Vladimir Putin

November 11, 2024 10:20 AM

Donald Trump dials Vladimir Putin, advises him not to escalate Ukraine war: Report

US President-elect Donald Trump spoke with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the first phone conversation between the two leaders since Trump won the election, The Washington Post reported. The US daily, on Sunday (local time) citing its sources, said that Trump took the call from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and during the conversation advised the Russian president not to escalate the war in Ukraine. Neither the White House nor the Kremlin has officially confirmed this information. During...

October 23, 2024 9:14 AM

PM Modi discusses early discharge of remaining Indian nationals in Russian Army with President Putin

Prime Minister Narendra Modi discussed the issue of early discharge of the remaining Indian nationals in the Russian Army during his bilateral meeting on Tuesday with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan. Addressing a media briefing, Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri said the two leaders also shared perspectives on the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. Prime Minister reiterated that dialogue and diplomacy was the way forward to achieve resolution of the co...

October 23, 2024 8:58 AM

Prime Minister Modi invites Russian President Putin to visit India next year for annual summit

Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of 16th BRICS Summit in Kazan on Tuesday. PM Modi invited Putin to visit India next year for 23rd India-Russia Annual Summit. The two leaders reviewed bilateral cooperation in various sectors, including political, economic, defence, energy, and people-to-people ties, Prime Minister's Office said in a press release. This was their second meeting this year as the two leaders had earlier met in Mosco...

October 22, 2024 9:04 AM

Putin to meet PM Modi & other leaders on sidelines of BRICS Summit: Russian presidential aide

On the sidelines of the BRICS Summit in Russia's Kazan, Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold meetings with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Turkiye President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, TASS reported citing the Russian president's foreign policy aide, Yury Ushakov. Speaking to reporters, Ushakov stated that the meetings will start on October 22. He said Putin will have a meeting with New Development Bank President Dilm...

September 26, 2024 10:12 AM

Putin issues nuclear warning to the West over strikes on Russia from Ukraine

President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack. The decision to change Russia's official nuclear doctrine is the Kremlin's answer to deliberations in the United States and Britain about whether or not to give Ukraine permission to fire conventional Western missiles into Russia. Putin, opening a meeting of Ru...

September 17, 2024 11:30 AM

Putin orders Russian army to become second largest after China’s at 1.5 million-strong

President Vladimir Putin on Monday ordered the regular size of the Russian army to be increased by 180,000 troops to 1.5 million active servicemen in a move that would make it the second largest in the world after China's. In a decree published on the Kremlin's website, Putin ordered the overall size of the armed forces to be increased to 2.38 million people, of which he said 1.5 million should be active servicemen. According to data from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS...

September 13, 2024 10:48 AM

Putin says West will be fighting directly with Russia if it lets Kyiv use long-range missiles

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that the West would be directly fighting with Russia if it allowed Ukraine to strike Russian territory with Western-made long-range missiles, a move he said would alter the nature and scope of the conflict. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has been pleading with Kyiv's allies for months to let Ukraine fire Western missiles including long-range U.S. ATACMS and British Storm Shadows deep into Russian territory to limit Moscow's ability to launch at...

September 11, 2024 11:14 AM

Top Russian official reports swift advance in Ukraine, rules out talks for now

Russia said on Tuesday its forces had advanced by 1,000 square kilometres (390 square miles) in eastern Ukraine in August and September despite a Ukrainian incursion into western Russia, which ruled out any ceasefire talks with Kyiv. Since Russia sent armoured forces into Ukraine in February 2022, the war has largely been a story of grinding artillery and drone strikes along a heavily fortified 1,000-km (620-mile) front involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers. Russian Security Council Se...

September 9, 2024 10:36 AM

Russia takes Ukrainian town in advance on Pokrovsk

Russia said on Sunday its forces had taken full control of a town in eastern Ukraine as Moscow's forces advance on the strategically important city of Pokrovsk and seek to pierce the Ukrainian defensive front lines. Russian forces, which control about a fifth of Ukraine since invading in February 2022, are advancing in eastern Ukraine in an attempt to take the whole of the Donbas, which is about half the size of the U.S. state of Ohio. Russia's defence ministry said its forces had taken the t...

August 29, 2024 10:01 AM

Russia faces “difficult fight” to retake Ukraine-held area, says top US spy

Russian President Vladimir Putin will mount a counteroffensive to try to retake territory in the Kursk region captured by Ukrainian troops, but Russian forces will encounter "a difficult fight," Deputy CIA Director David Cohen said on Wednesday. Cohen told a national security industry conference that the significance of the Ukrainian incursion, which has overrun some 300 square miles (777 square km) of the Russian province, remained to be seen. Ukrainian forces crashed through Russia's western...