A summit in Paris six years ago was the first and only time the two presidents ever met, flanked by French president Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s then-chancellor Angela Merkel. At the time, Putin and Zelensky were looking to hash out a ceasefire deal for war in Donbas in Ukraine’s east, where Russia-backed forces were fighting Ukrainian troops.

President Donald Trump is willing to “crush” Russia's economy with sanctions if Russian President Vladimir Putin refuses to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

The Drudge Report resurrected a 12-year-old tweet by President Trump asking whether Vladimir Putin 'will become my new best friend' ahead of a 2013 Moscow trip.

Lavrov on Wednesday also praised the new stance from Washington, saying: “United States has an increasingly clear understanding of the root causes of the Ukraine crisis.”

As Karoline Leavitt browbeats reporters for failing to hail Trump as a world-historical peacemaker, an international relations expert explains the deeper reasons his handling of the Russia-Ukraine talks is so alarming.

This retired Army lieutenant colonel got physically ill when he saw Donald Trump literally roll out the red carpet for Vladimir Putin this week. | Opinion

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent delivered this line in response to criticism of President Trump inviting Russian President Vladimir Putin to U.S. territory: "He displayed a huge amount of military hardware and then did a flyover.

Instead, it appears this letter was whipped up to appeal to a much different audience: Trump’s MAGA base, especially those needing reassurance that he cares about “the children” after weeks of painful reminders he had a decade-plus close friendship with a man who was reportedly the world’s most infamous pedophile.

Mark Warren, of Anchorage, said he was handed the keys to the spanking new Ural motorbike in a motel parking lot by a Russian embassy employee last week after Vladimir Putin’s high-stakes

The meeting is notable in how American churches are embroiled in controversies involving Orthodoxy in Ukraine.

"The Black Sea will define the future of the European security order for generations to come," write Galip Dalay and Natalie Sabanadze.