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Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is warning that President Trump’s efforts to end the war between Russia and Ukraine by “coddling” Russian President Vladimir Putin and limiting assistance to Kyiv is “certain to fail.” McConnell, who had been largely quiet on the issue of the war after Ukraine lost full access to the satellite-based Starshield network,...

Kremlin foreign policy aide Yuri Ushakov told state-affiliated media on Sunday that preparations are underway for a trilateral summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin, President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping.

Ukraine will not discuss limits to its armed forces or enforced neutrality at November meeting, president says. What we know on day 1,706 A trilateral meeting between Kyiv, Washington and Moscow will take place in November aiming to restart stalled Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has said . “We are ready to talk. If it’s a territorial issue, it must be addressed at a leadership level. Other issues fall within the remit of the technical groups. All this can therefore be discussed in November,” the Ukrainian president said on Sunday in an interview. Zelenskyy also renewed his push ⁠for a meeting between him and Vladimir Putin, believing that Putin is the only person ​in Russia who can make major decisions to end ​the war. Zelenskyy says that at the trilateral talks, Ukraine will not discuss limits to its armed forces, or enforced postwar neutrality . Kyiv has long sought entry into Nato despite the reticence of some members. Meanwhile, US warnings about imminent ⁠Russian ballistic missile strikes, critical to Ukraine’s air defences, have been fully restored , according to Zelenskyy. He told Ukraine’s ⁠TSN television channel that SpaceX’s ​Starshield satellite internet had been working at speeds of up to 420km/h since early on Saturday, after a meeting with the US special envoy Steve Witkoff in Oslo. Starshield was throttled earlier in October amid diplomatic pressure on Kyiv from Washington. The US has been trying to pressure Ukraine to suspend strikes on Russian oil refineries , which it says push energy prices higher. However, Zelenskyy has repeatedly said Kyiv will only stop the strikes if Moscow stops hitting Ukraine’s power infrastructure, or if the US allows Ukraine to use of Starshield ‌over Russia to detect launch places of its ballistic missiles, or if it supplies Ukraine with Patriot missiles. Zelenskyy on Sunday said Russia had launched nearly 2,300 drones targeting Ukrainian cities over the past week , renewing his call on western allies to speed up deliveries of interceptors. “This week alone, Russia has launched about 1,600 guided bombs, 48 missiles of various types, including ballistic missiles, and almost 2,300 strike drones at Ukraine,” he wrote in an online post. Russia’s defence ⁠ministry said on ⁠Sunday ​its drones had struck a ⁠cargo vessel bound for the Black Sea port of ⁠Chornomorsk in an overnight ​attack ‌and another cargo ‌vessel en route to the ‌port of Odesa during the day. The ministry said the vessels were being used to supply the Ukrainian army. Russian ‌forces also hit a logistics centre, a ​distribution centre and a logistics terminal in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv overnight. Reuters could not confirm the reports. A Ukrainian drone attack overnight on the Russian border city ⁠of Belgorod killed ⁠three people ​and injured 13, local authorities said on Sunday , while ⁠a separate drone strike later in the day killed another person. The overnight attack on Belgorod ​damaged 30 apartment buildings, regional governor ⁠Alexander Shuvayev said. The presidential election in Bulgaria on Sunday ended inconclusively, with the next head of state to be picked in a runoff. In a surprisingly strong performance, the candidate of the pro-western reformist opposition, Andrey Gyurov, will face the incumbent leftist president, Iliana Yotova. Iotova opposes military aid to Ukraine and favours dialogue with Russia, while Gyurov has often expressed firm support for Kyiv . The vote was held amid security concerns after a series of drone attacks on ships in the Black Sea . Continue reading...

Rep. Ashley Hinson (R-Iowa) on Sunday called Russian President Vladimir Putin a "murderer" and urged that the U.S. not make any deals with Russia. ABC News's "This Week" host Jonathan Karl asked Hinson, a Senate candidate and a staunch supporter of Ukraine, what she made of U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff's remark to Putin last...

If the U.S. pulls back from NATO, that could dramatically increase the chances Vladimir Putin launches atomic attacks to reconquer territories once part of Soviet Russia.

Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov, an adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin and former ambassador to the U.S., said on Sunday that upcoming talks between the U.S., Ukraine and Russia should include more of Europe.

The first Russian diesel tanker headed to New York carries 40,000 tons, but a retired general says that only covers a couple hours of U.S. demand.

President Donald Trump blames Ukraine for continuing its defensive war against Russia. He does so even as Ukraine has agreed to ceasefires proposed by Trump but rejected or broken systematically by Russia. Trump pretends that Ukrainian attacks on Russia’s energy network are intended to increase American gas prices rather than, as they are, to drain […]

Kim Jong-un has opened the borders to both his key allies in Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin, but for different reasons For more than a decade, local Chinese residents pilloried it as nothing more than an empty bridge that led to a North Korean vegetable patch on the other side. Fast forward 12 years and dozens of trucks are now traversing the bridge linking China to North Korea, boosting trade for the reclusive regime. But it has also triggered concern that it could intensify a struggle for influence over the North between Beijing and the region’s other major power, Russia. Continue reading...

