[ad_1] File photo: US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping (Picture credit: PTI) US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a wide-ranging telephone conversation on Wednesday, discussing issues spanning trade, security, Taiwan, Iran and the war in Ukraine, as Washington and Beijing seek to stabilise ties between the world’s two […]
[ad_1] File photo: Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy (Picture credit: AP) A second round of trilateral talks involving Ukraine, Russia and the United States on a US-drafted plan to end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine will now take place on February 4 and 5 in Abu Dhabi, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, announcing a delay […]
[ad_1] Italian PM Giorgia Meloni said that US President Donald Trump deserved the Nobel Peace Prize if he could deliver on Ukraine.“I hope that one day we can award a Nobel Peace Prize to Donald Trump,” Meloni said after meeting German Chancellor Friedrich Merz.“I trust that if he makes a difference… in achieving a just […]
[ad_1] Russia launched more than 370 drones and 21 missiles at Ukraine overnight, Kyiv said on Saturday, accusing Moscow of deliberately undermining peace talks as negotiators from Russia, Ukraine and the United States met in Abu Dhabi for a second day of discussions to end the nearly four-year-long war.“Peace efforts? Trilateral meeting in the UAE? […]
[ad_1] An oil terminal near the village of Volna in Russia’s Krasnodar Krai was struck late Wednesday by Ukrainian drones, triggering a major fire that killed at least three people and injured several others, according to Russian authorities.Krasnodar region governor Veniamin Kondratyev said four oil product tanks caught fire following the strike. Emergency services said […]
[ad_1] WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said that Ukraine – not Russia – is holding up a potential peace deal, rhetoric that stands in marked contrast to that of European allies, who have consistently argued Moscow has little interest in ending war in Ukraine. “I think he’s ready to make a deal,” Trump said of […]
[ad_1] MOSCOW: Russia said on Thursday that any troops sent to Ukraine by Western govts would be “legitimate combat targets”, after Britain and France announced plans to deploy a multinational force there in the event of a ceasefire.A Russian foreign ministry statement said “militaristic declarations” by a coalition of pro-Ukraine Western govts were becoming increasingly […]
[ad_1] File photo: Ukraine’s military intelligence chief Maj Gen Kyrylo Budanov (Picture credit: AP) KYIV: President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Friday appointed the head of Ukraine’s military intelligence as his new chief of staff, a move that comes as the US leads a diplomatic push to end Russia’s nearly 4-year-old invasion.In announcing the appointment of Gen. […]
[ad_1] The CIA has determined that Ukraine did not target President Putin of Russia or one of his residences in an attack this week, according to US officials, rebutting an assertion Putin made in a phone call to President Trump on Monday. CIA director John Ratcliffe briefed Trump on the finding, a person familiar with […]
[ad_1] new video loaded: How We Tracked Abuses in the Russian Army President Vladimir Putin has claimed that the Russian society can tolerate the high human cost of the war in Ukraine. But we’ve analyzed more than 6,000 official complaints by soldiers and their loved ones that paint a very different picture. Our international correspondent […]
