Washington: U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he did not think it was practical for Ukraine to join NATO and that it was unlikely Ukraine will get back all of its land. Trump discussed the war in Ukraine on Wednesday in phone calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in … Read more
Donald Trump said he will hold a first meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia. Washington: US President Donald Trump said he will hold a first meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Saudi Arabia as he pushes for an end to Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. “We’ll meet in Saudi Arabia,” Trump told … Read more
Washington DC: Signalling an American policy shift favouring Moscow, US President Donald Trump has floated the idea that Ukraine “may be Russian someday”. This came days before his vice-president JD Vance was set to meet Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Nearly three years after the Kremlin invaded Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin’s forces are making steady progress … Read more
Washington: US President Donald Trump said that he has talked to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the phone to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine, the New York Post reported late on Saturday. In an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday Trump said that he had “better not say,” when asked how … Read more
The leaders of Ukraine and Russia signaled that their previous refusal to talk to each other has softened, following US President Donald Trump’s promise to end Moscow’s full-scale invasion. In an interview late Tuesday with television host Piers Morgan, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky reiterated his preparedness to talk to his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin to … Read more
Zelensky said he would agree to direct talks with Vladimir Putin to end the countries’ three-year war. Kyiv: Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview posted Tuesday that he would agree to direct talks with Russia’s Vladimir Putin to end the countries’ three-year war. Asked how he would feel if he sat opposite Putin … Read more
Kyiv: Ukraine believes North Korean soldiers fighting alongside Russia’s army on the Kursk front line have been “withdrawn” after suffering heavy losses, a military spokesman told AFP on Friday. Western, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence agencies say Pyongyang deployed more than 10,000 troops to support Russia’s forces fighting in its western Kursk region, where Ukraine … Read more
Zelensky’s statement came after Putin ruled out direct talks with his Ukrainian counterpart. Kyiv: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday that Vladimir Putin was “afraid” of negotiations on ending the Ukraine war, after the Russian president ruled out direct talks with his Ukrainian counterpart. “Today, Putin once again confirmed that he is afraid of negotiations, … Read more
Moscow: Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that talks with Ukraine were possible but not with its President Volodymyr Zelensky, whom he deemed “illegitimate”. US President Donald Trump has put pressure on both sides to end the nearly three-year conflict, saying last week that Zelensky wanted to negotiate a “deal” to stop the fighting. “If … Read more
A new school textbook that likens Russia’s war in Ukraine to the Soviet struggle against the Nazis and says Russia was “forced” to send troops into Ukraine was presented in Moscow on Monday. President Vladimir Putin casts the war, which Moscow officially calls a “Special Military Operation”, as a difficult but necessary fight against a … Read more
Washington: President Donald Trump suggested that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy should not have resisted Russia’s invasion, citing the significant power imbalance between the two nations, in a Fox News interview. “Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful,” Trump said, emphasising that Russia’s superior military might made resistance futile. “He shouldn’t … Read more
New Delhi: The United States has clarified to India that tankers loaded with Russian oil have to discharge by February 27 under the latest sanctions targeting Moscow’s oil revenue, India’s oil secretary Pankaj Jain told reporters at an event. Washington this month imposed sweeping sanctions targeting Russian producers and tankers, disrupting supply from the world’s … Read more