U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff has told President Donald Trump that giving Moscow “ownership” of four occupied Ukrainian regions would be the fastest way to achieve a ceasefire, Reuters reported on April 11, citing two unnamed U.S. officials and five other undisclosed sources. According to Reuters, Witkoff conveyed this proposal to U.S. President Donald Trump after meeting…
It is one of the options for freezing the conflict, Rodion Miroshnik said US Presidential Special Envoy for Ukraine Keith Kellogg’s idea to divide Ukraine into zones of control between European countries and Russia, following the example of post-war Berlin, is one of the options for freezing the conflict and could lead to a new…
Retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg appeared to suggest in an interview that Ukraine could be divided like Berlin after World War II. President Donald Trump’s special envoy to Ukraine appeared to suggest that the country could be divided like Berlin after World War II, as another of his envoys held long talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Urged…
“China’s position on settlement in Ukraine is quite balanced, and we are grateful to our friends for that,” Andrey Rudenko noted Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Andrey Rudenko has slammed statements that Chinese citizens are fighting in Ukraine as absolutely false. “I can say that nothing could be farther from the truth, mildly speaking,” he told…
The top Russian diplomat came from Almaty after a meeting of the CIS Council of Foreign Ministers Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has arrived in Antalya, Turkey, where he will take part in a diplomatic conference and hold talks with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan, according to a TASS reporter. Lavrov came from Almaty after…
The Turkish leader also noted that he has close contacts with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and US leader Donald Trump on the Syrian issue Turkey is ready for further and comprehensive development of relations with Russia, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said at the official opening ceremony of the 4th Antalya Diplomacy Forum. “We are…
According to a TASS correspondent, the draft of a program for medium-term cooperation was approved at an expanded session of the CIS Foreign Ministers Council The CIS Council of Border Guard Commanders has approved a draft of a cooperation program under which security on the external borders of the Commonwealth of Independent States is to…
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday met with Steve Witkoff, a special envoy of US President Donald Trump, in St. Petersburg for talks on the Ukraine conflict. The Kremlin said the meeting focused on “various aspects of the Ukrainian settlement”, without elaborating. The talks were held behind closed doors, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said earlier. He said the two sides…
“The Trump administration has this understanding and it has repeatedly stated in public that Zelensky will have to accept the loss of land,” Russia’s top diplomat said The administration of US President Donald Trump understands that Ukraine’s Vladimir Zelensky hates Russians and that he will have to accept the improbability of recapturing areas, Russian Foreign…
Chinese President Xi Jinping will pay state visits to three Southeast Asian countries – Vietnam, Malaysia and Cambodia – next week, the Chinese Foreign Ministry announced on Friday. The five-day tour to the neighboring countries, lasting from Monday to Friday, will be Xi’s first trip abroad this year. The visits will come days after the…
“There is an opportunity to form payment platforms independent of external influence, one example being the financial messaging system of the Bank of Russia,” the Russian foreign minister said Countries that do not belong to BRICS will also be able to access alternative payment platforms within the association if they are created, Russian Foreign Minister…
Russia’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it was expelling Romania’s military attache and his deputy in a retaliatory move against the country. In March, Bucharest said it would expel two Russian diplomats over allegations of “interference” in the country’s politics amid tensions over an annulled presidential election. Romanian authorities threw out the results of the…
Tariffs of 84 percent on all Chinese imports of American goods took effect on Thursday, deepening a trade war between Beijing and Washington which has rocked global markets and sparked fears of a recession. The levies will apply to all US products entering the world’s second-largest economy, which according to the office of the US…
The top Pentagon official for the Middle East visited Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, where he met with defense officials to discuss bilateral ties. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East Mike DiMino met with Dr. Khaled Al-Bayari, Minister of Defense Prince Khalid bin Salman’s advisor for executive affairs, according to the Saudi Ministry…
Turkey is holding technical-level talks with Israel to ease tensions over Syria but is not moving toward normalizing ties, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said Wednesday. Turkey is a key backer of the opposition-led coalition in Syria that toppled Bashar al-Assad in December after almost 14 years of civil war. Its influence has worried Israel, which has launched air strikes…
