Russia dismissed Ukraine’s Easter truce offer – then declared its own days later
A year ago, Russia declared the same kind of ceasefire – and violated it more than 2,000 times.
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While West watches Middle East, Russia quietly secured foothold in world’s second-largest graphite producer
Russia got cobalt, graphite, rare earths, and access to a key Indian Ocean shipping route.
“I am at your service”: Bloomberg transcript shows Orbán pledged full assistance to Putin
Bloomberg reviewed a transcript of Orbán's 17 October 2025 call with Putin: "I am at your service." Budapest summit talks, fables, and Hungary's election Sunday.
Why is Russia asking its billionaires to fund a war its $190 billion defense budget should cover?
Kerimov pledged $1.2 billion. The Kremlin called it spontaneous.
WP: Russian Intelligence planned to stage an assassination attempt on Orban to influence the election results
Russian intelligence operatives, alarmed by Orbán's declining poll numbers, drew up a plan they called "the Gamechanger" — a staged attack on the Hungarian prime minister designed to move the election away from economics and toward security, The Washington Post reported
‘He’s got nothing to gain’: Ex-US envoy says Putin, not Zelenskyy, is blocking a ceasefire
With Russian casualties potentially reaching 1.4 million and sanctions cutting into the economy, former US special envoy Keith Kellogg says Putin still has not accepted the core condition for peace: that "he's not going to gain any more land."
Trump confirms Putin call, administration weighs easing Russia oil sanctions amid Iran-driven price surge
In a phone call that lasted roughly an hour, Donald Trump told Vladimir Putin that ending the Ukraine war would be more "helpful" than proposals on Iran — then his administration announced it was weighing sanctions relief that would allow countries like India to buy Russian crude without US penalties.
Putin is collecting gifts from Iran’s war he didn’t even ask for: huge oil check and permission to kill
The US went to war against Iran to neutralize a threat. For Putin, it's a gift basket.
Russia removes giant “victory will be ours” propaganda banner from Seoul embassy after South Korean backlash
Meanwhile, South Korean activists confront the Russian embassy on war anniversary.
Putin has already started World War Three — “the question is how to stop him,” Zelenskyy tells BBC
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the BBC in an interview that a ceasefire built on territorial concessions would only buy Russia a two-year pause before it attacks again, and that the only answer is "intense military and economic pressure" to force Moscow to step back.
“Putin and his friends are not in prison” – Zelenskyy says world already made its biggest compromise with Russia
Ukrainian president pushes back on US calls for concessions.
Ukrainians warned for years that Europe’s human rights chief was a Kremlin conduit. The Epstein files just proved them right.
Thorbjørn Jagland offered to connect Jeffrey Epstein to Lavrov. KGB defectors had named him "Yuri" decades earlier.
Under Jagland Europe ignored Russia’s annexation of Crimea — files reveal his link with Putin and role in Epstein’s obsession
There are 1,055 Putin mentions in Epstein files.
She spent 15 years decoding Russian talks. Her verdict: the battlefield will decide.
A seasoned former diplomat on reading Russia's negotiation theater
Zelenskyy willing to meet Putin face-to-face over nuclear plant and territorial disputes
President Zelenskyy is prepared to negotiate directly with Putin over the thorniest issues in peace talks—territories and the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, Foreign Minister Sybiha said in an interview.
Russia uses nuclear treaty expiration to pressure US into abandoning Ukraine peace efforts, ISW reports
The Kremlin is leveraging the New START treaty, set to expire in February 2026, as a bargaining chip to distract Washington from finalizing a peace settlement and convince the Trump administration to concede to Russian demands on Ukraine.
Security guarantees for Ukraine are not public. Former Ukrainian ambassador to US says it’s because they are not real
US security guarantees are "paper tiger that won't frighten Putin," he adds.
US peacekeepers could monitor Donetsk ceasefire—but Russia demands Ukraine surrender cities first
Moscow insists Kyiv cede Sloviansk, Kramatorsk, and Kostiantynivka before any deal.
Putin eyes Trump’s Board of Peace as path to unfreeze billions in Russian assets
Kremlin proposes remaining funds rebuild "territories damaged by fighting"—meaning occupied Ukraine, ISW says
Russia invokes mysterious “Anchorage formula”, as trilateral Ukraine talks begin in Abu Dhabi
Moscow demands all of Donbas, citing alleged Trump-Putin August agreement