Moscow obfuscates again in new remarks by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. Russia’s top diplomat said Friday the Kremlin is “not ready at all” for a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, pouring cold water on U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to set up a summit.

Vladimir Putin gave Donald Trump a strict 15-minute window to make a late-night phone call to the Kremlin after White House peace talks with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent told Laura Ingraham that after his discussions with Zelensky and a host of European leaders on Monday,

President Donald Trump walked into a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin pressing for a ceasefire deal and threatening “severe consequences” and tough new sanctions if the Kremlin leader failed to agree to halt the fighting in Ukraine.

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and NewsNation senior political contributor George Will joins "On Balance" to discuss how the United States needs help from Europe if President Trump's bid to ensure peace between Ukraine and Russia is to succeed: LELAND VITTERT,

Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met on Friday, August 15, for the first time in six years — and now parts of their conversation have been revealed. The president of the United States and the Russian leader appeared to be in great spirits as they met and shook hands on a red carpet placed down in Anchorage,

Nor was there a glint of a nuclear-arms-control deal, which Mr Putin had suggested. Both spoke about economic opportunities, but there was little that was tangible. Mr Trump said he would brief Mr Zelensky and European leaders,

President Donald Trump remarked in private comments to French President Emmanuel Macron that he believes Russian President Vladimir Putin "wants to make a deal" with Ukraine for peace.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has made a mockery of Donald Trump’s push for peace by launching one of the biggest bombardments against Ukraine in weeks, including striking a U.S. factory. Days after Trump rolled out the red carpet for Putin in Alaska,