Putin called it “madness” that Ukraine has independence ... pre-recorded speech blaming NATO for the current crisis and calling the U.S.-led alliance an existential threat to Russia. Putin ...

The West is waging a full-scale war against Russia, and Moscow should respond in full, former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said.Mr Medvedev, now deputy chairman of Russia's Security Council, ...

Pifer, who was ambassador to Ukraine from 1998 to 2000, sees echoes of that sentiment in Russian President Vladimir Putin’s threats against Ukraine, with one big difference.

Indeed, Mr. Putin sought to recast his aggressive war as a reactive one. “The territorial integrity of our motherland, our independence and freedom will be defended,” he said .

In a speech as menacing as his declaration of a “special military operation” against Ukraine in February, President Vladimir Putin has declared a partial mobilization of Russian citizens to ...

Putin has argued he sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022 to fend off a threat to Russia posed by Ukraine’s push ... in ...

Trump announced fresh military support for Ukraine and threatened sweeping tariffs on Russia's trading partners, in a bid to pressure Moscow into ending its war within 50 days.

There’s a simple way for President Trump to get Putin to the negotiating table: Give Ukraine what it needs to push the ...

However, if Putin really does view the U.S. presence in Eastern Europe and its budding “military infrastructure” in Ukraine as a threat, he may see this buildup as a pretense for intensifying ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin held a phone call with US President Donald Trump. Putin stated Russia wants peace in Ukraine ...

The president clarifies that he does not believe Ukraine should target major Russian cities but that there will be more "sanctions and tariffs" if there is no peace in 50 days. On July 4, Independence ...

Trump ‘not done with Putin yet’ despite threat of Russian sanctions - The US president expressed disappointment in the Russian president over his continued attacks on Ukraine ...