Russia’s top diplomat warned Saturday against “trying to fight to victory with a nuclear power,” delivering a U.N. General Assembly speech packed with condemnations of what Russia sees as Western machinations in Ukraine and elsewhere — including inside the United Nations itself. Three days after Russian President Vladimir Putin aired a shift in his country’s…
Former President Donald Trump on Friday told Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a meeting in New York City that, if reelected, he believes he could end the Russia-Ukraine war with a resolution that’s “good for both sides.” “We have a very good relationship. I also have a very good relationship with President Putin and you…
Former President Trump met Friday with Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy as the two leaders sought to mend their sometimes rocky relationship. Zelenskyy looked uncomfortable during a brief appearance in front of reporters ahead of the sit-down at Trump Tower, especially when the former president boasted of his cozy friendship with Russian president Vladimir Putin, the…
Vladimir Putin’s statement that Moscow could widen its rules for nuclear weapon use may have redrawn the red line in his atomic intimidation, but is also likely a bluff, experts have told Newsweek. Soon after his full-scale invasion, the Russian president had previously said that countries that interfered in Ukraine would face consequences “never seen…
Saudi Arabia is set to ramp up oil production in a blow to Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s war machine and his invasion of Ukraine. Saudi Arabia is prepared to abandon its $100-a-barrel crude oil price target as it moves to increase output, signaling its acceptance of lower prices, according to the Financial Times. This decision…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday warned that Russia was changing its rules towards nuclear weapons, effectively lowering the threshold at which it might use them. Experts said the threat was designed to scare the United States and its allies at a time when Ukraine is pressuring NATO members to allow it to use their…
MOSCOW (AP) — Changes in Russia’s nuclear doctrine are intended to discourage Ukraine’s Western allies from supporting attacks on Russia, the Kremlin said Thursday. The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that the revisions in the document announced by President Vladimir Putin are a “warning signal to those countries about the consequences in case of…
Russian President Vladimir Putin at an expanded Prosecutor General’s Office meeting on March 26, 2024, in Moscow. Contributor | Getty Images News | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin announced proposed changes to Moscow’s rule book on the use of nuclear weapons in another thinly-veiled warning to Western nations that continue to back Kyiv in…
Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Russia could respond with nuclear weapons if it were attacked with conventional arms in the latest changes to the country’s nuclear doctrine. In a televised meeting of Russia’s Security Council, Putin announced that under the planned revisions, an attack against the country by a non-nuclear power with the…
A Russian missile touted as the “world’s deadliest weapon” failed to launch for the fourth time on Saturday, exploding as it was being refuelled at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome 500 miles north of Moscow. Satellite images showed that the nuclear-capable Sarmat RS-28 missile, nicknamed “Satan-2”, left a crater on the launchpad, with damage visible to surrounding…