Russia open to peace with Ukraine but ‘our goals’ must be achieved, says Kremlin
Comments come after Trump gives Moscow deadline to agree to ceasefire or face tougher sanctions
Vladimir Putin
Volodymyr Zelenskiy offers Russia more peace talks next week
Ukraine and Russia have held two rounds of talks in Istanbul over the past five months
Trump’s threats against Russia are a charade meant to buy Putin time
Worldview: Trump basically gave Putin 50 days’ protection from new sanctions, says Phillips Payson O’Brien, professor of strategic studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland
German and UK leaders sign mutual defence pact as US steps back
Treaty includes a pledge by both countries to regard a threat against one as a threat against the other
Kremlin calls for more US pressure on Ukraine and lambasts ‘militaristic’ Europe
But drop in drone strikes during Trump envoy’s visit to Kyiv shows Russia is ‘afraid of America’, Zelenskiy says
Moscow rejects ‘enormous’ and ‘indecent’ western pressure over Ukraine
Some in Ukraine question why Trump gave Russia 50 more days to bombard them
The Irish Times view on Trump and Ukraine: a step in the right direction
Europeans and other western allies will be pleased that Trump’s new policy appears to return the US to the common front against Russia
Trump agrees arms deal for Ukraine and gives Russia ‘50 days’ to make peace or face tariffs
US leader says phone calls with Vladimir Putin are ‘very pleasant - and then the missiles go off’
Trump offers to send more arms to Ukraine via Nato allies
US president appears to cool on Vladimir Putin and welcomes move for further sanctions against Russia
Russia launches deadly drone attacks on Ukrainian capital Kyiv
At least two killed in missile and drone attack as US joins talks on ‘coalition of the willing’
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Europe letter: A small geothermal plant could heat up to a fifth of homes in Aarhus in the next few years
Sanctioned Russian ship intercepted by Coast Guard after docking in Louth
Shtandart is subject to European sanctions imposed following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine
Russia attacks Ukraine with 700 drones after Trump vows to send Kyiv more weapons
‘He’s very nice all the time, but it turns out to be meaningless,’ says Trump of Putin
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Rachel Reeves has been castigated for crying, but sometimes tears are the only way to react rationally
Kremlin cautious on Trump pledge to send more US weapons to Ukraine
Delivery of some weapons was held up last week over concerns that US stockpiles were low
Trump and Zelenskiy discuss arms supplies after Russia’s biggest drone attack on Ukraine
Kyiv accuses Vladimir Putin of ‘publicly humiliating’ Donald Trump as attack comes hours after the two leaders spoke by phone
‘Doubts’ about US commitment to European security should bring EU and Ukraine closer, says Zelenskiy
Ursula von der Leyen says more pressure needs to be put on Russia to end war in Ukraine
Germany to help Ukraine make weapons more quickly
Move will help Kyiv negotiate more strongly in peace talks, German foreign minister says
Ukraine claims advances in Sumy halted as Lavrov says Nato spending rise will not affect Russian security
Russian foreign minister says decision to increase Nato defence spending to 5% of allies’ GDP not ‘significant’
The idea that the Kremlin has kompromat on Trump seems increasingly plausible
If the White House capitulates to Putin on Ukraine, it will grossly and perhaps fatally betray the principles on which Nato was founded
Russian missile attack kills 17 in southeastern Ukraine
Seventeen killed and more than 200 injured in southeastern Ukraine in latest Russian missile attack
Where were China and Russia when Iran needed them most?
Stability in the Middle East is more valuable to Beijing than any cost or distraction a war with Iran might create for the US
Iran fires missiles at key US base in Qatar
Doha appears to have had advance warning of attack which followed US bombing or Iranian nuclear sites
US-Iran: Putin says Washington strikes are pushing world to a ‘very dangerous line’
Russian president meets Iranian foreign minister Abbas Araqchi Araqchi in the Kremlin
Germany floats return to conscription if volunteer plan fails
Berlin aims to more than double army reserves in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine
Belarus opposition leader freed after nearly five years in jail
Syarhei Tsikhanouski was arrested shortly after announcing candidacy in rigged 2020 election won by Alexander Lukashenko
Israel says it killed veteran Iran commander as both sides attack
Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian warns of ‘more devastating’ retaliation if Israel’s attacks continue
Perfect Storm by Thane Gustafson: A thorough study of the use and abuse of sanctions on Russia, and what could happen next
The author, an expert on the geopolitics of energy, is particularly interesting on the impact of sanctions on the global oil industry
Russian minister says country’s economy is ‘on the verge’ of recession
Russia and Ukraine exchange captured soldiers but drone attacks target Kharkiv and Odesa
Israel-Iran war: Gulf states scramble to secure diplomatic solution
War could destabilise region and destroy decades of hard-won economic advancement
Europe should stop whining and ‘act like the superpower’ it is, former US general warns
Ben Hodges tells a London audience that Nato members on continent should prepare for future Russian strikes on their air and sea ports
Flags at half mast in Kyiv as death toll from Russian strike reaches 28
Russia sent 440 drones and fired 32 missiles during its deadliest strike on the capital this year
Trump renews embrace of Putin amid ongoing rift with allies
US president’s troubled history with G7 alliance repeats itself
Is Russia’s war-driven economy approaching its 1989 moment?
With the Ukraine war, Putin might have backed himself into an economic cul-de-sac
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