Putin sours on Trump over his latest Ukraine shift

US president ‘impressed’ with Ukrainian drones hitting targets deep into Russia, say officials

New Trump appointee fires several office of director of national intelligence staff – report

Firings come less than a week after US president appointed Bill Pulte as acting director after Tulsi Gabbard left the post Several staff members have reportedly been fired from the US office of the director of national intelligence (DNI), multiple outlets have reported. These firings come less than a week after Donald Trump appointed Bill Pulte as the acting director after former director Tulsi Gabbard left the post in late May. According to CNN, who was first to report the firings on Monday,...

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Putin: Russia ready for talks with Ukraine only if based on Istanbul 2022 agreements

Russian ruler Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is willing to hold peace talks with Ukraine, but only on the basis of the terms agreed during the negotiations in Istanbul in 2022, which were widely viewed as unfavourable to Ukraine.

By Alona Mazurenko

Pummelled by Ukraine, Russia says US hasn’t delivered on Trump-Putin ‘understandings’

Russia has accused the ⁠US of failing to deliver on “understandings” reached between presidents Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump at a summit in Alaska last August, a shift that suggests growing frustration in Moscow. In the space of three days, three senior Russian officials have said, without providing specifics, that Washington has not followed through. Their comments follow an intensification of Ukraine’s drone strikes deep inside Russia – including two attacks last week on a Moscow oil...

By Reuters

Trump’s ‘Who did not vote for me?’ question gets unexpected response at Pennsylvania rally; video viral

President Trump put a man on the spot at a Pennsylvania rally after asking the crowd who didn't vote for him.

South Ossetian President Alan Gagloev resigns

Gagloev has announced that he is moving to work as an adviser in the Kremlin.

By Elizaveta Chukharova

Russia Says U.S. Not 'Objective Mediator' in Ukraine

Separately, President Vladimir Putin said Europe was "openly" preparing for war through its massive rearmament program — which is being urged on by Trump.

Putin told his cabinet that Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries are having no effect on the war. He said this at a meeting called to address the fuel crisis those strikes helped create.

Vladimir Putin chaired a government meeting where officials briefed him on fuel shortages spreading across Russia’s regions and occupied Crimea.

Putin says Russia ready for peace talks with Ukraine based on Anchorage, Istanbul agreements

Says Ukraine is trying to create favourable conditions ahead of stalled peace talks

By Anadolu Agency

'Russia ready for Ukraine peace talks based on Istanbul framework'

Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow remains ready to resume peace negotiations with Ukraine on the basis of proposals discussed during earlier talks in Istanb...

Putin says NATO is preparing for war against his country

The strongman of the Kremlin spoke to hundreds of graduates of military academies The post Putin says NATO is preparing for war against his country appeared first on ProtoThema English.

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Gagloev Resigns as Tskhinvali’s De Facto Leader, Becomes Putin’s Adviser

Alan Gagloev has resigned as the de facto leader of occupied Tskhinvali/South Ossetia and has been appointed adviser to Russian President Vladimir Putin, amid the so-called “Treaty on Deepening Allied Cooperation” between Tskhinvali and Moscow, which Tbilisi sees as another step toward the region’s annexation. Gagloev, who has held the de facto post of “president” …

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