Russia Ukraine conflict

March 20, 2025 5:06 PM

Russia and US to discuss Black Sea shipping and Ukraine peace in Saudi Arabia

Russia and the U.S. will discuss ways to ensure safe shipping in the Black Sea at talks on a possible Ukrainian peace settlement in the Saudi city of Jeddah over coming days, the Kremlin said on Thursday. After Russian forces made gains in 2024, President Donald Trump reversed U.S. policy on the war, launching bilateral talks with Moscow and suspending military assistance to Ukraine, demanding that it take steps to end the conflict. Trump envoy Steve Witkoff earlier this week said U.S.-Russian...

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 17, 2025 8:51 AM

Russia demands ‘ironclad’ guarantees in peace treaty with Ukraine

Russia will seek "ironclad" guarantees in any peace deal on Ukraine that NATO nations will exclude Kyiv from membership and that Ukraine will remain neutral, a Russian deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump is trying to win President Vladimir Putin's support for a 30-day ceasefire proposal that Ukraine accepted last week and which Putin says needs to meet crucial conditions to be acceptable. Trump is expected to speak with his Putin this week o...

March 12, 2025 10:19 AM

US says Ukraine ready for ceasefire, up to Russia now

The US on Tuesday said that Ukraine has agreed to its proposal for an immediate and interim ceasefire for 30 days and now it's up to Russia to reciprocate. The US has also lifted the pause on sharing intelligence and providing military assistance to Ukraine. "Ukraine is ready to stop shooting and start talking, and now it will be up to them to say yes or no," US Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters after a meeting with Ukrainian officials in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, referring to Russia. ...

January 9, 2025 11:20 AM

US warns North Korea becoming better prepared for war, fighting against Ukraine

The United States warned on Wednesday that North Korea is benefiting from its troops fighting alongside Russia against Ukraine, gaining experience that makes Pyongyang "more capable of waging war against its neighbors." Russia has forged closer diplomatic and military ties with North Korea since Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022. More than 12,000 North Korean troops are in Russia and last month began fighting against Ukrainian forces in Russia's Kursk region, Deputy U.S. Ambassador to th...

December 30, 2024 11:46 AM

In a first, Ukraine captures North Korean soldier

In a first, Ukraine claims to have captured a North Korean soldier who was fighting alongside Russian forces in the Kursk region. A photo of the purportedly captured North Korean soldier, who appeared to have sustained injuries, circulated on Telegram. The soldier was captured alive but has since died from his wounds. He is believed to be the first North Korean prisoner of war captured since Pyongyang deployed forces to support Russia's war in Ukraine. Ukraine's military-focussed news outlet Mi...

December 12, 2024 5:36 PM

Russia supports Orban’s POW swap proposal but Ukraine refused, Kremlin says

The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russian President Vladimir Putin had fully supported a prisoner of war exchange between Moscow and Kyiv proposed by Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, but that Ukraine appeared to have turned down the idea. Orban made the proposals during a call with Putin, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters. "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, during yesterday's telephone conversation with President Putin, made a proposal on the eve of Christmas to carry o...

December 11, 2024 2:40 PM

Russia accuses Ukraine of attacking car used to carry UN nuclear experts on Dec 10

Russia on Wednesday accused the Ukrainian armed forces of attacking a car used to transport experts from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) on Dec. 10, saying someone could have been killed. IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi saidon the day of the incident that a drone had hit and severely damaged an official vehicle of the agency on the road to Ukraine's Russian-controlled Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant on Tuesday, but that there had been no casualties. Ukrainian President Volod...

November 28, 2024 4:59 PM

Putin says Russia could strike ‘decision-making centres’ in Kyiv

Russia is selecting targets in Ukraine that could include "decision-making centres" in Kyiv in response to Ukrainian long-range strikes on Russian territory with Western weapons, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday. Russian attacks have not so far struck government buildings in the Ukrainian capital. Kyiv is heavily protected by air defences, but Putin says Russia's Oreshnik hypersonic missile, which it fired for the first time at a Ukrainian city last week, is incapable of being intercep...

November 28, 2024 1:15 PM

Russia mounts ‘massive’ attack on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure, minister says

Russia carried out its second big attack on Ukraine's energy infrastructure this month on Thursday, with national and local officials reporting blasts and emergency power cuts across the country effecting hundreds of thousands of people. "Energy infrastructure is once again targeted by the enemy's massive strike," Ukrainian Energy Minister German Galushchenko wrote on Facebook. Ukraine's national grid operator Ukrenergo introduced emergency power cuts amid the attack, Galushchenko said. Ukrai...