In a lengthy phone call on Wednesday, President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia agreed that there should be a brief cease-fire in Ukraine in the coming days, according to both Mr. Trump and a top adviser to Mr. Putin. The cease-fire would coincide with the May 9 Russian holiday marking the end…
President Vladimir V. Putin and his security services kept a lid on public dissent even as he invaded a neighboring country, sent hundreds of thousands of soldiers to their deaths and drastically raised taxes to pay for it all. Then, they moved to throttle popular apps and intermittently cut off the internet. Suddenly, many Russians…
Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, arrived in Russia on Monday for talks with President Vladimir V. Putin on Iran’s war with the United States, as negotiations between Tehran and Washington to end the conflict appear to have stalled. But his visit underscored the tricky position Russia finds itself in as it tries to balance its…
Xi, it seems, is less concerned with personal immortality than Putin. Watching that hot-mic clip, it’s easy to imagine that he was really just indulging the eccentric preoccupations of his Russian counterpart, if for no other reason than it was something to talk about while they walked to the podium. But in 2018, Xi rescinded…
Shorouk Express On The Ground newsletter: Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly dispatch from our international correspondents Get a weekly international news dispatch After months on the sidelines of US-led peace talks, Europe is trying to rise to the challenge of guaranteeing Ukraine’s post-war future in the event of a…
Shorouk Express According to open-source maps of the conflict, Russian forces now control about 80 percent of the Donbas region, made up of Donetsk and Luhansk. Russia this week claimed it had — after more than a year of fighting — captured the key city of Pokrovsk, which Ukraine has rejected. Ceding Donbas was one…
Shorouk Express Putin accused of ‘wasting the world’s time’ after Trump’s peace plan stalls Senior Ukrainian and European officials have accused Russia of not pursuing “any kind of peace” and wasting the world’s time. Foreign secretary Yvette Cooper said the Russian president Vladimir Putin “should end the bluster and the bloodshed and be ready to…
Shorouk Express Subsequent talks attended by European, Ukrainian and American negotiators yielded an updated 19-point plan. In a post on social platform X, Dmitriev said it was an “important day for peace.” Witkoff traveled to Moscow after taking part in U.S.-Ukraine talks in Florida. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov told journalists on Tuesday that Kushner would…
Shorouk Express Putin said Russia is ready to “show flexibility” regarding the settlement proposal, Ukrainian media outlet Ukrainska Pravda reported. Putin said the U.S. proposal is an “upgraded” version of one put forward at the Alaska summit between the Russian and American leaders in August. “But this text has not been discussed with us in…
Shorouk Express This is the moment an 11-year-old girl bravely confronts Vladimir Putin about her uncle injured in the war with Ukraine. The child approached Putin at Russia’s Unity Day service on Tuesday (4 November), telling him how her uncle suffered an injury to the arm that went untreated in hospital before being sent back…
