Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks in the Kremlin on Sunday with Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to Moscow by an EU leader since Russia’s all-out invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for talks with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump at any time he revealed Thursday during a lengthy year-end press conference.
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin insisted on Thursday that Russia achieved its strategic goals with its military presence in Syria even with the collapsed of the regime of ally Bashar Assad – who has since fled to Moscow, where Putin promised to meet with him soon.
Selcuk Bayraktar, chief technology officer of Turkey’s drone powerhouse Baykar, said on Thursday that Turkish companies now control 65 percent of the worldwide market for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV).
Praised President Trump for his determination, paying the compliments while also reiterating his calls for the world to unify behind Kyiv.
Russia’s top Kremlin spokesman confirmed on Monday that strongman Vladimir Putin made the ultimate decision to grant political asylum to former Syrian tyrant Bashar Assad and his family.
Ousted former Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has found asylum in Russia after fleeing his country on Sunday, according to Kremlin sources quoted in the international media.
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian says relations with Russia have deteriorated beyond the “point of no return.”
The Humanitarian Research Lab at Yale University published a study on Tuesday that found at least 314 children kidnapped from Ukraine by Russian forces have been offered for adoption on websites funded by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Carlson expressed worry at a lack of communication between Russia and America leading the world to a potential “nuclear holocaust”.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky conceded in an interview on Tuesday that Ukraine does not have “enough forces” to restore sovereignty over Russian-occupied Crimea and “must seek diplomatic means” to end the Russian invasion and regain its land.
Russian President Vladimir Putin approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine.
Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), which has been designated a terrorist organization by the United States, launched a surprise offense in Idlib province on Thursday.
An anonymous North Korean military source claimed to the specialized outlet Daily NK on Thursday that the communist regime had adopted a policy of “strict secrecy” surrounding soldiers allegedly dying on the front lines of the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Alexander Vindman, a former National Security Council staffer who sparked the impeachment President-elect Donald Trump over Ukraine aid, attacked Elon Musk as a conspiracy theorist after claiming Musk was controlled by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Putin said strikes into Russia using Western missiles will “of course” be answered, with “decision-making centers in Kyiv” a target.
Germany is working on a ‘bunker plan’ including a smartphone app to direct citizens to the nearest shelter in case of an emergency.
Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel has defended the gas deals she made with Russia saying they helped German firms and kept the peace with Moscow, revealing the strategy in her memoir Freedom, released in 30 languages on Tuesday.
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed Russian President Vladimir Putin plans to visit India in the near future, making his first trip to India since launching the brutal full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
Joe Rogan criticized President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky for trying to “start World War III” days after Biden gave the approval for Ukraine to use long-range missiles to fire into Russia.
Former National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Republicans had to “disabuse themselves of this strange affection for Vladimir Putin.”
Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI), President-elect Donald Trump’s pick to lead the intelligence community, was “compromised.”
NATO and Ukraine will hold emergency talks Tuesday after Russia attacked a central city with an experimental, hypersonic ballistic missile that escalated the nearly 33-month-old war.
Ukraine says the “experimental intermediate-range ballistic missile” fired at them carried 36 “submunitions” and was travelling at Mach 11.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused outgoing President Joe Biden of trying to “muck things up” to hand a more volatile world over to successor and predecessor Donald Trump in remarks on Friday.
Claims ballistic strike on Ukraine was debut of new ‘unstoppable’ weapon as he blamed West for turning his invasion into a global war.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed a Russian attack using a “new” model of missile but said he was not sure if it was an ICBM.
South Korean lawmaker Lee Seong-kweun, a member of his parliament’s intelligence committee, said on Wednesday that about 10,900 North Korean mercenary soldiers have been deployed to Kursk for a counteroffensive against Ukrainian forces.
A Gallup poll finds 52% of Ukrainians want the war to end as quickly as possible, versus 38% who want to fight until victory.
Top Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Wednesday that strongman Vladimir Putin is “ready for talks” to end the Ukraine war with American President-elect Donald Trump.
Russia claims to have sustained a strike against a military depot by American-made ATACMS ballistic missiles early Tuesday morning.
Russia updates doctrine, in some circumstances attacks with conventional weapons will be considered sufficient to launch nuclear retaliation.
Russia’s demands for Ukraine go beyond peace deals or territorial compromises, with “full control over Ukraine” being a non-negotiable goal for Moscow, according to Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin.
Allowing long-range strikes deep inside Russia for the first time would “inevitably lead to a serious escalation”, Kremlin figures warn.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expressed hope that the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine would “end sooner” under President-elect Donald Trump’s administration.
The German government has collapsed, but Chancellor Olaf Scholz has picked this moment to reach out to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Turkish Trade Minister Omer Bolat said Thursday that his country has been offered “the status of partner membership” by BRICS, the China-dominated economic bloc whose founding members also include Russia, India, and Brazil.
President-Elect Donald Trump advised Russian President Vladimir Putin in a phone call on Thursday not to escalate the war in Ukraine and reminded him of Washington’s sizable military presence in Europe, according to the Washington Post.
President Elect Donald J. Trump spoke with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz with the aim of restoring peace to the European continent and bringing about an end to the war in Ukraine.
The Kremlin expressed very mild optimism on Wednesday for possible improvements in relations between the United States and Russia under the second Trump administration, although the Russians remained skeptical that Trump can deliver on his promise to make peace in Ukraine.
