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

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

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 ...

According to the Trump administration, the broad outlines of Vladimir Putin’s proposal to end the war in Ukraine are coming ...

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 ...

The disheartening and frustrating fact is that Russia is in a much stronger negotiating position now than they were earlier ...

President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who offered to host future peace talks in ...

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan welcomed the Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Istanbul. He emphasized the need for a ceasefire and proposed hosting a leaders' summit. Erdogan suggested forming working ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is set to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Alaska on Friday, the latest development in ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has maintained Moscow's uncompromising demands in Ukraine, raising fears he could use a ...