The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Labour foreign secretary David Lammy and US vice-president JD Vance hosted a meeting of national security advisers on Saturday, as Donald Trump prepares to meet Vladimir Putin next week

The US president announced that he would meet Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska on August 15 to discuss the Ukraine war.

Ukraine won't give up land to Russia, President Volodymyr Zelensky warned early on Saturday, hours after Washington and Moscow agreed to hold a summit in a bid to end the war.

European leaders urged more "pressure" on Russia overnight Saturday, after the announcement of a Trump-Putin summit to end the war in Ukraine raised concern that an agreement would require Kyiv to cede swathes of territory.

Donald Trump has confirmed he will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss the war in Ukraine.

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Trump and Putin are set to meet in Alaska next Friday to discuss ending Moscow's all-out war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, Zelenskyy emphasised that Ukrainian territorial integrity is non-negotiable. Later on Saturday, a US official said that Trump was 'considering' holding a trilateral meeting.

First lady is facing increased scrutiny as political experts suggest she is behind US president’s recent volte-faces on Gaza and Putin

The Last Frontier state was purchased from the Russians by the U.S. for a sum of $7.2 million in 1867