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Following last week’s Alaska summit, the Trump administration boasted that Russian President Vladimir Putin had made the ...

Russia’s foreign minister said an agenda for a potential summit between the two leaders was ‘not ready at all’ ...

Putin talks, but hopes for peace remain dim. Russia’s demands are unchanged, US commitment is cautious, and Europe is left to ...

By categorically rejecting U.S.-backed Western security guarantees for Ukraine, the Kremlin is exposing its true ...

Geneva, Istanbul and Budapest have been put forward as potential locations - but bilateral talks still remain a long way off.

The US president, Donald Trump, claims to have “solved six wars in six months”. To work out if there was any substance to his ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to make “some compromise” on his demand that a ceasefire takes place before any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin – as long as some ...

Vladimir Putin is dusting off his stalling and delaying tactics playbook as peace talks with Ukraine falter and Russia continues to build up troops on the frontline and pound Ukrainian targets.

ISTANBUL, August 20. /TASS/. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a telephone conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin earlier in the day that Ankara supports approaches ...

Diplomacy has often been the last bridge standing during wars. Even when battles continue, leaders sometimes turn to talks to ...

Leonid Slutsky recalled that similar provocations occurred ahead of the second round of talks in Istanbul, when Ukrainian forces launched large-scale attacks on Russia's railway infrastructure to unde ...