9 h. ago Trump slaps crippling new sanctions on Russia after snubbing meeting with Putin

President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced major new sanctions on Russia, after his proposed meeting with President Vladimir Putin in Budapest was nixed.

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10 h. ago US sanctions major Russian oil companies and calls for Moscow to accept immediate Ukraine ceasefire – live

Trump says he canceled meeting with Putin because ‘we have good conversations but then they don’t go anywhere’US imposes sanctions on Russian oil over Putin’s ‘refusal’ to end war in UkraineMike Johnson said that he hasn’t spoken with the president about a New York Times report that he is seeking $230m from his own justice department in damages over past federal investigations.“I know that he believes he’s owed that reimbursement. What I heard yesterday was, if he receives it, he was going to consider giving it to charity,” he said. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago NATO scrambles warplanes after devastating Russian strike on Ukraine

The devastating strikes follow reports that a proposed meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump is off after the Russian President refused to halt his war on Ukraine

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35 h. ago Exactly why Donald Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin was cancelled sparking WW3 fears

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin had been set to meet in Hungary's capital of Budapest to discuss bringing an end to the war in Ukraine - but those talks have since been put on ice

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35 h. ago Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hungary 'cancelled' in blow to peace

The United States president will no longer sit down with his Russian counterpart to discuss the war in Ukraine

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37 h. ago Donald Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Hungary 'cancelled', White House confirms

The United States president will no longer sit down with his Russian counterpart to discuss the war in Ukraine

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38 h. ago Trump's meeting with Putin in Hungary is called off 'after bad phone call between US and Russian negotiators'

The decision to call the meeting off was made following discussions between US secretary of state Marco Rubio and Russian foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

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39 h. ago Putin accused of ‘stalling’ over Ukraine peace talks as Trump meeting postponed

European leaders including Sir Keir Starmer said Vladimir Putin was not serious about the prospect of an end to the war with Ukraine.

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48 h. ago European leaders show solidarity with Zelensky ahead of Trump

US President Donald Trump and Russia’s Vladimir Putin are due to meet in Budapest in the coming weeks.

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62 h. ago The Guardian view on Ukraine peace talks: Europe must ensure Zelenskyy can resist Trump’s bullying | Editorial

The US president’s attempts to broker a deal fail to distinguish between the aggressor and the victim. No just agreement is possible on that basisIt wasn’t quite the calamity of February, when Volodymyr Zelenskyy was publicly humiliated in the Oval Office by Donald Trump and his vice-president, JD Vance. But the Ukrainian president’s latest visit to the White House on Friday was, by all accounts, a disquieting experience. Mr Trump’s public musings before the meeting suggested that his stance had hardened towards Vladimir Putin, to the strategically significant extent of being willing to sell long-range Tomahawk missiles to Kyiv. But by the time Mr Zelenskyy arrived in Washington, the US president had changed his mind, instead lecturing his guest on the need to make territorial concessions to Russia.So far, so familiar. Since being re-elected, Mr Trump has repeatedly resiled from following up tough talk on Russia with meaningful action. Faux deadlines for Mr Putin to make substa...

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63 h. ago Putin rejects Trump peace plan after expletive ridden White House meeting with Zelensky

The Kremlin rejected Donald Trump's latest effort to end the war in Ukraine.

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69 h. ago 5 bombshells from Trump and Zelenskyy's 'shouting match' meeting as US leader throws maps

Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelenskyy met ahead of Trump's meeting with Putin this week in Budapest, with the future of the war between Russia and Ukraine on the line

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5 d. ago Trump 'would rather be dead than go to Moscow' but Hungary meeting still 'bizarre'

EXCLUSIVE: Questions popped up after Donald Trump announced he would be meeting with Vladimir Putin in Budapest, but war expert Anthony Glees reveals a few reasons behind the 'bizarre' location

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5 d. ago White House’s Karoline Leavitt and Stephen Cheung say ‘Your mom’ when asked who suggested Hungary for Putin

Trump said he will meet with the Kremlin leader in Budapest to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine

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5 d. ago Could Putin be 'shot down' heading to Trump meeting? Inside Russian leader's 2,000 mile NATO detour

EXCLUSIVE: World-renowned war expert, Professor Anthony Glees, has revealed why both Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin have chosen to meet for upcoming peace talks in Budapest

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5 d. ago Trump in tense meeting with Zelensky as pair clash over Putin's intentions and Ukraine demands Tomahawk missiles

Ukraine's President has arrived at the White House to urge President Trump to arm Ukraine with long-range weapons.

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5 d. ago Watch live: Trump meets Zelensky at White House after Putin’s missile warning

Watch live as Donald Trump meets Volodymyr Zelensky at the White House on Friday (17 October).

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5 d. ago Orbán to speak with Putin as Zelenskyy prepares for White House talks with Trump – Europe live

Trump has said that, after meeting Zelenskyy today, he will hold talks with Putin in HungaryRussia said on Friday it had captured three villages in Ukraine’s eastern Dnipropetrovsk and Kharkiv regions, including areas Kyiv had retaken three years ago in a surprise counteroffensive.The Russian army said its forces had captured the villages of Pishchane and Tykhe in Kharkiv and Pryvillia in Dnipropetrovsk. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Trump hints he will NOT give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles as he prepares to meet Zelensky today following two

Donald Trump has hinted that he will not give Ukraine Tomahawk missiles ahead of his meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky. 

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6 d. ago Trump prepares to meet Zelensky at White House as US President hails 'great progress' after Putin call

Trump calls his conversation with the Russian president ‘very productive’, with the pair agreeing to face-to-face talks in Hungary

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