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July 4, 2025 9:23 AM

No progress at all, Trump says after phone call with Putin

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that a phone call earlier in the day with Vladimir Putin resulted in no progress at all on efforts to end the war in Ukraine, while a Kremlin aide said the Russian president reiterated that Moscow would keep pushing to solve the conflict's "root causes." The two leaders did not discuss a recent pause in some U.S. weapons shipments to Kyiv during the nearly hour-long conversation, according to a readout provided by Putin aide Yuri Ushakov. U.S. attem...

July 1, 2025 11:45 PM

Putin, Macron discuss Iran, Ukraine in first phone call in nearly three years

Russian President Vladimir Putin had a “substantial” phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron on the Middle East crisis including Iran and the Ukraine conflict, the Kremlin said on Tuesday, their first such exchange since September 2022. In Paris, Macron’s office said the call lasted two hours and that the French leader had called for a ceasefire in Ukraine and the start of negotiations on ending the conflict. According to the Kremlin press service, Putin said it was necessary to...

May 8, 2025 2:31 AM

Zelenskiy says Ukraine stands by offer of 30-day ceasefire

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that his country stood by its offer to observe a 30-day ceasefire in its war with Russia, while the Kremlin had made no response to the proposal. A spokesperson for Russia's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, rejected any suggestion that Moscow had opposed or was hindering efforts to introduce a ceasefire. Both were speaking hours before a three-day ceasefire proposed by Russia was to go into effect to mark the anniversary of the victory over...

April 16, 2025 10:17 PM

Putin praises Elon Musk, compares him to father of Soviet space program

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised Elon Musk, comparing him to Sergei Korolev, the chief engineer behind the Soviet Union's space success in the 1950s and 1960s, state news agency TASS reported. TASS cited Putin, who was speaking on Russia's space policy at a meeting with students, as saying: "You know, there's a person who lives in the States, you could say that he's absolutely crazy about Mars." It quoted him as drawing a comparison between Musk and Sergei Korolev, ...

March 27, 2025 3:31 PM

Russian President Putin accepts invitation to visit India, says Foreign Minister Lavrov

Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted an invitation to visit India, with preparations for the visit currently underway, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov confirmed on Thursday, according to Russian news agency TASS. Speaking virtually at the "Russia and India: Toward a New Bilateral Agenda" conference, Lavrov said that India is making arrangements for Putin's visit. The conference was jointly organized by the Embassy of India in Russia and the Russian International Affairs Council ...

March 19, 2025 8:38 PM

Putin wants Trump to formally recognise all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports

President Vladimir Putin wants U.S. President Donald Trump to formally recognise all four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has claimed as its own in addition to Crimea, Russia's Kommersant daily reported. Citing unnamed sources who attended a private business event with Putin on Tuesday, Kommersant said that Putin wanted the U.S. to formally recognise the four regions - Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson - as part of Russia along with Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014. Russi...

March 18, 2025 11:42 PM

Trump and Putin discuss Ukraine war, Russia says the talks have ended

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Ukraine war on Tuesday in a phone call which Washington hoped would convince Moscow to accept a 30-day ceasefire and move towards a permanent peace deal. The White House said the talks had begun at 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) and White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino wrote on social media that the call was "going well". The Kremlin said the talks had ended, Russia's TASS news agency reported. Kirill Dmitriev, who...

March 17, 2025 4:04 PM

Trump says he will speak with Putin on Tuesday about ending war in Ukraine

U.S. President Donald Trump said he plans to speak to Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday and discuss ending the war in Ukraine, after positive talks between U.S. and Russian officials in Moscow. "We want to see if we can bring that war to an end," Trump told reporters on Air Force One during a flight back to the Washington area from Florida. "Maybe we can, maybe we can't, but I think we have a very good chance. "I'll be speaking to President Putin on Tuesday. A lot of work's been done...

March 14, 2025 8:28 AM

“We agree to ceasefire, but…”: Putin thanks Trump, PM Modi for efforts to resolve Ukraine conflict

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made his first public remarks on Ukraine’s willingness to negotiate a ceasefire, expressing gratitude to world leaders, including U.S. President Donald Trump, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, and Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, for their efforts in addressing the conflict. Speaking at a joint press conference with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko on Thursday, Putin stated that while Russia agrees with proposals to cease hostilities, i...

March 13, 2025 8:17 PM

Kremlin says there’s ‘nothing’ for Russia in a US ceasefire idea for Ukraine

Russian President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide said on Thursday he had told Washington that a 30-day ceasefire proposed by the United States to pause the war in Ukraine would simply give Kyiv's forces a much-needed battlefield respite. Russia's advances along the front since mid-2024 and U.S. President Donald Trump's attempt to strike a peace deal to end the three-year-old conflict in Ukraine have raised fears that Kyiv, which was backed by the West, could lose the war. Trump's Mid...