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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 ...

September 29, 2025 3:40 PM

Kremlin accuses Moldova of preventing hundreds of thousands of Moldovans in Russia from voting

The Kremlin on Monday accused the authorities in Moldova of preventing hundreds of thousands of Moldovans living in Russia from voting in an election on Sunday by providing only two polling stations for the large Diaspora. Moldova's pro-European Union ruling party won a resounding victory over its Russian-leaning rival in the parliamentary election, results showed. Asked whether Moscow recognised the results, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov noted that some political forces in�...

September 24, 2025 8:11 PM

Kremlin says Trump’s Ukraine shift mistaken and swayed by Zelenskiy

The Kremlin on Wednesday flatly rejected what Donald Trump said was the rationale behind his rhetorical U-turn on the war in Ukraine, saying it appeared that the U.S. president had been influenced by Ukraine's leader and was mistaken. In an abrupt shift in Ukraine's favour, Trump said on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he believed that Kyiv could recapture all of its land taken by Russia - which controls around one-fifth of the country - and that it should act...

September 24, 2025 6:25 PM

Kremlin says process of restoring ties with US is proceeding ‘much more slowly than desired’

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the process of restoring relations between Russia and the US was proceeding "much more slowly than desired." Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin would like to speed up work on removing what he called irritants in bilateral relations and said there were many areas where Russia and the US could cooperate in the interests of both countries. More to follow... (Reuters)...

September 10, 2025 5:18 PM

Kremlin declines to comment on drone incident in Poland

The Kremlin on Wednesday declined to comment on Poland's statement that it had shot down Russian drones in Polish airspace, saying this was a matter for the defence ministry. Poland shot down drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of military aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during Russia's war in Ukraine. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said it was a large-scale provocation, and "the closest we...