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August 18, 2025 7:32 PM

Putin briefs PM Modi on Alaska talks with Trump

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday spoke to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, sharing his assessment of last week’s meeting with US President Donald Trump in Alaska. During the conversation, PM Modi reiterated India’s consistent call for a peaceful settlement of the Ukraine conflict and New Delhi’s support for all diplomatic efforts. “Thank my friend, President Putin, for his phone call and for sharing insights on his recent meeting with President Trump in Alaska. India has consiste...

August 14, 2025 5:54 PM

Trump offers hope on security guarantees as Ukraine braces for Putin meet

Ukraine's allies said President Donald Trump was willing to back security guarantees for Kyiv, a potentially significant but as yet vague offer that could give some hope to Ukraine on Thursday with one day to go until a U.S.-Russia summit on ending the war. Trump had shown willingness to join the guarantees at a last-ditch virtual meeting with European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday, leaders said, though he made no public mention of them afterwards. Zelenskiy ...

August 8, 2025 9:40 AM

Russian President Putin accords warm welcome to NSA Doval at Kremlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday received India’s National Security Advisor Ajit Doval at the Kremlin, marking a significant moment in the evolving strategic partnership between New Delhi and Moscow. The meeting, held in the presence of senior Russian officials, included Security Council Secretary Sergei Shoigu and Presidential Aide Yuri Ushakov. From the Indian side, Ambassador Vinay Kumar joined the high-level discussions, which focused on regional security, defence cooperation...

August 2, 2025 11:47 AM

Trump orders nuclear submarines moved after Russian ‘provocative statements’

U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday said he had ordered two nuclear submarines to be positioned in "the appropriate regions" in response to remarks from former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about the risk of war between the nuclear-armed adversaries. Security analysts called Trump's move a rhetorical escalation with Moscow, but not necessarily a military one, given that the United States already has nuclear-powered submarines that are deployed and capable of striking Russia. Medvedev on ...

July 20, 2025 3:02 PM

Kremlin says Putin is ready to discuss peace in Ukraine but wants to achieve goals

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to move toward a peace settlement for Ukraine but Moscow's main objective is to achieve its goals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told state television in a clip published on Sunday. Peskov said that the world was now accustomed to U.S. President Donald Trump's sometimes "harsh" rhetoric but pointed out that Trump had also underscored in comments on Russia that he would continue to search for a peace deal. "President Putin has repeatedly spoken of his...

July 9, 2025 1:12 AM

Trump criticizes Putin after approving more weapons for Ukraine

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he had approved sending U.S. defensive weapons to Ukraine and was considering additional sanctions on Moscow, underscoring his frustration with Russian President Vladimir Putin over the growing death toll in Russia’s war with Ukraine. Trump, who pledged as a presidential candidate to end the war within a day, has not been able to follow through on that promise and efforts by his administration to broker peace have come up short. Trump directed h...

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, ...