Russia-US

No Ukraine ceasefire reached in Trump's Alaska summit with Putin

Trump said that he and Putin did not reach an agreement on "probably the most significant" aspect of their meeting, but there was a very good chance of getting there.

US President Trump meets with Russian President Putin in Alaska, August 15, 2025
THEN-RUSSIAN prime minister Dmitry Medvedev crosses paths with US President Donald Trump at an Association of Southeast Asian Nations dinner in Manila in 2017.

Russia's Dead Hand system return shows that global stability has become fragile - opinion

 RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS with front pages dedicated to the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in Moscow, last week.

Trump to meet with Russia's Putin in coming days, Kremlin aide says

 U.S. President Donald Trump and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meet in the Oval Office at the White House on February 13, 2025 in Washington, DC.

India-US spat over trade and oil threatens wider fallout - analysis


President Trump to meet with Vladimir Putin next week – NYT

Witkoff held around three hours of talks with Putin in the Kremlin, two days before the expiry of a deadline set by Trump for Russia to agree to peace in Ukraine.

Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomes U.S. President Donald Trump's envoy Steve Witkoff during a meeting in Moscow, Russia August 6, 2025.

Russia's Putin meets US envoy Witkoff amid tensions between US, Russia, Interfax says

Trump, who warned that he would impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine before Friday, had said earlier that Witkoff might be traveling to Moscow this week.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for Jeanine Pirro as interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 28, 2025.

Netanyahu working to resolve tensions, mediate between US, Russia - report

Tensions have risen between Russia and the US in recent days due to Trump's decision to send nuclear submarines to the area over the weekend.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a call with US President Joe Biden following Iran's attack on Israel. April 14, 2024.

US halts some missile shipments to Ukraine over low stockpiles, sources say

The Pentagon said it was providing President Donald Trump with options to continue military aid to Ukraine in line with the goal of ending Russia's war there.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2025.

Trump remains frustrated at being unable to end Gaza, Ukraine-Russia wars - WSJ

Trump admitted to a group of private donors at his Florida club last week that finding a solution for the Israel-Hamas conflict had been a challenge as  “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.”

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump in the Oval Office last Friday: Since Trump’s election as president last November for a second term, the US has no longer been committed to the previous world order in which it had played such a major role in creating and running, the writer maintains.

Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility

INSS gives recipe for calibrated confrontation with Moscow to reduce support for Iran, Houthis, Hamas without leading to conflagration

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Trump envoy in Russia for talks with Putin about Ukraine

US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a Ukraine peace deal and a potential Trump-Putin summit.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018

Kremlin says it is hard to imagine talks with US on new nuclear arms reduction treaty

The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.

 THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Cautious of Trump's Russian pivot, Israel debates sharing intel, NBC reports

Some officials in other allied countries played down the idea that Trump's policies on Russia would disrupt intelligence cooperation that dates back decades.

 RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS with front pages dedicated to the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in Moscow, last week.

US deports Russian man wanted for armed robbery, Moscow says

Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in 2014.

 Russian and US state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019

Israeli national handed two year sentence in US for shipping aviation parts to Russia

Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, was sentenced for using his international freight forwarding company to violate US export control laws.

 Russia selling oil for gold in September