President Trump is considering authorizing fresh funding for Ukraine for the first time since he took office in January, multiple diplomatic sources told CBS News. The sources indicated the new funding could be intended to send a message to Russia, which has pounded Ukraine with drone and missile attacks in recent days. Russia this week…
In one of his most bellicose and provocative remarks as Russia’s war against Ukraine rages on, President Vladimir Putin said late last month that “where the foot of a Russian soldier steps — that is ours.” Moscow’s claims in fact go well beyond the land that its soldiers actually control in Ukraine more than 40…
What Trump is saying about the Russia-Ukraine war – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump this week said he is “not happy” with Russian President Vladimir Putin and pledged to send more U.S. weapons to Ukraine. Charlie D’Agata has more from the Pentagon. Be the first to know Get browser notifications for breaking news,…
KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine said on Friday its drones struck a Russian fighter aircraft plant in the Moscow region and a missile production facility in the Tula region, causing explosions and fires at both. Ukraine’s military said on Telegram the aviation facility in the town of Lukhovitsy, about 135 km (84 miles) southeast of Moscow, produced…
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the odds for a summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping this year were “high” after concluding “constructive” talks with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on the sidelines of a regional meeting. Rubio described the meeting on the sidelines of an Association of Southeast…
‘Positive trend’ in US-Russia ties remains despite Washington’s ‘zigzag’ policy, Moscow says. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov and United States Secretary of State Marco Rubio have met again at the ASEAN foreign ministers’ meeting in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur, according to Russia’s state-run TASS agency, with the war in Ukraine the key focus. The conversation followed…
Donald Trump finally called “bullshit” on Vladimir Putin this week, though nobody seems to quite know what it means. One explanation, and perhaps the best one, is that Trump, belatedly, recognized what has long been apparent to the rest of us: that Putin has been playing him, pretending to talk peace while escalating Russia’s war…
Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, where we dare anyone to start a third party to disrupt the Haltiwanger-Iyengar dichotomy. (Elon Musk is trying to do exactly that to the Democrats and Republicans, which Rishi wrote about this week.) Alright, here’s what’s on tap for the day: Trump’s growing impatience with Putin, more uncertainty…
Trump calls out Putin for stalled peace talks – CBS News Watch CBS News Parts of Ukraine were on fire overnight after Russia launched its largest drone attack on Ukraine since the war unfolded more than three years ago. Just hours earlier, President Trump directly called out Vladimir Putin for stalled peace talks. Weijia Jiang…
Ukrainian officials said Wednesday that two Chinese nationals — a father and a son — had been detained and accused of attempting to illegally transfer classified documents on a key Ukrainian missile system to Beijing. According to a statement by the Ukrainian Prosecutor General’s office, an investigation by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) intelligence…