President Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron to discuss issues including the war in Ukraine, where the two have expressed starkly different views. Macron has argued that any negotiated end to the war must come with “strong and credible security guarantees for the Ukrainians,

But, from Mr Putin’s point of view, he had good reason to be part of it. As the boss of one of Russia’s state-backed investment funds, Mr Dmitriev has been cutting deals for more than a decade. Mr Putin wants America to loosen sanctions on his economy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin suggested on Wednesday that a Ukrainian drone attack on the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) pumping station in southern Russia might have been coordinated with its Western allies.

China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes for peace in Ukraine.

It'll be a deal with rare earths and various other things,” he said, adding that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy might come to the Oval Office as early as this week to sign the agreement. In a post on Truth Social on Monday,

"The View" co-host Joy Behar suggested that President Donald Trump might owe something to Russian Vladimir Putin during a discussion about his admin's posture on the war.

European nations are rushing to spend more as America threatens to withdraw its longstanding protection.

National Security Advisor Mike Waltz on Thursday dodged a question on whether Russian President Putin was a dictator. The question came during a White House press briefing. This comes as President Trump this week referred to Ukrainian President Zelenskyy as a dictator.

A mix of stories lead Friday's newspaper front pages, including the latest in the rift between the US and Ukraine.

China's President Xi Jinping spoke with his ally Russian President Vladimir Putin by phone on Monday, China's state media reported, on the third anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.