President Vladimir Putin has called up 160,000 men aged 18-30, Russia’s highest number of conscripts since 2011, as the country moves to expand the size of its military. The spring call-up for a year’s military service came several months after Putin said Russia should increase the overall size of its military to almost 2.39 million…
Russia says it is still “working with the US” after President Trump said he was “angry” and “pissed off” with Vladimir Putin. In its first response to Trump’s criticism of the Russian president, the Kremlin tried to play down the tensions between the two leaders. “We continue working with the US side, first of all,…
Donald Trump has said he is “very angry” and “pissed off” with Russian President Vladimir Putin after weeks of attempting to negotiate a ceasefire in Ukraine. In an NBC News interview, the US president said he was angry with Putin for attacking Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s credibility, and threatened to impose a 50% tariff on…
Vladimir Putin has suggested that Ukraine should temporarily be placed under UN control to elect what he called a more “competent” government. It is the latest attempt by the Russian president to challenge the legitimacy of the Kyiv government. Ukraine accused Putin of proposing “crazy” ideas to delay further movement towards a peace deal –…
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a video-linked ceremony to launch the Project 885M Yasen-M nuclear-powered submarine Perm, in the Arctic Circle port city of Murmansk on March 27, 2025. Sergei Karpukhin | Afp | Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin warned it would be…
In the run up to today’s call, Donald Trump made a big deal of his conversation with Russia’s Vladimir Putin. But the results look like there’s little to shout about. The Russian president has given the US leader just enough to claim that he made progress towards peace in Ukraine, without making it look like…
Tom Bateman BBC State Department Correspondent Reporting fromat the White House Watch: The BBC’s Tom Bateman unpacks Russia’s ceasefire conditions President Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate and full ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, following a call with US President Donald Trump. The Russian leader declined to sign up…
U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin at a joint press conference after their summit on July 16, 2018, in Helsinki, Finland. Chris McGrath | Getty Images News | Getty Images U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are set to join a call Tuesday to discuss a 30-day ceasefire proposal to pause…
President Trump said he would speak with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Tuesday, as he continued to express optimism that Russia would agree to a proposal to halt fighting in Ukraine for 30 days. “We want to see if we can bring that war to an end,” Mr. Trump told reporters aboard Air…
US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin will speak in coming days, as talks continue over a possible ceasefire in the three-year war in Ukraine. US envoy Steve Witkoff, who met with Putin on Thursday in Moscow, told CNN that he expected that “there will be a call with both presidents this…
