President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he “felt it was time” to hit Russia with tougher sanctions, a major escalation amid his latest attempt to pressure Vladimir Putin to end his war against Ukraine. “Today is a very important day in terms of what we’re doing. They are tremendous sanctions. They are very big,” Trump…
Donald Trump no longer plans to meet Vladimir Putin in Hungary, the White House confirmed. The US president will not meet the Russian leader in the “immediate future” after a phone call between negotiators from both countries to prepare for peace talks went sour. On Thursday, Trump said he would meet Putin in Budapest once…
Photo by: Presidential Office of Ukraine/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images donald trump and Volodymyr Zelensky They were relatively cordial at a lunch in front of reporters on Friday, but the goodwill reportedly turned into a “shouting fight” when the two leaders disappeared behind closed doors. financial time reported on Sunday that Trump warned the Ukrainian president to accept…
Oil posted its third straight week of losses on Friday as traders grew increasingly concerned about oversupply. West Texas Intermediate (CL=F) was trading at $57.54 a barrel, while Brent futures (BZ=F) were trading at $61.29 a barrel, its lowest level since May. WTI and Brent closed the week with a drop of more than 2%….
By Vladimir Soldatkin, Andrew Osborn and Suleiman Al-Khalidi MOSCOW (Reuters) – Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday that he would honor all previous agreements reached between his country and Moscow, a promise that suggests Moscow’s two main military bases in Syria are safe. Sharaa, who once headed al Qaeda’s Syrian…
By Andrés Osborn MOSCOW (Reuters) – Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what appeared to be the start of a rapprochement between the United States and Russia, a senior Russian diplomat has raised doubts that the “spirit of Alaska” is still alive….
Russian President Vladimir Putin, left, and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon talk during a signing ceremony after their talks at the Palace of the Nation in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, Thursday, Oct. 9, 2025. (Kristina Kormilitsyna, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP) Source link
(Reuters) -President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday that Ukrainian forces were inflicting heavy losses in a counteroffensive in the eastern Donetsk region, the main theater of Ukraine’s more than three-and-a-half-year war. Zelenskiy’s account, based on a report from Ukraine’s top commander, contrasts with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin’s speech to senior Russian officials a day earlier,…
