Putin, Russia and Ukraine
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President Trump held separate calls with Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss ending the war.
Russia’s close alliance with Belarus is facing a new test as President Alexander Lukashenko has shown reluctance to deepen his role in Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin’s fuel nightmare has worsened as Ukrainian drones set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov and torched depots deep inside Russia. Thursday’s strikes are the latest blows in a punishing months-long campaign that has crippled Russia’s refineries and plunged roughly 50 million people—about a third of the population—into a fuel crisis on a scale not seen since the dying days of the Soviet Union.
These tiny landmasses hold incredible strategic value.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin in which he proposed the leaders meet.
Putin says Russia will honour 'compromises' reached with Trump Ukraine needs to compromise too, he says Putin says Moscow has yet to fire Oreshnik missile for real Sidesteps question about his own future He made his comments to foreign media editors,
Retired Gen. Philip Breedlove says Ukrainian strikes on energy infrastructure force Putin to divert military assets as fuel shortages spread nationwide.
I don’t believe there is anyone in this country whose primary concern is anything other than an end to military hostilities as soon as possible,” he said.
For years, Russia has bet on outlasting Ukraine in a war of attrition. Now, it’s finding out that time isn’t necessarily on its side.