‘Further shipments will continue at a steady pace from here on’

Former prisoner Ihor Shishko blasted US envoy Steve Witkoff's flattery of Putin as a humanitarian as "shameful and despicable."

The local unit of German grocer Metro said it committed 1 billion rubles ($12.4 million) to Russia’s war effort a month after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered it be put into temporary administration.

A first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the United States under a new import agreement has set sail, the Kremlin said Friday, two weeks after President Donald Trump said he struck a deal with President Vladimir Putin despite Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.

A tanker loaded with diesel fuel set sail Friday from Russia for the United States, the first shipment since President Donald Trump agreed a deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin to release more fuel into the global market.

The Kremlin said Friday that the first tanker carrying Russian diesel to the U.S. under the new import agreement has set sail, just two weeks after President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin finalized the deal.

Both Putin and Zelenskyy said Thursday they were open for peace negotiations, even as they continued strikes overnight.

CIA Director John Ratcliffe leads an agency that’s at war with Russia, even as Trump makes nice with Putin.

Economic incentives don’t persuade the Russian leader. Here’s what could.

A tanker carrying 40,000 metric tons of Russian diesel is heading towards New York, ship-tracking data showed on Friday, following an agreement reached ‌this month between Moscow and President Donald Trump.

Trump waived most new Russia sanctions from the Graham Act, drawing sharp Republican criticism over whether Vladimir Putin believes the threats.

The Wall Street Journal reporter spent 491 days in Russian prison. The Free Press talks to him about hostage diplomacy, the FSB sting that caught him, and what Putin still gets wrong about him. “Well, there’s nothing much I can do. I’m here, I can’t get out of here, and honestly, it’s interesting. I get to see the system from the inside. I’m a reporter, after all—a voyeur—and this is the ultimate voyeurism.” That’s what Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich told himself at the end of his first 24 hours in Moscow’s Lefortovo prison, where he landed shortly after the FSB, Russia’s primary domestic security and intelligence agency, arrested him on trumped-up espionage charges in March 2023. Then he turned on the TV in his cell and found a state talk show discussing his case. “As cynical as it sounds,” one host said, “we’ve replenished our [prisoner] exchange fund.” The exchange itself came 491 days later, in August 2024, in the form of the largest prisoner swap between Russia and the West since the Cold War. Gershkovich’s account of those days, and of the country that took him as a bargaining chip four decades after his parents left it, is the subject of his new memoir, This Cursed Beautiful Land. I spoke to Gershkovich this week, at a time when Moscow appears to be replenishing its exchange fund once again. On October 13, Russia announced it had detained a Japanese correspondent on the same espionage charge it used against Gershkovich. Four days earlier, Montenegro detained and promptly expelled a Kremlin-linked Russian war blogger. The same day, Dmitry Medvedev, the former Russian president who is now deputy chairman of the Security Council, wrote on Telegram that Russia would now likely have to “replenish the exchange fund from European and American morons to get back ours.” Gershkovich and I talked about hostage diplomacy, the sting that led to his arrest, his life in Lefortovo, why he thinks Vladimir Putin genuinely believes he was a spy—and why he’s leaving the Russia beat. Watch highlights from our interview below. And scroll down to read our conversation, which has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Tanya Lukyanova: I want to start by getting your take on the recent news. Last week the FSB detained Yuki Imai, a 34-year-old Japanese correspondent, accusing him of gathering information on Russian servicemen for Japanese intelligence. The parallels to your story are uncanny. Like you, he was flown to Moscow, and he’s being held under the same espionage article, handed down by the same Lefortovo court. What do you make of this situation? Does this look like another swap in the making to you? Evan Gershkovich: So I’ve been in touch with his family since this happened, and I’ve been speaking with the Japanese media. I think there’s a difference in Japanese society versus American society in terms of understanding what this is about. There’s a shock that his colleagues are going through right now in terms of understanding the concept of hostage diplomacy.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MS NOW’s “Deadline,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) said President Donald Trump “is in the thrall of” Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Host Nicolle Wallace said, “In light of Mr. Wycoff describing Vladimir Putin as a quote, humanitarian, this The post Sen. Coons: ‘Trump Is in the Thrall of Putin; He’s Putin’s Puppet’ appeared first on Breitbart .

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that future talks on a settlement of the war in Ukraine should focus on security guarantees for both countries and an overall framework for security throughout Europe.

President Donald Trump is signaling a full-on embrace of Vladimir Putin and Russia – and of big-power relations – as he faces adverse midterm results and a potential lame-duck presidency.

In a push to close deals, Trump has pivoted toward Putin.