But the Kremlin leader struck a hardline tone, warning the West it was an “illusion” to think Russia could be defeated on the battlefield and that any peace deal would have to recognize Russia’s control of swaths of Ukrainian territory. Putin was speaking at the end of the BRICS summit in the city of Kazan […]
China is willing to shape the international order together with Russia in a “more just and rational direction”, a senior Chinese diplomat said as the two countries’ leaders prepare to meet this week. Under the guidance of President Xi Jinping and President Vladimir Putin, “the relationship between the two countries has always been on the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin praised Russian soldiers who fought in World War II and criticized NATO’s expansion in an op-ed published Tuesday by a German weekly. “We hoped that the end of the Cold War would be a common victory for Europe,” Putin wrote in Die Zeit. “But a different approach has prevailed based on […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised Joe Biden and said Moscow is ready for further talks with Washington in comments made a day after meeting his US counterpart in Geneva. “We are ready to continue this dialogue to the same extent as the American side is,” Putin said after he returned home from Wednesday’s meeting, […]
United States President Joe Biden and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin have agreed to hold talks on arms control and cybersecurity and to return their respective ambassadors to their posts, after a summit in Geneva that Putin described as “constructive”. The talks on Wednesday were the first meeting between the pair since Biden took office […]
