President Donald Trump met with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte Wednesday — days after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited the White House and after calling off a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin. “We canceled the meeting with President Putin,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office with Rutte Wednesday. “It …
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Wednesday he supported President Donald Trump’s proposal to freeze the current front lines of the war while both sides work toward a longer-term peace agreement. Trump “proposed, ‘Stay where we stay and begin conversation,’” Zelenskyy told reporters during a brief visit to Oslo, Norway. “I …
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President Donald Trump on Saturday said he won’t waste time meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin again unless a deal on the war in Ukraine is likely. “I’m going to have to know that we’re going to make a deal,” Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One after taking off from …
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After months of wavering between confrontation and conciliation toward Moscow, President Donald Trump has imposed new sanctions on Russia’s two largest oil companies and canceled a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin — signaling a renewed attempt to pressure the Kremlin without committing to deeper U.S. involvement in Ukraine’s …
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Two Spanish fighter jets were scrambled while on NATO air policing missions after Russian aircraft violated Lithuanian airspace. The Lithuanian armed forces said that at approximately 6:00 p.m. local time on Thursday, two Russian aircraft — an SU-30 and an IL-78 — flew about 765 yards into Lithuanian airspace, The …
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