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Monday that he has always had a "great" relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin, but that he is "not so interested" in talking to Putin. He said a negotiated solution to the war in Ukraine will "still happen, but it's very late down the process." He repeated that he is "disappointed" with Putin and said that every time he thought the war might end, Putin "kills people." Trump claimed that Putin talks about a trade deal with the US "all the time" and that Russia could be "so rich right now" if it was not spending "all its money on...

For the first time in its history, Russia is fighting alone against the entire West, so we cannot afford weakness. This was stated by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov․ "We have a lot to do. The most important of them is to defeat the enemy. For the first time in its history, Russia is fighting alone against the entire West. In the First and Second World Wars, we had allies. Now we have no allies on the battlefield. Therefore, we must rely on ourselves," Lavrov said.

A pro-Ukraine hacker group claims to have carried out a major cyberattack on Russia’s biggest airline, Aeroflot. Silent Crow has claimed responsibility for the attack on Aeroflot’s IT infrastructure, which caused the airline to cancel dozens of flights on Monday. -snip- Aeroflot, Russia’s national carrier, said it had cancelled more than 40 flights following the IT “failure”, without saying how long it would take to be resolved. This included journeys to airports across Russia, plus the capital of Belarus, Minsk, and the capital of Armenia, Yerevan, the Reuters news agency reported. Aeroflot has not responded to the hacking claims and...

President Donald Trump on Monday reduced to less than two weeks his deadline for Russian President Vladimir Putin to either reach a peace deal with Ukraine or face massive "secondary tariffs" on Moscow's trade partners. Trump previously gave Putin a 50-day deadline, which was set to expire in early September. But he signaled Monday that things were taking too long, saying "I'm going to make a new deadline of about ...10 or 12 days from today." "I'm disappointed in President Putin," Trump said in Scotland alongside British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. "Russia and Ukraine — I would have said five...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Thursday that his delegation will stress the importance of China pausing its purchases of Russian and Iranian oil in a meeting with Chinese officials next week in Sweden. Bessent said in a Fox Business interview that he believes the United States can move on to such issues concerning China, given that trade is now "in a good place." He made the remarks as senior U.S. and Chinese officials are set to meet Monday and Tuesday in Stockholm for a round of trade talks. "I think that the Russian war machine would grind to a...

Ukrainian drones targeted St. Petersburg on Sunday, Russian authorities said, forcing the airport to close for five hours as Vladimir Putin marked Russia's Navy Day in the city, despite the earlier cancellation of its naval parade due to security concerns. St. Petersburg usually holds a large-scale, televised navy parade on Navy Day, which features a flotilla of warships and military vessels sailing down the Neva River and is attended by Putin. Last year, Russia suspected a Ukrainian plan to attack the city's parade, according to state television. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed on Sunday that this year's parade had been...

US President Donald Trump is still interested in resolving the conflict in Ukraine and wants to see concrete actions to end it, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in an interview with the Fox News channel, APA reports. “This is not his war, but he wants it to end“, the head of the foreign policy department said. According to Rubio, Trump is frustrated that “his good interaction and phone calls with Vladimir Putin are not leading to anything“. “It is time to take action and the president has made it very clear. "He's losing patience," the secretary of state...

Russia's navy has been forced to cancel its annual flagship event in St Petersburg, in a humiliating blow for Vladimir Putin. Navy Day is a major national holiday and is held on the last Sunday of July, celebrated by the public and military alike. The event is used by the Kremlin to show off its latests ships and technology, as it attempts to project its naval power to the watching world. As the maritime capital of Russia, St Petersburg holds a Main Naval Parade along the River Neva, which is normally attended by the Russian president. Usually ships from the...

The Russian navy plays a crucial role in Moscow's conflict, but it has suffered significant losses since the war began in February 2022, with approximately half of the Black Sea Fleet damaged or destroyed by Ukrainian maritime drones and long-range anti-ship missiles. Russian President Vladimir Putin's prized Black Sea Fleet was nowhere to be seen to thwart heavy bombing by Ukrainian drones Wednesday night amid Moscow's largest naval games this year, which comes as a warning to the West. Putin ordered the 'July Storm' drills, which involve more than 150 combat ships, 120 aircraft, and 15,000-plus military personnel. Footage shows...

A Soviet-era plane that crashed in Russia’s Far East was nearly 50 years old and had recently had its lifespan extended by another decade, highlighting the country’s continued use of ageing passenger jets. The smoldering wreckage of the Angara Airlines An-24 airplane was found on Thursday in the remote Amur region, which borders China. Estimates of the number of people on board vary, but around 49 people, including crew members, are believed to have died. Officials, who have begun a criminal investigation into the circumstances of the disaster, said there were no survivors. The incident has laid bare Russia’s dependency...