The State Department’s internal intelligence agency cast doubt earlier this year on the notion that Russian President Vladimir Putin was prepared to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, dissenting from a more optimistic Central Intelligence Agency assessment of potential talks, according to several current and former officials.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the country has tested a new, nuclear-capable missile and is preparing to deploy it.

President Trump refuses to waste time on an unproductive summit with Vladimir Putin, citing the need for a guaranteed Ukraine peace agreement before any meeting occurs.

Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán was delighted to learn last week that Russia and the United States had chosen his country as the venue for another summit on ending the war in Ukraine.

Russian President Putin is calling the sanctions the Trump administration has imposed on Russian oil an "unfriendly act." Putin also said the U.S. sending new weapons to Ukraine would have a "serious response.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches

Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022 after claiming the defense of the breakaway regions Luhansk and Donetsk, launching an attack across the Eastern European country. Should no peace deal materialize in the next few months, the war will enter its fourth year, with both countries losing tens of thousands of men to the conflict.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy for investment and economic cooperation, Kirill Dmitriev, said on Sunday that he had continued talks with representatives of President Donald Trump's administration in the United States.