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A year after Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died behind bars, his supporters risked reprisals by visiting his grave in Moscow.

President Zelenskyy said any mineral exploitation by the US would need to be tied to security guarantees for Ukraine that would deter future Russian aggression.

The United States National Security Council (NSC) has devised a series of strategies for Ukrainian forces to use in fighting against the Russian troops to prolong the war, newly leaked documents revealed.

The US and Russian top envoys will reportedly meet in Saudi Arabia to discuss Ukraine peace talks.

As New Delhi seeks to diversify its LNG supply, both Moscow and Washington are courting the country to secure major deals countries’ Read Full Article at RT.com

Remarks by Vice President JD Vance and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are fueling concerns that the U.S. will move away from Europe and align with Moscow.

Talks involving Secretary of State Marco Rubio and two other senior Trump officials would be the first between American and Russian delegations since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

Foreign Minister Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rubio hold phone call to work on restoring ‘mutually respectful interstate dialogue’.

Europe faces a desperate race to agree on plans for Ukraine’s security following J.D. Vance’s blistering attack on the bloc’s values.

Ukraine's president calls for the creation of an "army of Europe" amid fears the United States and Russia will decide on his nation’s future at a meeting between the U.S. and Russian leaders in Saudi Arabia. The post Ukraine Calls For Europe Army Ahead Of Putin-Trump Talks In Saudi Arabia appeared first on Worthy Christian News.

Ukrainian leader Vladimir Zelensky has confirmed that Kiev was not invited to discussions between Washington and Moscow in Saudi Arabia Read Full Article at RT.com

The United States seeks to “break” Russia's alliances with Iran and China, says Washington’s Special Envoy for Ukraine and Russia, Keith Kellogg.

Senior US officials will reportedly meet with a Russian delegation in Saudi Arabia next week to set the stage for an upcoming summit Read Full Article at RT.com

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has applauded US Vice President J.D. Vance’s speech at the Munich Conference Read Full Article at RT.com

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has held a conversation with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia has previously warned that foreign forces deployed to the country without Moscow’s consent would be “legitimate targets” Read Full Article at RT.com

The Kremlin acknowledged The Wall Street Journal distorted US Vice President J.D. Vance’s remarks about sending troops to Ukraine Read Full Article at RT.com

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he will not take NATO membership for Ukraine off the table. However, “right now the most influential member of NATO seems to be Putin because he seems able to block NATO decisions,” he said.

He said an address by the US vice-president the previous day made clear the changing relationship between Europe and the United States.

The foreign and defence secretaries say not enough has been done in the past to confront Russian aggression.

Alexander Trufanov has been freed following diplomatic efforts by Moscow Read Full Article at RT.com

Alarming media reports about the harm of microplastics to the human body and the environment are greatly exaggerated Read Full Article at RT.com

Russian authorities have zealously prosecuted people with links to Aleksei A. Navalny’s organization inside Russia in the year since he died.

After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better relations, raising hopes of loosening his repression and his embrace of Moscow.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says his country has little chance of surviving the conflict with Russia without continued American backing.

A cameraman with Channel One Russia was wounded in a Ukrainian drone strike while filming on the frontline in Kursk Region Read Full Article at RT.com

Trump says his first face-to-face meeting with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during the former’s second tenure, would take place in Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia welcomes idea of Putin-Trump summit, following a 90-minute phone talk between the US and Russian leaders on Wednesday Read Full Article at RT.com

Diplomats at the Munich Security Conference were uttering “appeasement,” with all its historical resonance, to describe the Trump administration’s approach to negotiations to end the war in Ukraine.

Donald Trump's phone call with Putin has shocked both Ukraine's president Zelensky and allies alike, but is it enough to start peace talks?

J.D. Vance has rejected WSJ claims that he threatened Russia with sending troops to Ukraine, calling the report “absurd” Read Full Article at RT.com

Yulia Navalnaya’s remarks at the Munich Security Conference come two days before the first anniversary of her husband’s prison camp death.

The Ukrainian president met J.D. Vance, who assured him the Trump administration is seeking a ‘lasting’ peace between Kyiv and Moscow.

