3 h. ago Putin praises Trump for 'energetic and sincere efforts' to bring peace in Ukraine as historic meeting between the two men nears

Vladimir Putin has praised Donald Trump for his administration's 'energetic and sincere efforts' to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine, ahead of their face-to-face meeting in Alaska. 

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4 h. ago Putin hails Trump’s ‘energetic and sincere’ efforts to end Ukraine war

Russian president appeals to US counterpart’s desire to be feted ahead of high-stakes Alaska summit

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5 h. ago Vladimir Putin praises ‘sincere efforts’ from US administration to end Ukraine war – Europe live

Russian president holds meeting with top officials as he prepares to meet US president at 11.30am local time in Anchorage, Alaska, on Friday 15 Augustin BerlinGerman chancellor Friedrich Merz’s stab at heading up Ukraine diplomacy has received measured praise at home, with a perception that Donald Trump’s declarations after Wednesday’s video conference sounded slightly less alarming to European ears than before. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Putin refusal to meet Zelenskyy could derail summit with Trump

Washington and Moscow issue mixed messages about whether bilateral talks would require three-way follow-up with KyivEfforts to arrange a face-to-face meeting between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may be derailed by the Kremlin leader’s refusal to meet Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a potential White House precondition to the high-stakes summit.The mixed messaging on Thursday over a potential summit between Putin and Trump – with White House and Kremlin officials sometimes contradicting each other about the leaders’ demands and the status of the planning – suggested a chaotic new chapter in Trump’s haphazard efforts to negotiate a ceasefire to the war in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Kremlin denies Putin agreed to trilateral meeting with Trump and Zelenskyy

Moscow says preparations under way for possible meeting with Trump but dismisses US talk of three-way summitEurope live – latest updatesThe Kremlin has said planning is under way for a possible meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump next week – but denied the Russian leader had agreed to a subsequent meeting with the US president and Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy.On Wednesday Putin met Trump’s special envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin, and reports from Washington suggested he had agreed to meet first with Trump and then in a trilateral format, as part of US efforts to bring about the end of the war in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump hails ‘great progress’ after Witkoff meets Putin for talks on Ukraine

US president calls meeting ‘highly productive’ amid unconfirmed reports on halt to long-range strikesDonald Trump has claimed “great progress was made” during talks on ending the war in Ukraine between his special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin on Wednesday.The three-hour talks came two days before a deadline the US president set for Russia to reach a peace deal in the war or face fresh sanctions. Continue reading...

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7 d. ago Trump hails ‘great progress’ in Putin talks – but no sign of end to Ukraine war

Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin met for about three hours in a last-minute bid to seek a breakthrough in the three-and-a-half-year war

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1 week ago Inside Ukraine’s effort to produce more of its own weapons to fight Putin as Trump’s support flip

Askold Krushelnycky examines how Donald Trump’s fluctuating position on the Ukraine war has encouraged Kyiv to look closer to home to produce the weapons it needs to fight Russia

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3 w. ago Inside Russia’s suicide drone factories as Putin ramps up weapon production to pound Ukraine

Inside Russia’s suicide drone factories, production of Shahed drones is being rapidly increased as Vladimir Putin steps up efforts to intensify attacks on Ukraine with expanded weapon supplies.

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3 w. ago Putin's final 'Hail Mary' meatgrinder assault: 160,000 Russian cannon fodder troops mass for advance in last chance to grab Ukrainian land before Trump's 50

Putin intends to seize more Ukrainian territory and believes Russia - which has thus far survived the toughest sanctions imposed by the West - can endure further economic hardship

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4 w. ago Zelenskyy shakes up Ukrainian Cabinet to reinvigorate war effort

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is reshuffling Ukraine's Cabinet to energize the nation and boost weapons production amid the ongoing war with Russia

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4 w. ago Trust in the US is eroding. Now the question isn’t if the dollar will lose supremacy: it’s when | Kenneth Mohammed

De-dollarisation is not a threat to global stability. Countries are simply questioning the rules of a game long rigged in Washington’s favourFor more than eight decades, the US dollar has reigned supreme as the world’s reserve currency – a position cemented at the Bretton Woods Conference in 1944 and reinforced by America’s postwar industrial power and military dominance.Today, that supremacy is facing growing resistance from multiple directions – from African revolutionary movements to economic recalibrations in Europe, and from the counterbalance efforts of Brics nations to the geopolitical entanglements of Ukraine and Israel. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Ukraine hails 'Agent Melania' after Trump admits First Lady explained Putin's lies

Ukrainians have hailed Melania Trump as an unlikely 'undercover agent' after explaining Vladimir Putin's lies to the US President

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