One person familiar with Friday’s discussion pointed out Surgutneftegas, Putin’s personal company, has not been targeted yet and predicted: “If their [Russia’s] entire oil sphere could be squeezed it would have some chance of bringing Putin to the table.” A senior U.K. official separately added that the U.S. action had been “a really important new…
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, as they meet to negotiate for an end to the war in Ukraine, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, U.S., August 15, 2025. Kevin Lamarque | Reuters There was a stony silence from Moscow a day after the U.S. President Donald Trump criticized Russian…
BRUSSELS – NATO is stepping up aerial surveillance in the Baltic Sea, while France, Germany and Sweden are bolstering Denmark’s air defenses ahead of two summits in Copenhagen this week over a series of troubling drone incidents near the country’s airports and military bases. The number of serious airspace violations in Europe has spiked this…
Intrusions into NATO’s airspace blamed on Russia reached an unprecedented scale this month, raising questions about whether the Kremlin is trying to test the alliance’s willingness and ability to respond to a direct attack or divert its attention and resources from the war in Ukraine. Russia has been encroaching on its NATO neighbors’ airspace for…
Once the reporter finished her question on the the GPS jamming, Trump continued: “Nobody knows where it came from, but they did take away her ability to use the phone.” He added: “You know, sometimes that’s a good thing. Sometimes if it happened to me, I’d be very happy.” Beneath the joke, he was unexpectedly au…
NATO Chief Mark Rutte has issued a chilling warning to the West saying that China and Russia are rapidly expanding their militaries at an unprecedented pace. With Russia expected to roll out 1,500 tanks, 3,000 armored vehicles, and hundreds of missiles this year, and China already commanding the world’s largest navy, the message is clear…
“At the request of President Zelenskyy, I will join the meeting with President Trump and other European leaders in the White House tomorrow,” von der Leyen said in a statement, prior to receiving the Ukrainian leader in Brussels for a virtual summit of the Coalition of the Willing, the informal grouping of European countries pushing…
War-weary Ukrainians desperate for a ceasefire War-weary Ukrainians desperate for a ceasefire 02:24 European and NATO leaders will join Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for his crucial meeting with President Trump on Monday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday. The move in relation to the key White House meeting is an apparent…
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Saturday that he plans to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington next week after Trump’s summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin ended without an agreement to end the war in Ukraine. Zelenskyy said he held a “long and substantive” conversation with Trump on Saturday after the…
Moscow claims it’s transferring Ukrainians to safety from the conflict, yet refuses to return the children to their relatives, putting them into the adoption system as orphans instead and immersing them in Russian propaganda. Recently, the Trump administration made it even harder to track and retrieve Ukrainian children in Russia after it disbanded Yale University’s…