The Ukrainian leader says he is ready to negotiate with President Vladimir Putin once Ukraine and its Western backers have a “common plan” Read Full Article at RT.com

The current Group of Eight format does not represent the drivers of global economic growth, according to spokesman Dmitry Peskov Read Full Article at RT.com

The US vice president has said neither China nor Russia are the most serious challenge to the continent, but its retreat from core values Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia’s re-inclusion in Western energy and security systems will deliver “massive” benefits, Hungarian PM Viktor Orban has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Russia seeks clarification of Vice President J.D. Vance’s suggestion to send American troops to Ukraine if Moscow refuses a peace deal Read Full Article at RT.com

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine called the damage “significant” but said there were no signs of radiation leaks. A Kremlin spokesman denied that Russia had carried out the strike.

Ukraine’s president issued a stark warning, saying that Russia may be preparing an act of aggression against NATO members as early as next year. Speaking at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the attack might come from Belarus.

Xi Jinping will be in the Russian capital for war anniversary but no confirmation from US president.

Ukraine’s Zelensky has warned that conflict resolution steps taken without Kiev wouldn’t be accepted Read Full Article at RT.com

Kiev could take drastic law-breaking measures to undermine US-Russian diplomacy, Rodion Miroshnik has warned Read Full Article at RT.com

Bitterness has greeted suggestions that occupied territory will have to be ceded to Russia: “It’s like ripping off a man’s arm or leg and then saying, ‘Let it be as it is.’”

A protective shield over the destroyed fourth reactor of the Chernobyl nuclear plant has been struck overnight by a Russian attack drone carrying a high-explosive warhead, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

Other leaders such as President Tokayev of Kazakhstan have welcomed political dialogue between Washington and Moscow.

The alleged drone attack on the facility could have been a Ukrainian provocation, according to Dmitry Peskov Read Full Article at RT.com

First Deputy Energy Minister Pavel Sorokin told RT that Russian LNG will reach new markets despite sanctions Read Full Article at RT.com

Zelensky’s comments came just hours before he was to meet with US Vice-President J.D. Vance in Germany.

Media have published a video filmed in Moscow showing the US-Russian exchange of Marc Fogel for Aleksandr Vinnik Read Full Article at RT.com

There has been no increase in radiation levels at the plant this morning, Ukraine's president says.

US Vice President J.D. Vance has accused EU political parties of ignoring public sentiment and resorting to censorship while blaming Russia Read Full Article at RT.com

Trump and Putin want to make a deal. But Ukrainians question how life after a ceasefire will work.

Trump’s actions on Ukraine may undermine Nato, as the US signals it may be stepping back from guaranteeing European security.

The announcement by President Donald Trump that the United States would “immediately” begin negotiations with Russia to end the war in Ukraine has plunged European politics into a deep crisis.

This report, submitted to the WSWS by Ukrainian underground journalists, documents the growing disintegration of the army amid preparations for US-Russian talks about a settlement of the conflict.

Trump’s bold-faced attempt to seize control of Ukraine’s mineral wealth is an open admission of the geostrategic and economic interests of US imperialism behind a war that has already claimed the lives of hundreds of thousands.

Vice President JD Vance told The Wall Street Journal that it was too early to talk about specific territorial or security arrangements.

But a Ukrainian official says talks with Russia "are not expected" and Moscow does not comment.

US President Donald Trump spoke to reporters on Thursday, sharing more details and thoughts about a phone call with his Russian counterpart Read Full Article at RT.com

The papers are still mostly leading with Trump and Putin's pledge to begin negotiations to end the Ukraine war.

Russian crypto businessman and computer programmer Aleksandr Vinnik has returned to Moscow as part of a prisoner exchange deal with the US Read Full Article at RT.com

As Trump grants Putin his main wish to end war in Ukraine, Kyiv and Europe voice anger at not being included in proposed talks.

President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine and European defense ministers had expressed concern that they might not be present for talks between President Trump and Russia’s leader to end the war.

The US president said he would start with conversations with leaders Putin and Xi, potentially moving to a trilateral meeting.

Ukraine's president says he will not be shut out of peace negotiations after Trump says he agreed to start talks with Putin.

President Trump has announced that “high-level” US representatives will meet their Russian counterparts at the Munich Security Conference Read Full Article at RT.com

It is easy to call for human rights from EU offices in Brussels and Luxembourg, our old, established democracies. In Bangladesh, Yunus is trying to build a new one. We must help him, Muddassar Ahmed writes.

