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November 28, 2025 9:22 AM

Putin says US-Ukraine text could form basis for future peace deal

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that outline draft peace proposals discussed by the United States and Ukraine could become the basis of future agreements to end the conflict in Ukraine, but that if not Russia would fight on. U.S. President Donald Trump has long said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, Europe's deadliest conflict since World War Two, but his efforts so far, including a summit with President Vladimir Putin in Alaska in August, have not brought peace. A leaked 2...

September 23, 2025 3:31 PM

Putin offers Trump one-year extension to nuclear weapons treaty

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in the last arms control treaty between the two powers once it expires next year if the U.S. does the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin's proposal sounded "pretty good," but that U.S. President Donald Trump, who has in the past expressed concern about the treaty's fate, would address the offer himself. The 2010 New START accord, which e...

September 3, 2025 3:24 PM

Kim promises to help Russia with ‘everything’ as Putin thanks North Korea for war aid

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged his full support to Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, promising to do "everything I can to assist" Moscow as the Russian president thanked Pyongyang for sending troops to fight against Ukraine. The meeting took place on the sidelines of celebrations in Beijing to mark the anniversary of Japan's formal surrender in World War Two. Hours earlier, the pair flanked Chinese President Xi Jinping at a massive military parade for the first such gathering of...

May 1, 2025 3:50 PM

Russia’s Medvedev says Ukraine minerals deal means Trump has forced Kyiv to pay for US aid

Senior Russian security official Dmitry Medvedev said on Thursday that the signing of a minerals deal between Ukraine and the United States meant U.S. President Donald Trump had forced Kyiv to pay for future U.S. military aid. The deal, signed in Washington on Wednesday, will give the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals and fund investment in Ukraine's reconstruction. The Kyiv Post, citing diplomatic sources, said the Trump administration had also told Congress on...

March 15, 2025 9:32 AM

Trump asks Putin to spare the lives of Ukrainian troops

US President Donald Trump on Friday said he had appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to spare the lives of thousands of Ukrainian troops who were "completely surrounded" by Russian forces. In a post on Truth Social, his social media platform, Trump stated that he made the appeal during a phone call with Putin on Thursday, which he described as "good and productive." Trump did not specify the exact location of the Ukrainian troops but was referring to the Russian military's advance in t...

February 17, 2025 4:12 PM

Putin sends Russia’s top diplomat and Kremlin adviser to meet Trump officials in Saudi Arabia

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sent his foreign minister and a senior Kremlin adviser to meet U.S. officials in Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to discuss restoring relations and possible talks to end the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Monday. U.S. President Donald Trump said after a call with Putin on Wednesday that they would begin talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine immediately, and that they had also discussed the Middle East, energy, the U.S. dollar and Artificial Intelligence. U....

February 13, 2025 9:23 AM

Trump says Putin and Zelenskiy want peace; phone calls kick off talks to end Ukraine war

Donald Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed a desire for peace in separate phone calls with him on Wednesday, and Trump ordered top U.S. officials to begin talks on ending the war in Ukraine. The conversations came after Trump's defense secretary earlier said Kyiv would have to give up its long-held goals of joining the NATO military alliance and regaining all of its territory seized by Russia, signaling a dramatic shift in Washi...

October 24, 2024 9:08 AM

Prime Minister Modi arrives in Delhi after attending BRICS Summit in Russia

Prime Minister Narendra Modi returned to Delhi after his two-day visit to Russia, during which he participated in the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. He also met several world leaders, including Chinese President Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin and UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan on the sidelines of the BRICS Summit. He described the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan as "very productive". He thanked Russian President Vladimir Putin, the people of Russia and their governme...

August 13, 2024 12:15 PM

Ukraine touts huge gains in Kursk region as it takes war back to Russia

Ukraine said on Monday its biggest cross-border assault of the war had captured 1,000 square kilometres (386 square miles) of Russia's Kursk region and that Russian President Vladimir Putin would have to be forced into making peace. With Russia still struggling to repel the surprise assault a week after it began, Ukraine's top commander Oleksandr Syrskyi briefed President Volodymyr Zelenskiy by video link and said the advance into Russian territory was ongoing. "We continue to conduct an offen...

September 16, 2024 6:06 PM

Russia to ensure return of Indians working for Russian Army

In a significant diplomatic win for India, sources have told ANI that Russia will discharge and facilitate the return of all Indians who are reportedly working for the Russian Army. This matter was raised by PM Modi in his interaction with the Russian President Vladimir Putin. Prime Minister Narendra Modi had met Russian President Vladimir Putin at the President's House in Moscow on Monday. Putin welcomed PM Modi and the two leaders shared a hug. The two leaders shook hands and warmly greeted e...