Trump says Ukraine deal close after envoy Witkoff meets Putin
Moscow, Russia/London, UK/Rome, Italy Reuters US President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff met Russian President Vladimir Putin for three hours in Moscow on Friday to discuss the US plan to end the war in Ukraine, and Trump said the two sides were “very close to a deal,” despite apparent differences in their positions. Trump said […]
Essay: Ukraine war – path to peace looks increasingly narrow as Kyiv’s western backers scramble to focus on their own interests
In an article first published on The Conversation, STEFAN WOLFF and TEYANA MALYARENKO look at the dimming prospects of peace in Ukraine…
Trump and Zelenskiy clash again and US warns it could abandon Ukraine talks
Washington DC, US/London, UK/Paris, France Reuters US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy clashed again on Wednesday on efforts to end the three-year-old war in Ukraine, with the US leader chiding Zelenskiy for refusing to recognize Russia’s occupation of Crimea. Trump’s Vice President JD Vance said it was time for Russia and Ukraine […]
Trump and Putin to discuss power plants, land in talks to end Ukraine war
Washington DC, US Reuters US President Donald Trump said he would speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin on Tuesday morning about ending the Ukraine war, with territorial concessions by Kyiv and control of the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant likely to feature prominently in the talks. “What’s happening in Ukraine is not good, but we’re going to […]
Russia arrests two church figures over alleged Ukrainian plot to kill priest close to Putin
Reuters Russia’s FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency. There was no immediate reaction from Kyiv to the allegation. Metropolitan Tikhon Shevkunov, newly appointed head of the Crimean Metropolis of […]
Russia clears beaches after Black Sea oil spill, declares emergency in Crimea
Reuters Russia declared a regional state of emergency on Saturday in Crimea, which it seized from Ukraine in 2014, as workers cleared tons of contaminated sand and earth on either side of the Kerch Strait following an oil spill in the Black Sea last month. Mikhail Razvozhaev, the Russia-installed Governor of the city of Sevastopol, […]
Russia accelerates advance in Ukraine’s east
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russian forces are advancing in Ukraine at the fastest rate since the early days of the 2022 invasion, taking an area half the size of London over the past month, analysts and war bloggers said on Tuesday. Russian troops swept through swathes of Ukraine in early 2022 before being pushed back to […]
Russia promises retaliation against US for Ukraine strike on Crimea
Moscow, Russia Reuters The Kremlin on Monday squarely blamed the United States for an attack on Crimea with US-supplied ATACMS missiles that killed at least four people and injured 151, and Moscow formally warned the US ambassador that retaliation would follow. The war in Ukraine has deepened a crisis in relations between Russia and the […]
Russia says US is responsible for deadly Ukrainian attack on Crimea
Moscow, Russia Reuters Russia said on Sunday that the United States was responsible for a Ukrainian attack on the Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula with five US-supplied missiles that killed four people, including two children, and injured 151 more. The Russian Defence Ministry said four of the US-delivered Army Tactical Missile System (ATACMS) missiles, equipped with cluster […]
Essay: 10 years after Putin annexed Crimea, Russia’s grip on the peninsula looks shaky
STEFAN WOLFF, professor of international security at the University of Birmingham, says efforts to integrate the peninsula into Russia have been far from successful…