President Donald Trump's two-week ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin over Ukraine marks a dramatic ~ and risky ~ turn in US foreign policy.
Trump's remarks come in the wake of Russia's latest massive air assault on Ukraine over the weekend, which resulted in several civilian casualties, including children.
In the latest twist in the long and brutal war in Ukraine, US President Donald Trump has once again injected himself into the peace process ~ this time, after a twohour phone call with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The call, which focused on reviving stalled peace negotiations, marks a significant diplomatic development in the three-year-long war.
US President Donald Trump said that Russia and Ukraine will begin ceasefire negotiations and that the Vatican has offered to host them.
Like Putin, Patrushev is a career Russian intelligence agent, first with the Soviet KGB, then later with the Russian FSB, the report said citing Moscow Times.
Putin also offered an opportunity to UN and ICRC representatives to have a look at how Russia treats Ukrainian war prisoners.
In December 1991, three presidents, Boris Yeltsin of Russia, Stanislav Shushkevich of Belarus and Leonid Kravchuk of Ukraine met secretly at Belavezha in Belarus. That meeting rang the death knell of the Soviet Union.
Russia has withstood this "unprecedented pressure" as the ruble's value has returned to the level of the first half of February and the surplus
The same effect was provoked by the embargo of the US, which is not even a significant market for the Russian Federation.
