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March 19, 2025 8:38 PM

Putin wants Trump to formally recognise all land Russia has taken in Ukraine, Kommersant reports

President Vladimir Putin wants U.S. President Donald Trump to formally recognise all four Ukrainian regions that Moscow has claimed as its own in addition to Crimea, Russia's Kommersant daily reported. Citing unnamed sources who attended a private business event with Putin on Tuesday, Kommersant said that Putin wanted the U.S. to formally recognise the four regions - Luhansk, Donetsk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson - as part of Russia along with Crimea, which Moscow seized and annexed in 2014. Russi...

March 19, 2025 3:08 PM

Ukraine, Russia energy assets in focus after Trump-Putin call

Russia and Ukraine accused each other on Wednesday of launching air attacks that sparked fires and damaged infrastructure just hours after their leaders agreed to a limited ceasefire to halt attacks on energy infrastructure. Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed to temporarily stop attacking Ukrainian energy facilities but declined to endorse a full 30-day ceasefire sought by U.S. President Donald Trump in a telephone call with the Russian leader on Tuesday. Ukraine's energy infrastructure h...

March 18, 2025 11:42 PM

Trump and Putin discuss Ukraine war, Russia says the talks have ended

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin discussed the Ukraine war on Tuesday in a phone call which Washington hoped would convince Moscow to accept a 30-day ceasefire and move towards a permanent peace deal. The White House said the talks had begun at 10 a.m. ET (1400 GMT) and White House deputy chief of staff Dan Scavino wrote on social media that the call was "going well". The Kremlin said the talks had ended, Russia's TASS news agency reported. Kirill Dmitriev, who...

March 16, 2025 9:46 AM

Russia, Ukraine continue air attacks with ceasefire prospects uncertain

Russia and Ukraine continued aerial attacks on each other, inflicting injuries and damages, officials said early on Sunday, as the fate of a proposed ceasefire to the three-year-old war remained uncertain. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday he supported in principle Washington's proposal for a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine but that his forces would fight on until several crucial conditions were worked out. Both sides have since traded heavy aerial strikes, and Russia moved close...

March 12, 2025 4:33 PM

Russia says it’s waiting to hear from US on Ukraine 30-day ceasefire plan

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it needed to be briefed by the United States on the outcome of U.S.-Ukrainian talks in Saudi Arabia before it would comment on whether a proposed ceasefire was acceptable to Russia. After more than eight hours of talks with Ukrainian officials in Jeddah on Tuesday, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. would take an offer of a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine, accepted by Ukrainian officials, to Russia. The United States also agreed to resume military aid a...

March 12, 2025 4:13 PM

China, Russia, Iran to hold nuclear talks in Beijing on Friday

China will hold a meeting on Friday in Beijing with Russia and Iran on the Iranian "nuclear issue", its foreign ministry said, with both nations sending their deputy foreign ministers. Ties between Iran and Russia have deepened since the start of the Ukraine war in 2022, with a strategic cooperation treaty signed in January. Both have good relations with China. China's Vice Foreign Minister Ma Zhaoxu will chair the meeting, Mao Ning, a spokesperson of its foreign ministry, told a regular press...

March 11, 2025 9:20 AM

Saudi Arabia to host talks between US and Ukraine to address conflict with Russia

Saudi Arabia is set to host high-level talks on Tuesday, bringing together the United States and Ukraine to discuss the ongoing conflict with Russia. The talks, scheduled to take place in Jeddah, come after a heated exchange during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to the White House on February 28, 2025, which strained relations between the two nations. While Riyadh may seem like an unconventional venue for such critical discussions, Saudi Arabia, under the leadership of Crown Prince Moha...

March 10, 2025 9:53 AM

Russian forces take three new settlements in drive to oust Ukrainian forces in Kursk

Russian forces on Sunday recaptured three more settlements in Russia's western Kursk region, the Defence Ministry said, part of an operation to evict Ukrainian troops holding chunks of territory seven months after a cross-border incursion. The ministry statement, posted on the Telegram messaging app, followed reports by Russian bloggers that Russian special forces had crept for miles through a gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha in an attempt to surprise Ukrainian forces. The three settleme...

March 7, 2025 9:48 PM

Trump says he is considering putting banking sanctions, tariffs on Russia

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is "strongly considering" imposing sanctions, including ones on banking, and tariffs on Russia until a ceasefire and peace agreement is reached with Ukraine.` Trump has also paused military aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine to pressure Kyiv to accept a ceasefire deal after an explosive Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a week ago. "Based on the fact that Russia is absolutely 'pounding' Ukraine on the battle...

March 7, 2025 6:33 PM

Saudis welcome chance to host US-Ukraine talks in Jeddah next week

Saudi Arabia welcomed on Friday the chance to host a meeting between the U.S. and Ukraine next week, its foreign ministry said, adding that the kingdom would continue to do its utmost to help end the Ukraine-Russia war. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Thursday he would travel to Saudi Arabia on Monday for a meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman ahead of talks later in the week with U.S. officials. A brief Saudi Foreign Ministry statement said the U.S.-Ukrainian ta...