USSR sweatshirt and chicken kyiv: Russia dials up trolling before Alaska summit Foreign minister’s attire and inflight menu for Russian media are latest in series of provocations towards Ukraine The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025
US-Russia talks on Ukraine: who’s who in the delegations to Alaska? Putin will bring old guard loyalists and younger financial power brokers to meet Trump’s most trusted advisers The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025
Trump-Putin summit in Alaska: One meeting, different goals Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin might be chasing different outcomes from the much anticipated Alaska summit on Friday. While the US president believes he can make a ceasefire deal with Putin, Russia's leader might have other ideas. Euronews · Aug 15, 2025
What’s at stake at the Trump-Putin Ukraine peace summit? These are the key issues the leaders of the US and Russia will need to resolve to achieve an end to the war in Ukraine The Guardian - UK · Aug 15, 2025
Ukraine war briefing: Putin says US making ‘sincere efforts’ to end war as Russian troops make gains Russian presidents suggests summit with Donald Trump in Alaska could result in nuclear arms deal; EU leaders praise US president for offering backup for European ‘reassurance force’. What we know on day 1,269 The Guardian - AU · Aug 15, 2025
Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,268 Here are the key events on day 1,268 of Russia’s war on Ukraine. Al Jazeera · Aug 15, 2025
Starmer could attend second US-Russia meeting on ending Ukraine war, says Trump The US president raised the prospect of European leaders being invited to a second meeting if the Alaska summit is successful. Evening Standard · Aug 14, 2025
Putin is floating a new nuclear deal with the US ahead of Trump talks. Here’s why The move might dissuade Trump from imposing new sanctions on Russia The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2025
Trump-Putin Alaska summit: What we know about the upcoming meeting The Kremlin released the detailed agenda for Vladimir Putin’s Friday meeting with Donald Trump as the US president is expected to push the Russian leader to agree to a ceasefire in Moscow’s war against Ukraine. What will Putin bring to the talks? Euronews · Aug 14, 2025
Trump’s Alaska summit with Russia is shaping up to be the most important of his second presidency What happens when a convicted felon and a man under indictment for alleged war crimes get together? What sounds like the opening line of a great joke, sadly, is probably the defining meeting of the second term of Donald Trump as US president. The Conversation · Aug 14, 2025
Retired Army General says Trump needs to convince Putin that Russia can’t win in Ukraine Former presidential candidate Wesley Clark warns Kremlin leader will not respond to conventional diplomatic threats, arguing sanctions have been tried and failed The Independent UK · Aug 14, 2025
Putin to offer financial incentives to Trump at Ukraine summit Russian leader plans to discuss economic ties, in appeal to Trump’s business instincts, alongside future of Ukraine The Guardian - UK · Aug 14, 2025
Trump-Putin talks: Is Russia really contesting US sovereignty over Alaska? As the Russian and US presidents prepare to meet in the Alaskan capital, speculation that Vladimir Putin rejects the legitimacy of Russia’s 1867 sale of Alaska to the US has resurfaced online. Euronews · Aug 14, 2025
Trump alone in a room with Putin is a recipe for disaster – just look to their last meeting The two plan to meet behind closed doors Friday in Alaska to discuss ‘land swapping’. What will happen this time? The Guardian - US · Aug 13, 2025
International Business Times · Aug 13, 2025 Trump And Putin: A Strained Relationship Donald Trump styles himself as a strongman. "I'm going to be telling him, 'You've got to end this war,'" Trump said.
The Guardian - UK · Aug 13, 2025 Trump swallowing Putin’s lies is a bigger threat to Ukraine than bombs The Russian leader will say he wants peace as long as it serves his interests – and play on the president’s desperation to ‘make a deal’ quickly, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr
Al Jazeera · Aug 12, 2025 Russia seeks full Ukrainian withdrawal from Donetsk in east: Zelenskyy The purported ceasefire demand comes as Russia tries to seize more land before Trump-Putin talks on Friday in Alaska.
Al Jazeera · Aug 12, 2025 The view from Russia: Putin will take ‘symbolic steps’ during Trump talks Mixed feelings in Moscow before Friday’s summit as analysts are sceptical that peace in Ukraine will be secured.
International Business Times UK · Aug 11, 2025 New Book Reveals Horrifying Reason Putin's Father Married His Mum – And Why She Has a Glass Eye A new Proekt book, 'The Tsar in Propria Persona', alleges a shocking origin to Vladimir Putin's parents' marriage, including a pitchfork attack that left his mother with a glass eye, amid claims the Kremlin has long obscured his private life.
Euronews · Aug 11, 2025 Zelenskyy tries to warn Trump not to trust Putin ahead of Alaska meeting It took Ukraine’s president time and effort to not only repair his diplomatic relations with the Trump administration, but also to prove that no one wants the end of Russia’s all-out war more than Ukraine does. Can he now convince Trump not to trust Putin?
The Guardian - UK · Aug 11, 2025 European leaders set to join call with Zelenskyy and Trump on Wednesday, Germany says - as it happpened Trump also expressed frustration with Ukrainian president and pushed for a Zelenskyy-Putin meeting during press conference
The Independent UK · Aug 10, 2025 Russians crow over Trump-Putin summit being held in Alaska: ‘Makes the US an Arctic nation’ Professor of Russian politics says ‘symbolism of holding the Trump-Putin summit in Alaska is horrendous’
The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2025 Confusion over the Alaska summit shows Vladimir Putin still calls the shots Donald Trump rewarding the Kremlin’s hardline attitude shows Russia can still sideline Ukraine from deal to end war
Fortune · Aug 9, 2025 Putin will meet Trump as a ‘fiscal crunch’ is about to hit Russia’s war machine “Though that may not be enough to compel Putin to seek peace, it does suggest that the walls are closing in on him.”
The Independent UK · Aug 9, 2025 Trump reveals where and when he will meet Putin for Ukraine peace talks The meeting between the two leaders will be the first US-Russia summit since 2021