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November 22, 2025 12:18 PM

Putin envoy Dmitriev: Peace plan seeks to end Ukraine losses of land, lives

Russian President Vladimir Putin's investment envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, said on Friday the U.S. plan for a settlement of the war in Ukraine was aimed at preventing more Ukrainian deaths and loss of territory. Several sources told Reuters and other media outlets that the plan to end the four-year-old war was the result of back-channel conversations between Dmitriev and Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump's special envoy. "Because of warmongers’ propaganda, many people miss that Trump’s...

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 24, 2025 9:08 AM

Putin says Russia will never bow to US pressure, warns on missiles

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Moscow would never bow to pressure from the United States or any other foreign power, and cautioned that it would deliver an "overwhelming" response to any military strikes deep inside Russia. U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday hit Russia's two biggest oil companies with sanctions in a sharp policy shift on Moscow's war in Ukraine, prompting global oil prices to rise by nearly 5% on Thursday. Putin told reporters that U.S. and Western sancti...

October 17, 2025 6:47 PM

Hungary to ensure Putin can enter country for Trump meeting in Budapest

Hungary will ensure that Russian President Vladimir Putin can enter the country for a summit with U.S. President Donald Trump planned in Budapest and return home afterwards, Hungary's Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Friday. Trump agreed on Thursday to a second summit on the war in Ukraine to be hosted in the Hungarian capital, saying it may happen in the next two weeks. Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban spoke with Trump on Thursday and talked to Putin on Friday, saying preparations...

October 17, 2025 3:05 PM

Zelenskiy to seek weapons from Trump in the shadow of a new Putin summit

U.S. President Donald Trump will discuss the possible supply of Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday but the surprise announcement of a new U.S.-Russian summit cast doubt over the prospect. Trump said on Thursday he may meet Russian President Vladimir Putin within the next two weeks in Budapest after a more than two-hour phone conversation about Russia’s war in Ukraine that he said was productive. “My whole life, I’ve made deals,” Tr...

October 15, 2025 4:21 PM

Putin and Syria’s Sharaa to discuss fate of Russian military bases on Wednesday, Kremlin says

President Vladimir Putin will hold talks in Moscow with Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa later on Wednesday, the Syrian president's first visit to Russia since coming to power, and the fate of Russia's military bases in Syria will be on the agenda, the Kremlin said. The Kremlin said that Sharaa, who once headed the Syrian branch of al Qaeda and who toppled close Russian ally Bashar al-Assad late last year, was in Russia on a working visit. The fate of Russia's two main bases in Syria - the Hmeimim airb...

October 9, 2025 9:02 PM

Putin urges Central Asian states to step up trade with Russia

President Vladimir Putin on Thursday urged the leaders of five Central Asian states to boost their trade with Russia, as Moscow seeks to build back its influence in a region that is also being courted by China. Russia's total trade turnover last year with Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan and Tajikistan was over $45 billion - a "good result" but well short of the level of its bilateral trade with Belarus, which has a fraction of their combined population, Putin said. He told a s...

October 8, 2025 10:32 AM

Putin says Russia has captured nearly 5,000 square km in Ukraine this year

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that Russian forces had captured almost 5,000 square km (1,930 square miles) of land in Ukraine in 2025 and that Moscow retained complete strategic initiative on the battlefield. Russia's 2025 gains would amount to nearly 1% of Ukraine's land area, and the country controls nearly 20% in total. Putin, addressing a meeting with Russian top military commanders on his 73rd birthday, said Ukrainian forces were retreating in all sec...

September 18, 2025 11:55 AM

PM Modi, Putin review bilateral agenda ahead of India-Russia Annual Summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday reviewed key issues on the bilateral agenda ahead of the upcoming India-Russia Annual Summit, with PM Modi reiterating India’s support for a peaceful resolution of the Ukraine conflict. Putin called up the Prime Minister to extend greetings on his 75th birthday. PM Modi expressed appreciation and highlighted the enduring nature of the India-Russia partnership, the Ministry of External Affairs said. During the conv...

September 17, 2025 4:40 PM

Germany’s Merz accuses Putin of murder and trying to destabilise West

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday accused Russia's Vladimir Putin of murder and trying to destabilise the West by testing its limits and sabotage, speaking at a parliamentary debate where he clashed with the far-right opposition. Merz said recent Russian incursions into Polish and Romanian airspace were part of a long-running trend of testing the West's boundaries. "Putin has long been testing the borders, he is sabotaging. He is spying, he is murdering, he is trying to unsettle us...