“China will not even be mentioned or discussed,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social platform. “How disgraceful it is that the discredited media can make up such lies. Anyway, the story is completely untrue!!!” Trump’s comments were then reposted on X by Musk, who called the New York Times “pure propaganda” and…
Donald’s Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday night in Moscow as the White House pushes the Kremlin to accept a ceasefire agreement in Ukraine. “The meeting between Witkoff and President Vladimir Putin will take place in a closed format this evening,” Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov said in…
But the Ukrainians have struggled to hold onto it amid a Russian counterattack that has seen villages and settlements slowly come back under the control of Moscow. Russia this week claimed to have recaptured the majority of the seized territory, including the town of Sudzha, Kyiv’s biggest prize, along with hundreds of Ukrainian soldiers. Putin —…
Elon Musk has accused Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat, of being a “traitor” for visiting Ukraine and advocating for the Eastern European country amid its ongoing war with Russia. Newsweek reached out for comment to Kelly’s office and X, the Musk-owned social media platform formerly known as Twitter, via email on Monday. Why It…
Under the plan outlined by Starmer, France and the U.K. would lead talks on building a “coalition of the willing” to offer security guarantees to Ukraine in case a cease-fire is reached. The two countries have for weeks been involved in building a proposal to deploy peacekeeping troops to Ukraine after a hoped-for truce has…
Later on Monday, the U.S. voted once again alongside Russia on a U.S.-backed U.N. Security Council resolution calling for a “swift end” to the war in Ukraine — without, however, labeling the Kremlin as an aggressor or affirming Ukraine’s territorial integrity. That resolution was approved without the support of five European Security Council members, including Serbia….
Roth, a member of the center-left Social Democrats, who are running behind the conservative Christian Democrats in polls ahead of Sunday’s national election, also described the new U.S. government’s tone as a “worst-case scenario.” “The transatlantic relations are over,” Roth added, as he emphasized that Trump’s increasing alignment with Putin left Europe “home alone” and…
The new Trump administration, however, has appeared to give up much of its negotiating leverage over Russia unilaterally. Speaking at NATO headquarters on Feb. 12, U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that the U.S. would not accept NATO membership for Ukraine or provide peacekeeping troops, and warned the country would not return to its pre-2014…
On Monday, Ukraine and the UAE signed an economic cooperation partnership, opening free trade, Zelenskyy said. He added that he will be traveling to Turkey on Tuesday, when Russia and the U.S. are expected to meet in Riyadh, and only arrive in Saudi Arabia the following day. “So, once again, my visits have nothing in…
A date for the meeting “hasn’t been set” but it will happen in the “not too distant future,” Trump added. He suggested the meeting would involve Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. “We know the crown prince, and I think it’d be a very good place to meet.” Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov also said Wednesday…