peace as US weighs easing Russian oil sanctions

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed on Monday the war in Iran and prospects for peace in Ukraine, just hours after the Kremlin chief warned that a global energy crisis threatened the world economy. The U.S. and Israeli attack on Iran triggered the biggest spike in oil prices since the turmoil following Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine, as Gulf producers reduce output after the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. The Kremlin said Trump called Putin, in the...

March 2, 2026 10:27 PM

Russia’s Putin, Saudi crown prince discuss Iran escalation risks

Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed risks of escalation around Iran in a phone call with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Monday, the Kremlin said in a statement. "Both sides expressed serious concern about the real risks of the conflict spreading, which has already affected the territories of a number of Arab countries and could have catastrophic consequences," the Kremlin said. Putin told Mohammed bin Salman that there is an urgent need to resolve this "extremely dan...

March 2, 2026 4:08 PM

Kremlin says continuing talks with Ukraine is in Russia’s own interests

The Kremlin said on Monday that it was in Russia's own interests to continue peace talks with Ukraine and that Moscow's preference was still to reach a diplomatic settlement to end the fighting. Peace talks have appeared deadlocked in recent weeks over Russia's insistence that Ukraine hand over the remaining part of its eastern Donbas region which Moscow does not control, an idea Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has repeatedly rejected. Bloomberg News reported on Saturday, citing people...

February 24, 2026 4:01 PM

Kremlin says Ukraine conflict has evolved into a much wider confrontation with the West

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Western countries' decision to intervene in the conflict in Ukraine meant it had become a much wider confrontation with nations that Russia believed want to crush it. Speaking exactly four years after tens of thousands of Russian troops entered Ukraine on President Vladimir Putin's orders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the fighting continued, but that Moscow remained open to achieving its aims through political and diplomatic means. "Following the direct...

October 30, 2025 4:12 PM

Kremlin reacts cautiously to Trump’s nuclear testing remarks

The Kremlin on Thursday reacted cautiously to President Donald Trump's remarks about the resumption of nuclear weapons testing by the United States, saying that Russia had not tested but that Moscow would follow suit if Washington did. Trump ordered the U.S. military on Thursday to immediately resume testing nuclear weapons after a gap of 33 years, minutes before beginning a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Trump said that because of "other countries testing programmes" the United St...

October 22, 2025 3:01 PM

Kremlin says date of Putin-Trump summit is yet to be set

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that the dates of a summit meeting between President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump had yet to be set, and added that neither Putin nor Trump wanted to waste time. "The dates, actually, they have not been determined, they have yet to be determined, but before that, careful preparation is necessary - it takes time," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. Asked about Trump remarks about not wanting to waste time, Peskov said: "No one wants t...

October 17, 2025 6:47 PM

Kremlin says Putin-Trump summit may happen within two weeks, but there’s a lot to do first

The Kremlin said on Friday that a summit between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump could take place within two weeks, or a little later, but that there was a great deal to be worked out before a date could be set. Trump and Putin agreed on Thursday to a hold a second summit on the war in Ukraine, provisionally in Budapest, following an August 15 meeting in Alaska that failed to produce a breakthrough. The surprise announcement came on the eve of a meeting between T...

September 30, 2025 6:39 PM

Kremlin says it hopes Trump’s Gaza peace plan is implemented

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that it hoped that U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan was implemented and would spur peace in the Middle East. Trump secured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's backing on Monday for a U.S.-sponsored peace proposal to end a nearly two-year-old war in Gaza, but questions loomed over whether Hamas would accept the plan. In a call with reporters, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said: "Russia always supports and welcomes any efforts by Trump aimed at ...