Vladimir Putin has until midnight to agree to a 30-day ceasefire with Ukraine or leading European states, including the UK, will impose new sanctions against Russia, the German government's spokesman has said.

Analyst and ex-intelligence officer from the United States Scott Ritter, known for his comments on international politics, commented on Russian President Vladimir Putin's proposal to hold direct talks with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15.

The Istanbul meeting will be decisive in determining a ceasefire: if it does not take place, it will signal that Russia is not interested in ending the war. In that case, the West must act decisively and impose the strongest possible sanctions package,

Putin ordered thousands of Russian troops into Ukraine in ... he wants to end the "bloodbath" that his administration casts as a proxy war between the United States and Russia. In a film by state television about Putin's quarter of a century as Russia's ...

President Donald Trump accused Russian President Vladimir Putin of being too busy celebrating VE Day to deal with the “bloodbath” in Ukraine. “I’m starting to doubt that Ukraine will make a deal with [Vladimir] Putin,

the United States was not represented. However, Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov said Trump and Putin "exchanged congratulations on the occasion of our common holiday." In Raddatz's interview with Peskov, the Kremlin spokesperson lauded the ...

With his war on Ukraine, Russian President Vladimir Putin has transformed strategic realities in Europe. Russia is once again a great power. The West should recognize this.

Chinese President Xi Jinping told Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday their two countries should be "friends of steel", as they pledged to raise cooperation to a new level and "decisively" counter the influence of the United States.