Kyiv residents react to US President Donald Trump's call to Russian President Vladimir Putin asking to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, without guaranteeing Ukraine's involvement in the talks.

The world has never been so close to nuclear catastrophe as under the Biden administration, the former Russian president has said Read Full Article at RT.com

NATO has never promised Ukraine to accept it once Kiev reaches a peace deal with Moscow, the bloc’s head Mark Rutte says Read Full Article at RT.com

The US president has said he would “love”’ to have Moscow back in the group Read Full Article at RT.com

Reverse supplies have been flowing to Ukraine despite Zelensky’s recent transit cut to the bloc, according to Slovakia Read Full Article at RT.com

The US cutting loose both Kiev and Brussels is the way to end the war and that’s a good thing Read Full Article at RT.com

The US and Russian leaders spoke for nearly 90 minutes, agreeing to meet soon on neutral territory, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has said Read Full Article at RT.com

Amid increasing concerns over the EU's defence capabilities, Lithuania's defence minister has emphasised the bloc's under-preparedness.

Pentagon head Pete Hegseth defended Trump’s Ukraine negotiations with Putin and urged allies to ‘make Nato great again’.

Zelensky said it was ‘unpleasant’ that Trump called Putin before talking to him, but tried to play down the significance of the move.

Many world leaders, including Ukraine's President Zelensky, are finding the world is more uncertain under new US leadership.

The mutual-defense alliance has been central to Ukraine’s war against Russia, but the future is uncertain with President Trump back in office.

The incident put Moldovan lives at risk, the eastern European country's President Maia Sandu said.

Since Donald Trump announced the beginning of the peace negotiations over Russia's war against Ukraine, the US authorities have made several statements on what Ukraine should and should not expect. Yet, there are no indications of any conditions or concessions Moscow will have to settle for.

Russian politicians, journalists, and experts reacted to the news about the first contact between the presidents of Russia and the US Read Full Article at RT.com

The US leader’s phone call with Vladimir Putin is “recognition” that Washington is interested in negotiated peace, Pete Hegseth has said Read Full Article at RT.com

The US and Russia are “starting to make headway” on the Ukraine issue with the resumption of direct dialogue, Earl Rasmussen has told RT Read Full Article at RT.com

Kiev has lost over 60,000 troops since the start of its incursion into the Russian territory in August 2024, Moscow claims Read Full Article at RT.com

Annalena Baerbock has complained that US President Donald Trump sidelined the EU in his recent phone talks with Moscow and Kiev Read Full Article at RT.com

After a frenetic 24 hours of US declarations, there is a tangible sense that Europe's leaders have been surprised.

In November, Donald Trump nominated retired General Keith Kellogg as a special Ukrainian peace envoy to lead negotiations on Russia's full-scale war. But after the first phone calls with Kyiv and Moscow, he said the talks would be led by a different person — his Middle East envoy, Steve Witkoff.

The two presidents have opened the door to dialogue, and the ‘Investors in War’ are nervous Read Full Article at RT.com

From the alliance between Tokyo and Washington to a deserted ‘iPhone City’, here’s a round-up from today’s China and economy coverage.

The Trump-Putin call is widely seen as a blow to Ukraine and the EU, and a breakthrough for Russia, Western outlets say Read Full Article at RT.com

The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) has thwarted a bombing attack in Pskov, according to a statement Read Full Article at RT.com

US-Russian relations will now return to their ‘factory settings’, but the key here is the end of Western overreach Read Full Article at RT.com

Trump’s recent moves, including a conversation with Putin and a demand for Ukrainian mineral rights, are worrisome signs for Zelensky.

Plus, the hidden cost of a Valentine’s bouquet.

In the first major European vote since President Trump’s re-election, influence campaigns are targeting Germany from two sides.

The kingdom has increasingly emerged as a mediator in the Russia-Ukraine war, leveraging ties with both sides as well as with President Trump.

The new reality is that the West can be stopped and made to negotiate on its “adversary’s” terms Read Full Article at RT.com

The Trump-Putin phone call is incredibly important and is a sign that Washington wants peace in Ukraine, the Kremlin has said Read Full Article at RT.com