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  • Putin signs law to allow online voting at elections across Russia

    08/23/2025 4:24:24 PM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 21 replies
    March 14 (Reuters) - An online voting system that was criticised by some defeated candidates at parliamentary elections last year will be rolled out for use across Russia after President Vladimir Putin signed electronic voting procedures into law on Monday. A coalition of defeated parliamentary candidates in Moscow claimed they were cheated of victory in a parliamentary election last September by the system and sought to try to overturn the results via lawsuits and public pressure.
  • Russian cruise missiles hit US company in massive Ukraine strike amid Trump’s peace push

    08/21/2025 11:20:55 AM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 58 replies
    In one of the largest overnight strikes since the war began, Russia unleashed some 614 drones, ballistic and cruise missiles across Ukraine, killing one, injuring dozens and destroying an American-owned electronics company less than an hour from two NATO borders, officials confirmed Thursday morning. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenksyy said the strike on the private U.S. company, which involved "several" cruise missiles, was "very telling" following President Donald Trump’s attempts to force Moscow to end its invasion.
  • Russia 'almost immediately' offers concessions in Trump-Putin Alaska talks

    08/20/2025 7:27:39 AM PDT · by SaxxonWoods · 33 replies
    The New Voice of Urkaine ^ | 8/20/2025 | Богуслав Романенко
    Witkoff noted that these concessions were partly achieved because the U.S. side tested Russia’s willingness to adopt a more flexible stance. Trump and his team focused on securing a long-term peace agreement rather than a temporary ceasefire during the Anchorage meeting, he added. “We stayed there for quite some time because we actually made progress on how we might get to a peace deal,” Witkoff said. According to him, Trump began to sense that many preconditions for a comprehensive deal were already in place, prompting efforts to negotiate a full peace agreement.
  • Trump doesn’t rule out U.S. troops in Ukraine as a peacekeeping force

    08/18/2025 3:51:58 PM PDT · by USA-FRANCE · 112 replies
    President Trump on Monday did not rule out sending U.S. troops to Ukraine as part of a peacekeeping force if a potential peace deal between Kyiv and Moscow can be reached. “We’ll let you know that, maybe later today,” Mr. Trump said during an Oval Office meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Mr. Trump’s refusal to rule out the idea of U.S. boots on the ground in Ukraine is a potential major shift in his policy towards Ukraine as the war-torn nation considers security guarantees to be essential for any peace agreement. Mr. Trump met with Russian President Vladimir Putin...
  • Putin’s Ukraine Proposal Backed by Trump Centers on Donbas. Here’s Why.

    08/17/2025 10:23:22 AM PDT · by E. Pluribus Unum · 50 replies
    The New York Times ^ | Aug. 17, 2025, 9:56 a.m. ET | Anatoly Kurmanaev, Ksenia Churmanova and Nataliya Vasilyeva
    The traditionally Russian-speaking area is at the heart of what the Russian president calls the “root causes” of the war, and taking it over is near the top of his list of territorial and political demands.The proposal to end the war in Ukraine that emerged from the summit in Alaska between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia centers on persuading Kyiv to give up the Donbas, the industrial region in the east.The traditionally Russian-speaking area has been at the heart of what Mr. Putin calls the “root causes” of the war, and taking it over is near...
  • Russia 'complicating' end to war, says Zelensky as Trump urges Ukraine to agree to Moscow peace deal

    08/16/2025 6:28:58 PM PDT · by MinorityRepublican · 210 replies
    BBC News ^ | August 16, 2025 | Asya Robins & Tabby Wilson
    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said that Russia's refusal to agree to a ceasefire is complicating efforts to end the war. "We see that Russia rebuffs numerous calls for a ceasefire and has not yet determined when it will stop the killing. This complicates the situation," he said in a statement on 'X'. On Monday, the Ukrainian leader travel to Washington DC, where US President Donald Trump has said he will urge Zelensky to agree to a peace deal. Trump has said he wants to bypass a ceasefire in Ukraine to move directly to a permanent peace agreement after his...
  • ALASKA SUMMIT 2025 WITH POTUS AND VLADIMIR PUTIN

    08/15/2025 2:04:44 PM PDT · by backpacker_c · 276 replies
    RealAmerica'sVoice ^ | Aug 15, 2025 | RealAmerica'sVoice
    Watch our live coverage of President Trump's historic meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Anchorage Alaska, with RAV White House correspondent, Brian Glenn.
  • Putin says Russia's hypersonic missile has entered service and will be deployed in Belarus

    08/02/2025 7:09:27 AM PDT · by delta7 · 72 replies
    MSM ^ | 2 Aug 25 | VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV
    MOSCOW (AP) — President Vladimir Putin said Friday that Russia has started production of its newest hypersonic missiles and reaffirmed its plans to deploy them to ally Belarus later this year. Sitting alongside Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko on Valaam Island near St. Petersburg, Putin said the military already has selected deployment sites in Belarus for the Oreshnik intermediate range ballistic missile.… Putin has praised the Oreshnik’s capabilities, saying its multiple warheads that plunge to a target at speeds up to Mach 10 are immune to being intercepted and are so powerful that the use of several of them in one...
  • Zelensky says he needs Nato guarantees before entering peace talks with Putin

    12/01/2024 1:11:54 PM PST · by Mariner · 123 replies
    The Telegraph via Yahoo ^ | December 1st, 2024 | Our Foreign Staff
    Volodymyr Zelensky said that his country needed security guarantees from Nato and more weapons to defend itself before any talks with Russia.Ukraine’s president made the comments after meeting Kaja Kallas, the EU’s new head of diplomacy, and Antonio Costa, freshly appointed president of the European Council, who were visiting Kyiv as a show of support on their first day in office.“An invitation for Ukraine to join Nato is a necessary thing for our survival,” Mr Zelensky said at a press conference with Mr Costa.It comes after Mr Zelenksy appeared to shift his position dramatically on Friday by accepting that Ukraine...