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According to reports, former US President Donald Trump has disclosed that if re-elected in November, he intends to persuade Kyiv to give up its land, which would put an end to Russia's invasion of Ukraine in just one day.The Washington Post was told that, as part of Trump's plan, Ukraine will be urged to hand over Crimea and the Donbas border region as a step towards putting an end to the conflict."President Trump is the only one talking about stopping the killing," said Trump's campaign...
The RAND corporation’s Samuel Charap and Johns Hopkins University professor Sergey Radchenko published a detailed timeline and analysis of the talks between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators just after the Russian invasion in February 2022 that could have brought the war to an end just weeks after it had begun. Much of the piece confirms or elucidates parts of the narrative that had previously been reported. In the spring of 2022, the two sides appeared relatively close to a deal, one that,...
Russian President Vladimir Putin again raises the subject of potential peace talks, but thumbs down a Switzerland-hosted peace-seeking conference at Ukraine's request
Russia has cautioned that the recent US aid to Ukraine is exacerbating tensions, drawing parallels to historical failures in conflicts like Vietnam and Afghanistan. Following the US House of Representatives’ passage of a $95 billion security assistance package for Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova accused the United States of pushing […]
Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and Israel as “battlefield laboratories” to probe at Western military vulnerabilities, experts told a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee Wednesday. “Together, Russia and Iran are using Ukraine and the Middle East as battlefield laboratories to improve their weapons and develop techniques to overcome U.S. and allied defensive systems,” Dana Stroul,
Ex-president ‘could not get his head around the idea that Ukraine was an independent state’, former adviser Fiona Hill tells author As president, Donald Trump “made it very clear” that he thought Ukraine “must be part of Russia”, his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia and China.“Trump made it very clear that he thought, you know, that Ukraine, and certainly Crimea, must be part of Russia,” Hill, senior director for European and...
The Philippine president says the insistence of the Chinese government convinces him his predecessor made an agreement.
Gen Oleksandr Syrskyi said Russia is making tactical gains and benefitting from warmer weather.
Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) blamed the United Kingdom for facilitating the "vast majority" of Ukraine's attacks on Crimea.In a video statement distributed by the FSB on Thursday, a Russian intelligence officer said that the agency "has regularly received information about the participation of Western intelligence services, primarily British, in the training of Ukrainian special forces.""We have established the supervisory role of British special forces in the vast majority of...
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Ukraine peace talks due to be held in Switzerland made “no sense” unless Russian took part. “We said many times that the process of (peace) talks without Russia makes no sense,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's President Vladimir Putin on Thursday mocked a scheduled round of Ukraine peace talks in Switzerland, warning that Moscow will not accept any enforced plans that ignore its interests. Switzerland’s government said Wednesday it will host a high-level international conference in June to help chart a path toward peace in Ukraine after more than two years of fighting, and expressed hope that Russia might join in the peace process someday. PUTIN PLANS FOR NEXT 6-YEAR TERM AS...