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April 30, 2026 11:47 AM

Putin puts forward ideas on Iran in call with Trump, Kremlin says

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump held a phone call on Wednesday in which the Russian leader put forward ideas on resolving the conflict over Iran's nuclear programme, a Kremlin aide said. Putin also proposed a repeat of a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine to mark the anniversary of the end of World War Two next month, the aide said. Putin announced a similar truce last year which lasted three days but was not agreed with Kyiv. The phone call was the first publicly announced conversation between th...

February 12, 2026 3:24 PM

Russian air attack knocks out power, heat to thousands of Ukrainians

Russia pounded Ukraine with drones and ballistic missiles overnight on Thursday, further battering its energy system and leaving tens of thousands in the capital Kyiv and the cities of Dnipro and Odesa without heat, power and water, officials said. Russia has intensified its winter campaign of strikes on Ukraine's power grid, plunging major cities into long periods of cold and darkness in freezing temperatures. In Kyiv alone, around 3,500 apartment buildings were without heating on Thursday af...

November 21, 2025 3:42 PM

Kyiv says work continues on technical level between teams to study US proposals

Ukraine called on its partners to respect its position as work continues on the technical level to study a U.S.-backed plan to end the war, a senior Ukrainian official said on Friday. Rustem Umerov, the secretary of the National Security and Defence Council, said that Ukraine's unchanging principles were "sovereignty, the safety of people, and a just peace". "We are carefully studying all of our partners' proposals and expect the same proper attitude towards Ukraine's position," Umerov said in...

November 21, 2025 12:34 PM

Russia downs 33 Ukrainian drones overnight, defence ministry says

The Russian Defence Ministry said on Friday that 33 Ukrainian drones had been intercepted and destroyed over five Russian regions, Crimea and the Black sea overnight. At least eight Russian airports had been forced to suspend operations during the night, according to Russia's aviation watchdog. Two people had been injured in the city of Slavyansk-on-Kuban in the Krasnodar region in southern Russia and classes at schools and kindergartens had been suspended due to a drone attack, the local emer...

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 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 6, 2025 4:51 PM

Ukraine says it struck major Russian explosives factory, oil terminal

Ukraine's military said on Monday it had struck one of Russia's main factories producing explosives for a wide variety of ammunition for Russia's army as well as an oil terminal in occupied Crimea fueling Moscow's war effort. Ukraine's forces have stepped up long-range attacks on strategic Russian targets, particularly oil facilities, as diplomatic efforts to end the more than 3-1/2-year-old war have stalled. In a statement, Ukraine's General Staff said "numerous explosions" were reported ...

August 28, 2025 3:58 PM

The ‘land swap’ that wasn’t: Inside Trump’s frantic dash for Ukraine peace

Shortly after meeting Vladimir Putin in Moscow on August 6, U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff delivered major news to Donald Trump: The Russian president was prepared to offer significant territorial concessions to end his war in Ukraine. Following Witkoff's readout to the U.S. president, described by two people briefed on the matter, Trump hailed his emissary's "great progress" and agreed to hold a historic summit with Putin, indicating that a land swap was on the table. But the diplomatic dri...

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 16, 2025 8:21 AM

Trump says Zelenskiy should not target Moscow

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy should not target Moscow and that Russian President Vladimir Putin should agree to a ceasefire deal by a 50-day deadline or sanctions will kick in. His comments came after The Financial Times, citing people briefed on discussions, reported on Tuesday that Trump had privately encouraged Ukraine to step up deep strikes on Russia. The newspaper said that Trump asked Zelenskiy whether he could strike...