The Netherlands-based International Criminal Court in 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Putin, accusing the Kremlin chief of illegally deporting hundreds of Ukrainian children from the war-torn country. The ICC also issued an arrest warrant for Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian presidential commissioner for children's rights.

Ukraine’s president and European leaders are accusing Russian President Vladimir Putin of stalling on peace efforts in Ukraine.

Rob Dannenberg understands Vladimir Putin. He was CIA station chief in Moscow and served as the chief of operations for CIA's Counterterrorism Center. He now works as an independent consultant on geopolitical and security risk and is the co-author of A Spy Walked Into A Bar: A Practitioner's Guide to Cocktail Tradecraft.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said he would be ready to join Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin at a proposed summit in Hungary if he were invited. The US and Russian presidents announced after their phone call on Thursday that they planned to hold talks on the war in Ukraine in Budapest, possibly in the coming weeks.

After Thursday’s phone call with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, President Trump appeared to express doubts about supplying Ukraine with more powerful weapons.

A Russian Doomsday Radio dating back to the Soviet era which normally now just emits a buzzing sound has now crackled back into life with apparent coded messages

The UK's unwavering support for Ukraine has infuriated Russian leader Vladimir Putin, who now sees the country as his "number one enemy", John Healey has warned. Delivering the Lord Mayor of London’s Defence Lecture at Mansion House on Monday night, the Defence Secretary said Ukraine 's Volodymyr Zelensky calls the UK "his closest ally".

The denial came after a Financial Times report described a closed-door meeting at the White House that allegedly devolved into a “shouting match."