February 12, 2026 12:08 PM

WhatsApp says Russia tried to fully block service to push state app

Russia has attempted to "fully block" Meta Platform-owned WhatsApp in the country, a company spokesperson told Reuters on Wednesday, as it promotes home-grown platforms and seeks greater control over its internet space. A simmering dispute with foreign tech providers intensified after Moscow's February 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Russian authorities are pushing a state-backed rival app called 'MAX', which critics claim could be used to track users. State media have dismissed those acc...

November 19, 2025 3:36 PM

Kremlin says there is nothing new on Ukraine peace since Alaska

The Kremlin said on Wednesday that there had been no innovations on possible peace proposals for ending the conflict in Ukraine since the Alaska summit between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in August. When asked about an Axios report that the Trump administration was working on a 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said there was nothing he could share in public. Asked to clarify if there were innovations compared to Putin's 2024 proposals, Peskov said that in ad...

October 21, 2025 4:15 PM

Kremlin says timing of Trump-Putin summit is unclear

The Kremlin said on Tuesday it was unclear when a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on seeking an end to the war in Ukraine would take place, and that no dates had been mentioned by anyone. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the Ukraine war, the deadliest in Europe since World War Two, though he has said that finding peace has been harder than reaching a ceasefire in Gaza or ending a conflict between India and Pakistan. After speaking to Put...

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...

August 6, 2025 9:29 AM

Improving Russia-US relations will take time: Kremlin spokesman

Improving relations between Russia and the United States will take time, Kremlin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov told the Russian TASS state news agency in remarks published on Wednesday. “There is, of course, inertia in this process,” Peskov told TASS, referring to the prolonged absence of a meeting between Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump. “It takes time for efforts to bring bilateral relations back onto a normal track.” TASS reported that for the firs...