4 h. ago Warm handshakes and an invitation to Moscow: The key takeaways from Putin and Trump’s summit in Alaska

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky is due to meeting Trump in Washington next week after the Alaska summit ended without a deal

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5 h. ago People mock Donald Trump after 'delusional' reaction to Vladimir Putin's Moscow invite

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met for the first time in years on Friday as the US President arrived in Alaska to discuss the Ukrainian War with the Russian leader

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5 h. ago Trump was in 'disbelief' over Putin's Moscow invite but key sign shows he 'will be going'

EXCLUSIVE: Donald Trump has met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska for talks on a Ukraine ceasefire, with a body language expert detailing what the two leaders said

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7 h. ago Putin stuns Trump as he breaks into English to make surprise Moscow offer after leaders announced 'no deal' on ending Ukraine war

Trump didn't appeared to have been caught off guard by his Russian counterpart, but winged an answer that was both encouraging and non-committal.

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12 h. ago He rolled out the red carpet for an indicted war criminal and all Trump got was an invitation to Moscow

Putin humiliated Trump, agreed no ceasefire, and now the U.S. President has to sell that to his allies, Sam Kiley, World Affairs Editor, explains

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13 h. ago Trump says Xi told him China will not invade Taiwan while he is in office

US president says Chinese counterpart told him ‘I am very patient and China is very patient’The US president, Donald Trump, has said that his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, told him China would not invade Taiwan while Trump is in office.Trump made the comments in an interview with Fox News on Friday, ahead of talks with the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, over Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. Continue reading...

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14 h. ago Trump gives awkward response to Putin’s invite to Moscow at Alaska summit

Donald Trump gave a somewhat awkward response to Vladimir Putin’s invite to Moscow following their meeting in Alaska.

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14 h. ago Trump and Putin peace talks end in NO DEAL as Vlad floats Moscow meetup

The US President ended the summit saying there's 'no deal until there's a deal' after confessing there were 'still things to be agreed to' following peace negotiations

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14 h. ago Putin invites Trump to Moscow as they seal Ukraine 'agreement' but details remain a secret

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met in Alaska on Friday (August 15) and ended up making an "agreement" with one another but would not state the details to the media at this time

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32 h. ago Ukrainian defenses face a challenge as Russian troops make gains ahead of the Putin

Days before the leaders of Russia and the U.S. hold a summit meeting in Alaska, Moscow’s forces breached Ukrainian lines in a series of infiltrations this week in the country’s industrial heartland of Donetsk

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4 d. ago Land swaps with Russia are not only unpopular in Ukraine. They're also illegal

A peace deal that requires Kyiv to accept swapping Ukrainian territory with Russia would not only be deeply unpopular

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7 d. ago Zelenskyy rejects formally ceding Ukrainian territory, says Kyiv must be part of any negotiations

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy dismissed the planned summit between U_S_ President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, warning that any peace deal excluding Kyiv would lead to “dead solutions.”

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9 d. ago Trump could meet Putin for Ukraine war talks ‘as soon as next week’

Summit with Russian leader would follow ‘great progress’ made by special envoy Steve Witkoff during Moscow visit Donald Trump could meet Vladimir Putin as soon as next week to discuss the war in Ukraine, White House officials have said, although senior administration officials have warned that serious “impediments” remain to achieving a ceasefire.White House officials briefed US media that Trump would seek a summit with Putin after the US special envoy Steve Witkoff met the Russian leader at the Kremlin on Wednesday. After that meeting, Trump claimed “great progress was made” during the talks on ending the war in Ukraine. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump’s envoy Witkoff will bring back only humiliation from his meeting with Putin

Steve Witkoff - the president’s international diplomatic Mr Fixit - has failed to bring peace to the Middle East or deliver on Trump’s boast to end the war in Ukraine in 24 hours, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

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1 week ago US special envoy Steve Witkoff meets Putin in Moscow as Russia strikes Ukrainian gas facility – Europe live

Donald Trump has set a Friday deadline for progress on ending the Ukraine war, after which Russia could face increased US sanctionsWe are getting first pictures from inside the Kremlin showing Russia’s Putin welcoming Witkoff for their talks.Earlier today, Witkoff also went for a walk through Zaryadye Park near the Kremlin with Kirill Dmitriev, the Russian president’s envoy for investment and economic cooperation, AP reported pointing to footage aired by Tass. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Trump envoy Witkoff meets Putin in Moscow ahead of US ultimatum

US president has set Friday deadline for Russia to agree peace or face new sanctions

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1 week ago US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow for talks with Vladimir Putin – Europe live

Talks between the two men come ahead of this Friday’s deadline set by Donald Trump for ending the war in UkraineOver in Poland, the inauguration ceremony of the country’s new president, Karol Nawrocki, will start in just under an hour at 10am local time (9am London).42-year-old Nawrocki narrowly won the presidential election in June, defying the polls and beating the Oxford-educated liberal Warsaw mayor Rafał Trzaskowski who was widely regarded as the clear favourite to replace the conservative incumbent Andrzej Duda stepping down after two terms. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Vladimir Putin could end Russian aerial bombardment of Ukraine to avoid Trump's economic sanctions

US President Donald Trump 's peace envoy, Steve Witkoff, is expected to travel to Moscow imminently ahead of Friday's deadline for Russia to agree a ceasefire with Ukraine.

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1 week ago Trial begins for suspects in 2024 Moscow concert hall attack that killed 149 people

A trial has begun under tight security for 19 defendants accused of involvement in last year’s shooting rampage in a Moscow concert hall that killed 149 people and wounded over 600 in one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in years

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3 w. ago Ukraine proposes new round of peace talks with Russia next week

Volodymyr Zelenskyy reiterates willingness to meet the Russian president Vladimir Putin face to faceKyiv has proposed to Moscow a new round of peace talks next week, Ukraine’s president Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Saturday, after negotiations stalled in early June.Two rounds of talks in Istanbul between Moscow and Kyiv failed to result in any progress towards a ceasefire, instead yielding large-scale prisoner exchanges and deals to return the bodies of killed soldiers. Continue reading...

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