Russia

How US Peace Plan for Ukraine and Russia Might Look

This is Beirut, 23/04 19:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Ukraine USA Volodymyr Zelensky Donald Trump Russia Vladimir Putin

The United States has piled pressure on Ukraine and Russia to find a peace agreement, with President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance threatening to walk away if a deal is not made. So what does Washington want? Some official demands have already been made public, and media outlets have reported on several unannounced plans for a US-led ...

Russia and Ukraine Accuse Each Other of Breaching Easter Truce

This is Beirut, 20/04 18:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Russia Ukraine

Russia and Ukraine on Sunday accused each other of violating an Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces were continuing their shelling and assaults along the front line despite Putin announcing the surprise truce. The 30-hour truce starting Saturday evening to mark ...

Zelensky Says Ukraine Will Observe Putin’s Easter Truce but Claims Violations

This is Beirut, 20/04 03:20 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Ukraine Russia Volodymyr Zelensky Conflict Ceasefire

Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday his forces would observe a surprise Easter truce announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin set to last until midnight on Sunday, even as air-raid sirens sounded in Kyiv. The truce would be the most significant pause in the fighting throughout the three-year conflict. But just hours after the ...

Easter Truce Under Scrutiny as Ukraine Accuses Russia of Violations

This is Beirut, 19/04 18:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Russia Ukraine Vladimir Putin Volodymyr Zelensky

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Saturday that Ukraine would observe the Easter ceasefire declared earlier that day by Russian President Vladimir Putin. However, Zelensky simultaneously accused Moscow of breaching its own commitment just hours after it was announced. “If Russia is genuinely willing to commit, Ukraine will do ...

Sultan of Oman to Meet Putin in Moscow

This is Beirut, 19/04 14:15 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Sultan of Oman Oman Vladimir Putin Russia Iran

The Sultan of Oman will visit Moscow on Tuesday to hold talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin, the Kremlin and Muscat said on Saturday, as the Gulf state mediates high-level talks on Iran's nuclear program. The Kremlin said the talks with Oman's Sultan Haitham bin Tariq would cover "current questions on the international ...

Trump: US Will “Take a Pass” on Ukraine Talks if Stalemate Persists

This is Beirut, 18/04 20:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Donald Trump Ukraine Russia Vladimir Putin

President Donald Trump said Friday the United States will "take a pass" on brokering further Ukraine war talks unless there is quick progress from Moscow and Kyiv. Trump was speaking after Secretary of State Marco Rubio commented -- following talks with European allies - that Washington would "move on" if a truce did not seem "doable" within ...

US Threatens to Withdraw from Ukraine Talks if no Progress

This is Beirut, 18/04 14:40 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

Ukraine Russia USA Marco Rubio

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Washington could soon exit efforts to reach a Ukraine ceasefire if it decided peace was not "doable", after meeting European and Ukrainian officials in Paris. European powers have been seeking a seat at the table since US President Donald Trump's shock decision to open talks with Russia to end ...

Rubio Says US to Decide Within Days if Ukraine Ceasefire 'Doable', Calls on Europe to Act over Iran’s Nuclear program

This is Beirut, 18/04 11:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Ukraine USA Iran Russia Marco Rubio

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Friday said Washington needed to decide soon if an Ukraine truce was feasible, as he left Paris following meetings with European officials. He also said that European countries needed to decide whether to reimpose sanctions on Iran as Tehran was not complying with a nuclear deal. "We need to figure out here ...

Zelensky Claims China Is Supplying Weapons to Russia

This is Beirut, 17/04 20:00 - Reading : 1 minute(s)

Volodymyr Zelensky Russia Ukraine China

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday that he had "information" China was supplying weapons to Russia, amid an escalating row between Kyiv and Beijing over China's support for Moscow. Zelensky said last Wednesday that Kyiv knew of at least 155 Chinese nationals deployed to assist Moscow's invasion, a day after claiming the ...

Russia Removes Taliban From Terrorist List in Bid to Boost Ties With Afghanistan

This is Beirut, 17/04 16:40 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

Russia Taliban Terrorism

Russia's Supreme Court on Thursday removed the Taliban's designation as a "terrorist organization," a symbolic gesture aimed at building friendly ties with Afghanistan's de facto rulers. The Islamist group seized power in Afghanistan in August 2021, when American forces supporting the country's internationally recognized government pulled ...

Kremlin Refuses to Say If Halt on Ukraine Energy Strikes Would be Extended

This is Beirut, 16/04 17:35 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

Russia Ukraine Energy

The Kremlin on Wednesday declined to specify when a 30-day moratorium on strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure would end -- or whether it would be extended -- just hours before the agreement was set to expire. Russian President Vladimir Putin said on March 18 he had ordered his army to halt attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure for 30 ...

Search
Latest news