Putin accuses Ukraine of deadly attack on student dorm, orders military to prepare
- 23-May-2026
STAROBILSK, Russian-controlled Ukraine: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday ordered his military to prepare options to retaliate against Ukraine for what he described as a drone attack on a student dorm that killed six people and wounded dozens, with 15 still unaccounted for. Putin said the attack had struck the dorm in Starobilsk in Luhansk, […]
Putin says he thinks the Ukraine conflict is coming to an end
- 10-May-2026
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday that he thought the Ukraine conflict was coming to an end. Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine triggered the most serious crisis in relations between Russia and the West since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, when many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. […]
Putin calls Khamenei killing ‘cynical violation’ of ‘morality and international law’
- 01-Mar-2026
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday slammed the United States and Israel’s killing of Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in as a “cynical violation” of morality and law. Tehran has stood by as one of Russia’s closest allies throughout Moscow’s Ukraine offensive and the Kremlin had earlier called for restraint in the run-up […]
Putin agrees next steps with US envoys but Kremlin says territory is key
- 23-Jan-2026
MOSCOW: Russia said it will hold security talks with the U.S. and Ukraine in Abu Dhabi on Friday, but warned after a late-night meeting between President Vladimir Putin and three U.S. envoys that a durable peace would not be possible unless territorial issues were resolved. Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told reporters the talks, which began […]
Kremlin says Putin to meet US envoy Witkoff Tuesday afternoon
- 01-Dec-2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Ukraine with US envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon, the Kremlin said. The pair will meet after American and Ukrainian officials held negotiations on a US plan that Washington wants to be a basis to end fighting between Moscow and Kyiv. “The meeting with Witkoff […]
Ishaq Dar meets Putin, Russian and Chinese Premiers on SCO sidelines
- 19-Nov-2025
MOSCOW: Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar met Russian President Vladimir Putin, Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin, and Chinese Premier Li Qiang, along with other heads of government from SCO member states, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Wednesday. The meetings took place on the sidelines of the Shanghai Cooperation […]
Russia says successfully tested new nuclear-capable cruise missile
- 26-Oct-2025
MOSCOW: Russia’s President Vladimir Putin announced Sunday a successful final test of a new nuclear-powered cruise missile, the Burevestnik, amid Moscow’s ongoing Ukraine offensive and uncertainty over a new summit with US leader Donald Trump. “The decisive tests are now complete,” Putin said in a video released by the Kremlin during a meeting with military […]
Putin offers Trump one-year extension to nuclear weapons treaty
- 23-Sep-2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the U.S. agreed to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,” but she added that U.S. President […]
Russia will not ‘give up’ aims in Ukraine, Putin tells Trump
- 04-Jul-2025
Russian leader Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump by telephone on Thursday that Moscow will not “give up” on its aims in Ukraine, the Kremlin said. The pair spoke as US-led peace talks on ending the more than three-year-old conflict in Ukraine have stalled and after Washington paused some weapons shipments to Kyiv. The […]
Putin says Russia, Ukraine peace proposals contradictory
- 27-Jun-2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia and Ukraine’s demands for peace were “absolutely contradictory”, after two rounds of peace talks have failed to bring the sides closer to an elusive ceasefire. Russian and Ukrainian negotiators swapped memorandums outlining their visions for how to end the three-year conflict at peace talks in Istanbul this […]