Vladimir Putin

Russian President Vladimir Putin promised an “uninterrupted” supply of cheap oil to India after meeting with Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday, defying President Donald Trump’s effort to use tariff pressure to get India to stop funding Putin’s war machine in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in New Delhi on Thursday for meetings with top officials, including Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Seven Ukrainian children have been reunited with their families, First Lady Melania Trump announced on Thursday as she has continued to advocate for reunification for these children for months.

Ukraine war ‘peace’ talks were “difficult” but “necessary”, Russia’s Putin said, adding coming to a consensus on Ukraine “is no easy feat”. 

Talks show Putin has no interest in peace and is stringing Western leaders along to achieve his own battlefield ends, Euro leaders said/

Top Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Tuesday that the Russian government is extremely interested in helping India expand its use of nuclear power, indicating it will be a top priority for Vladimir Putin when he visits the country this week.

Russia would totally eliminate European opponents and be left with “nobody to negotiate with” if war came, Putin said in belligerent remarks.

Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov stated on Wednesday that his government had yet to discuss the U.S.-proposed deal to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, contrary to multiple reports, and that such talks would not occur until U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff arrived in Moscow.

President Donald Trump announced Tuesday that “tremendous progress” has been made in the past week on efforts to wind down the Russia-Ukraine war.

Multiple reports indicated on Tuesday that U.S. Army Secretary Daniel Driscoll is holding meetings with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi to discuss a U.S.-proposed end to the Ukraine invasion.

On Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Fox News Contributor and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that we have not “remotely put enough pressure on” Vladimir Putin, adding, “I don’t think the Biden administration did.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Monday that his “main problem” with the 28-point peace plan proposed by the United States is that it legally recognizes territory Russia stole from Ukraine by force during the invasion that began in 2022.

South Africa has been preparing for a disappointing Group of 20 (G20) summit in Johannesburg this weekend that would be missing the leaders of the United States, China, Russia, Argentina, and Mexico — although President Cyril Ramaphosa claimed on Thursday that the U.S. might rescind its boycott and attend after all.

The Trump administration rolled out a 28-point plan for peace in Ukraine on Thursday, prompting swift, although somewhat equivocal, responses from both Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A ceasefire in Ukraine is unlikely to be brokered before the spring, President Alexander Stubb of Finland said.

The government of South Africa on Thursday announced an investigation into how 17 of its citizens became mercenaries on the battlefields of Ukraine. The men are sending “distress signals” pleading for rescue, and their families claim they were tricked into fighting.

Russian energy company Lukoil on Monday declared force majeure at West Qurna-2, a huge oilfield in Iraq. The Iraqi government has reportedly halted all payments to Lukoil due to U.S. sanctions imposed in October.

Putin discussed what Russia would have to do to perform a nuclear test at short notice during a meeting of his Security Council in Moscow. 

President Donald Trump told reporters on Air Force One on Thursday that he and Chinese dictator Xi Jinping agreed to “work together” to end the war in Ukraine during their “amazing meeting” in South Korea.

Russian oil giant Lukoil issued a statement on Monday saying it would sell many of its international assets spread out across 11 different countries under intense pressure from President Donald Trump’s latest round of sanctions.

Russian strongman Vladimir Putin hosted North Korea Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui in Moscow on Monday, a visit timed to coincide with President Donald Trump’s whirlwind tour of Asia this week that he has expressed hope would include a meeting with dictator Kim Jong-un.

Russia tested a new nuclear-capable and powered cruise missile fit to confound existing defenses, inching closer to deploying it to its military, President Vladimir Putin claimed in remarks released on Sunday.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in an interview on Friday that his country was not planning to abide by President Donald Trump’s recent sanctions imposed on the Russian oil industry and was studying ways to “circumvent” them.

Indian oil refiners were reportedly unhappy with Wednesday’s news that President Donald Trump imposed heavy sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies, Rosneft and Lukoil.

Alexander Khinshtein, governor of Russia’s Kursk region, said in a televised interview on Tuesday that North Korean troops are assisting with mine-clearing efforts along the border with Ukraine.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova responded to the U.S. Treasury Department’s latest round of sanctions against Russian oil on Thursday by dismissing them as irrelevant, claiming Russia will “not face any particular problems.”

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin oversaw exercises of his nuclear forces from the Kremlin on Wednesday.

Reports surfaced late on Tuesday that Russia and America indefinitely postponed a proposed in-person meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian strongman Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told NBC News that he is “ready” to engage Russian strongman Vladimir Putin directly to negotiate an end to Russia’s invasion of his country, potentially at a proposed summit in Hungary, the state outlet Ukrinform reported on Sunday.

The vice president of research at Freedom House, which is mostly funded by the U.S. taxpayer via the State Department, attended a panel ahead of the 2024 presidential election in which he accused Donald Trump of promoting a “dangerous” ideology that “assumes a level of violence,” and compared the then-former president to Vladimir Putin.

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky called for President Donald Trump to apply more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin.

On Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) stated that Vladimir Putin engages in BS by saying that it’s an act of war every time NATO or the

WASHINGTON–President Donald Trump announced that he told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Friday that it is time for the killing in the Russia-Ukraine war to stop after sharing the same sentiment with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was asked “what specific concessions” he would be willing to make in order to bring the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine to an end. During a meeting between President Donald Trump and Zelensky at the

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday boasted that Budapest “is essentially the only place in Europe today” where President Donald Trump could hold a face-to-face meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, “primarily because Hungary is almost the only pro-peace country.”