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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 23, 2025 9:02 AM

US sanctions Russian oil companies as Moscow holds nuclear drills

The United States hit Russia's major oil companies with sanctions on Wednesday and accused the Russians of a lack of commitment toward ending the war in Ukraine, as Moscow conducted a major training exercise involving nuclear arms. The new sanctions were unveiled one day after plans for a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin fell apart. Trump told reporters he cancelled the meeting because "it didn't feel right to me." The U.S. Treasury Department s...

October 22, 2025 10:53 PM

Russia holds nuclear drills, Ukraine seeks Swedish jets as Trump delays summit

Russia said on Wednesday it had conducted a major training exercise involving nuclear arms, a day after the U.S. announced a delay in plans for a second summit between presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin on the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin released video showing General Valery Gerasimov, head of the General Staff, reporting to Putin on the drills. Russia said it fired missiles from ground launchers, submarines and aircraft, including intercontinental ballistic weapons capable of striking ...

October 22, 2025 7:38 PM

Russia to ask reservists to defend refineries after Ukrainian attacks

Russia's army top brass said on Wednesday it would seek to use reservists to defend civilian infrastructure such as oil refineries after a sharp rise in Ukrainian drone attacks deep into Russia over recent months. Amid a confrontation with the West over Russia's war in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin has ordered the size of the regular army to swell to 1.5 active servicemen, making it the second largest army in the world after China's. Putin has said that at least 700,000 men are fighting in...

October 17, 2025 9:20 AM

Trump says he will meet Putin in Budapest, touting progress in Ukraine talks

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on Thursday to another summit on the war in Ukraine, a surprise move that came as Moscow feared fresh U.S. military support for Kyiv. Trump and Putin may meet within the next two weeks in Budapest, the U.S. president said, after a more than two-hour phone conversation he called productive. The Kremlin confirmed plans for the meeting, though neither side provided a date for when it would occur. "My whole life, I've made dea...

October 15, 2025 10:25 PM

Hegseth warns Moscow US will ‘impose costs’ if Ukraine war does not end

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Moscow on Wednesday that the United States and its allies would "impose costs on Russia for its continued aggression" if the war in Ukraine does not come to an end. "If we must take this step, the U.S. War Department stands ready to do our part in ways that only the United States can do," Hegseth said at a meeting of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group of Kyiv's allies at NATO headquarters. Hegseth did not elaborate. His comments came as U.S. President ...

October 13, 2025 4:53 PM

NATO chief mocks ‘broken’ Russian submarine as Moscow denies malfunction

NATO chief Mark Rutte mocked Russia on Monday over the "limping" condition of one of its submarines as Russian authorities denied it had been forced to surface because of technical problems. Russia's Black Sea Fleet said the diesel-powered submarine Novorossiysk had surfaced off France to comply with navigation rules in the English Channel, and rejected reports it had suffered a serious malfunction. But Dutch authorities said at the weekend that the submarine was under tow in the North Sea. An...

October 10, 2025 8:52 PM

Putin says ‘no big deal’ for Russia if US declines to extend nuclear warhead limits

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was developing new strategic weapons and it would not be critical for Moscow if the United States declined to extend the warhead limits set out in a nuclear arms treaty that expires next year. He said it would, however, be a shame if nothing remained of the arms control framework between the two countries, which have by far the world's biggest nuclear arsenals. Speaking to reporters at a summit in Tajikistan, Putin said an arms race was alrea...

October 10, 2025 8:47 PM

Poland says cyberattacks on critical infrastructure rising, blames Russia

Poland's critical infrastructure has been subject to a growing number of cyberattacks by Russia, whose military intelligence, has trebled its resources for such action against Poland this year, the country's digital affairs minister told Reuters. Of the 170,000 cyber incidents that have been identified in the first three quarters of this year, a significant portion has been attributed to Russian actors, while other cases are financially motivated, involving theft or other forms of cybercrime, K...

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...