3 d. ago Kremlin and Trump aides raise nuclear war fears after Ukraine drone strike

Vladimir Putin has warned Russia will respond to Kyiv’s attacks on nuclear-capable aircraft at airfieldsAs Vladimir Putin pledges to retaliate against Ukraine for last weekend’s unprecedented drone attack, Kremlin advisers and figures around Donald Trump have told the US president that the risk of a nuclear confrontation is growing, in an attempt to pressure him to further reduce US support for Ukraine.Kirill Dmitriev, the head of Russia’s sovereign wealth fund and an important intermediary between the Kremlin and Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, called the Ukrainian drone strike an attack on “Russian nuclear assets”, and echoed remarks from Maga-friendly figures warning of the potential for a third world war. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago ‘Looks like Munich 1938’: Eastern bloc hits out at US sympathy for Putin’s anti

Exclusive: Backlash from top Eastern European officials after Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine said Moscow’s opposition to Nato expansion was ‘fair’

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9 d. ago Russia's concern over NATO's expansion is FAIR, Donald Trump's envoy to Ukraine says

The key Trump confidant and former National Security Adviser added the future of NATO enlargement ultimately rests with Trump.

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1 week ago Former Russian president threatens Trump with World War III after Putin criticism

Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg has hit back at ‘reckless’ comments by security official Dmitry Medvedev

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1 week ago Former Russian president threatens Trump with World War 3 after Putin criticism

Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg has hit back at ‘reckless’ comments by security official Dmitry Medvedev

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2 w. ago Trump’s Russia sanctions refusal leaves Europe with few options but to wait

Frustration is growing amid increasing signs US could wash its hands of Ukraine, but some observers counsel patienceGen Keith Kellogg, Donald Trump’s somewhat estranged special envoy on Ukraine, is said by some US diplomats to like to joke that the president did indeed say he would solve the Ukraine crisis in 24 hours, he just never specified which 24 hours.Dark humour may be all that is left to Europeans as they absorb not just Trump’s refusal to impose the promised “bone-crushing sanctions” over Russia’s rejection of a 30-day ceasefire but also the increasing signs that the administration will wash its hands of Ukraine and instead focus on forging a new economic partnership with Russia. Continue reading...

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