Kaja Kallas: The EU has approved its 17th sanctions package against Russia, targeting nearly 200 shadow fleet ships. New measures also address hybrid threats and human rights. More sanctions on Russia are in the works. The longer Russia wages war, the tougher our response
7 month agoSBIS malfunction in the Russian Federation due to a massive hacker attack. About 4 million users complain that they cannot send and receive documents or sign contracts because of this. SBIS is an electronic document management system.
Trump: Imposing sanctions on Russia may make the situation worse, but that could happen at some point.
President Volodymyr Zelensky said he asked Donald Trump "not to make any decisions about Ukraine without us" before the US president spoke with Russia's Putin. "These are matters of principle for us and very important," Zelensky told reporters
7 month agoTrump says his phone call with Putin was excellent: "Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties
Russia is ready to work on memorandum with Ukraine, that will include ceasefire - Putin after talk with Trump
President Trump is currently speaking by phone with Putin about efforts to reach a ceasefire with Ukraine, a senior White House official said.
White House: Everything is on the table regarding imposing additional sanctions on Russia
7 month agoThe Russian Navy has detained an oil tanker that left an Estonian port. According to the Estonian Foreign Ministry, the tanker Green Admire, flying the Liberian flag, left the port of Sillamae in eastern Estonia for Rotterdam in the Netherlands, but was detained by Russian authorities
Earthquake of magnitude 4.7 - 74 km ESE of Kuanda, Russia
Trump: I will be speaking, by telephone, to president Vladimir Putin of Russia on Monday, at 10:00 a.m. the subjects of the call will be, stopping the “bloodbath” that is killing, on average, more than 5000 Russian and Ukrainian soldiers a week, and trade. I will then be speaking to President Zelenskyy of Ukraine and then, with President Zelenskyy, various members of NATO
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov had a phone call with State Secretary Rubio, discussed talks in Istanbul
Kremlin: Next step after Istanbul talks with Ukraine is prisoner exchange and list of conditions for ceasefire
7 month agoTurkish Foreign Minister: As a result of intensive diplomatic efforts, Russian and Ukrainian delegations held a meeting in Istanbul, facilitated by Türkiye. As a result of the meeting, they agreed to exchange one thousand people from each country as a confidence-building measure. They also agreed to share with the other side in writing the conditions that would make it possible to reach a ceasefire. The parties also agreed in principle to meet again.
We are satisfied with the results of the negotiations with Ukraine, - the head of the Russian delegation Medinsky. We are ready to talk further, the exchange of prisoners 1000 for 1000 will take place in the coming days
Zelensky, Macron, Merz, Starmer and Tusk had a telephone conversation with US President Donald Trump. The main topic of the conversation was the talks in Istanbul
7 month agoPutin held a meeting with permanent members of the Russian Security Council. The topic was information security
7 month agoNegotiations between Russian and Ukrainian delegations have begun in Istanbul
7 month agoTrilateral talks between delegations of Ukraine, the US and Turkey begin in Istanbul, – Ukrainian Foreign Ministry
Trump: I will meet with Putin “as soon as we can set it up”
Trump: We’ll see what happens with Russia and Ukraine. Now it’s time to go back home
Sources in Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said the country will take part in two trilateral meetings in Istanbul on Friday, as part of diplomatic efforts to end the war in Ukraine
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Turkish Foreign Minister Fidan will meet with Russian delegation led by Putin’s presidential aide Medinsky at Istanbul's Dolmabahce Palace this evening: Foreign Ministry
7 month agoPutin appointed the commander of the Russian Ground Forces, Oleg Salyukov, as Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council.
7 month agoRuNet suffers major outage: users report that banks, streaming services, social networks, YouTube, Steam and neural networks like DeepSeek are experiencing interruptions
I decided to send a delegation to Istanbul - Zelensky According to the President of Ukraine, he is doing this out of respect for Trump and Erdogan and in an attempt to achieve at least the first steps to end the war. The delegation will be led by Defense Minister Rustem Umerov. The main mandate for the Ukrainian negotiating team is a ceasefire.
Trump just spoke about Russia and Ukraine, telling reporters that "nothing is going to happen until Putin and I get together"
Rubio is meeting with European Quint Counterparts and NATO SecGen Mark Rutte to discuss Russia-Ukraine and other key topics as Lavrov accusing Western European countries of not really seeking peace in Ukraine
