In September 2022, Moscow claimed to have annexed the four Ukrainian regions and to this day it does not fully control them. Putin illegally annexed Crimea in 2014. Kyiv has repeatedly rejected any suggestion it would surrender the regions.

After Trump’s third phone call with Putin since his inauguration, it appears there will be no let up in fighting and less U.S. pressure on Moscow.

President Donald Trump held a high-stakes call with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday, the latest in a series of high-level meetings and negotiations as the Trump administration and international allies seek an end to Russia's war in Ukraine.

Garry Kasparov said the Russian leader is using the notion of a ceasefire to play Trump like “a broken guitar.”

U.S. President Donald Trump’s phone calls with the leaders of Russia and Ukraine have deepened expectations that progress might soon be made on ending those countries’ more than three-year war

The Kremlin has withstood pressure for an immediate cease-fire as a precondition for peace talks, but the Russian president’s push for normalizing relations with the United States appears in limbo.

EU defense and foreign ministers are meeting in Brussels with Ukraine high on the agenda. The Europeans are calling for US more pressure on Russia if Moscow doesn't agree on a ceasefire. More on DW.

Vladimir Putin is facing an economic nightmare as Russia's positive balance of payments - the total income of money from abroad against total outflows - between January and April took a 31.7% hit, new figures have revealed.

Apple has been fined $131,000 by a Russian court that found it guilty of breaking the country's laws on what it describes as LGBT propaganda.

President Donald Trump spoke with reporters in the Oval Office Monday about his phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier in the day, telling the press, there are "very big egos involved,

Until last week, a secretive fleet of ships ferrying Russian oil around the world showed no clear links to the Kremlin. That changed when Russia used a fighter jet in an apparent effort to protect a tanker.