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…
London — Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy began his third visit to Britain this year with a highly symbolic show of support from one of his country’s most vociferous Western partners. Zelenskyy was greeted on Friday by both rare British autumn sunshine and King Charles III at Windsor Castle, ahead of a summit with Prime Minister…
United States President Donald Trump has suggested freezing the war in Ukraine at its current front lines and using these lines as a starting point for future negotiations over territory. Peace talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have so far stalled despite Trump boasting during his presidential campaign last year that he could…
Ukraine’s leader welcomed a raft of new economic sanctions against Russia being imposed by the Trump administration and the European Union on Thursday, calling the increased pressure on Moscow “very important.” CBS News correspondent Ramy Inocencio says the new U.S. sanctions, announced by the Treasury on Wednesday, essentially block Americans from dealing with anyone at…
Trump said he hoped he and Xi could ‘work out a lot of our doubts and questions’ after months of trade tensions. United States President Donald Trump will meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of a major regional economic summit being held in South Korea next week, the White House has confirmed. White House…
China and India are pulling back from buying Russian oil after President Trump sanctioned two of Moscow’s biggest exporters Wednesday. Reuters reported Thursday that Chinese state-run petroleum firms PetroChina, Sinopec, CNOOC and Zhenhua Oil had suspended purchases of seaborne Russian oil after the Treasury Department announced sanctions on Rosneft and Lukoil, citing Moscow’s “lack of serious commitment…
Published on: Oct 23, 2025 05:09 pm IST The European Union on Thursday announced new economic sanctions on Russia, joining the US. The European Union on Thursday announced new economic sanctions on Russia, joining the US, which had imposed fresh penalties on the Russian oil industry the day before. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky talks to…
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…
U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he canceled a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, citing a lack of progress in diplomatic efforts and a sense that the timing was off. “We canceled the meeting with President Putin — it just didn’t feel right to me,” Trump told reporters at the White House….
Administration officials said a meeting between President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin has been called off.Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Washington seeking more military support. Before that, Trump had announced he and Putin planned to meet within two weeks in Hungary to discuss the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, the Kremlin…