EU leaders meet to counter pressure from Russia, China and Trump

European Union leaders are gathering in Belgium as the bloc argues over how to stand up to pressure from the United States, ...

Russia just delivered the ultimate insult to Trump

Perspective: Russia's public mockery of Trump’s negotiating credibility comes as peace talks are stepping up.

There's an India-US.-Russia love-hate triangle — and it's complicated

An audacity of opacity has seen observers suggest that India is being "strategically ambiguous" when it comes to the U.S.

Vance visits Armenia, Azerbaijan as Trump eyes deals in Russia’s sphere

The vice president’s historic trip illustrates Trump’s transactional diplomacy and willingness to use economic muscle to elbow out rivals such as Russia and Iran.

Trump’s Greenland play comes with Russia and China running circles around the US in the Arctic as expert sees ‘big game of catch-up’

A prescient new book outlines the future of warfare in the far north, and just how far behind its rivals the US still is.
Meduza

Russia keeps citing a ‘spirit of Anchorage’ from last summer’s Trump–Putin summit, but that term exists only in Moscow’s vocabulary

Russian officials and state media have eagerly adopted the term “the spirit of Anchorage,” sometimes substituting “the ...

Zelenskyy calls on Trump to respond to Russia’s massive attack as talks resume in Abu Dhabi

As the talks in Abu Dhabi between Ukraine, the US and Russia continue, Volodymyr Zelenskyy called on the US president to ...

Quieter night in Ukraine as Trump says Putin agreed to pause strikes

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will "take corresponding steps" as Trump says Putin agreed to stop bombing Ukrainian cities for a week ...
Las Vegas Sun

Russia thinks it can outsmart the US during Ukraine peace talks, a European intelligence chief says

Russian officials have no intention of ending their war in Ukraine, according to a senior European intelligence official ...