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  • Trump Says He Made No Progress With Putin on Ukraine in Call

    07/03/2025 5:34:40 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 34 replies
    Wall Street Journal MSN News ^ | 7/3/2025 | Alexander Ward, Georgi Kantchev
    President Trump spoke by phone Thursday with Russian President Vladimir Putin about the war in Ukraine but made no headway on halting the fighting. “I didn’t make any progress with him today at all,” Trump said of Putin, speaking to reporters as he left Washington to deliver a speech in Iowa. According to a Kremlin briefing on the call, Trump urged Putin to quickly end the war in Ukraine but Putin refused. It was the two leaders’ first conversation since U.S. officials said this week they had paused a series of weapons shipments for Ukraine. Trump indicated the U.S. hadn’t...
  • Trump admits why he's 'not happy' after long call with Putin to discuss Ukraine peace deal

    07/03/2025 4:46:04 PM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 9 replies
    Daily Mail ^ | 7/3/2025 | KATELYN CARALLE, NIKKI SCHWAB
    President Donald Trump said Thursday that no progress was made in ending the war with Ukraine after he conducted another lengthy call with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump spoke to reporters at Joint Base Andrews ahead of a trip to Des Moines, Iowa. -snip- We had a call. It was a pretty long call. We talked about a lot of things including Iran and we also talked about, as you know, the war with Ukraine,' Trump said. 'And I'm not happy about that,' he said. Trump was then asked if he made progress with Putin on a peace deal with...
  • Erdogan says Trump would join Ukraine peace talks in Turkey if Putin attends

    07/03/2025 8:46:43 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 2 replies
    Reuters ^ | 6/26/2025 | Tuvan Gumrukcu
    Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump told him he would attend potential peace talks between the leaders of Ukraine and Russia in Turkey, if Russian President Vladimir Putin also agreed to take part. On his return flight from the NATO summit, where he met Trump for the first time since he returned to office, Erdogan said he told the U.S. president Ankara aims to bring the Russian and Ukrainian leaders together in Turkey for peace talks. "He (Trump) said, 'if Russian President Vladimir Putin comes to Istanbul or Ankara for a solution, then I will also...
  • Trump, Zelensky may discuss US arms delay in call

    07/03/2025 6:45:56 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 24 replies
    Baha Breaking News ^ | 7/3/2025 | Christian Baha
    United States President Donald Trump and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky are expected to speak over the phone tomorrow and discuss Washington's unexpected pause in arms deliveries to Kiev, the Financial Times reported on Thursday. Pentagon's decision to stop supplying some advanced weapons systems to Kiev, including munitions and missiles, prompted Ukraine to summon the acting US envoy, fearing the move would jeopardize the country's defense amid the ongoing conflict with Russia. Furthermore, sources familiar with the matter indicated that Zelensky will press the topic of potential new US arms sales. Trump's last meeting with his Ukrainian colleague came during...
  • Deputy head of Russian Navy killed by Ukraine in Kursk, official says

    07/03/2025 4:50:40 AM PDT · by marcusmaximus · 20 replies
    Reuters ^ | 7/3/2025 | Reuters Moscow and Lidia Kelly
    Major General Mikhail Gudkov, the deputy head of the Russian Navy who also led a brigade fighting against Ukraine, has been killed in Russia's Kursk region, Oleg Kozhemyako, governor of a far eastern Russian region, said on Thursday. Unofficial Russian and Ukrainian military Telegram channels had earlier reported that Gudkov had been killed along with 10 other servicemen in a Ukrainian attack on a command post in Korenevo in the Kursk region, which borders Ukraine. He is one of the most senior Russian military officers to have been killed by Ukraine since Moscow launched its full-scale war against Ukraine in...