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Trump remains frustrated at being unable to end Gaza, Ukraine-Russia wars - WSJ

Trump admitted to a group of private donors at his Florida club last week that finding a solution for the Israel-Hamas conflict had been a challenge as  “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.”

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump in the Oval Office last Friday: Since Trump’s election as president last November for a second term, the US has no longer been committed to the previous world order in which it had played such a major role in creating and running, the writer maintains.
Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018

Trump envoy in Russia for talks with Putin about Ukraine

 THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Kremlin says it is hard to imagine talks with US on new nuclear arms reduction treaty


Cautious of Trump's Russian pivot, Israel debates sharing intel, NBC reports

Some officials in other allied countries played down the idea that Trump's policies on Russia would disrupt intelligence cooperation that dates back decades.

 RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS with front pages dedicated to the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in Moscow, last week.

US deports Russian man wanted for armed robbery, Moscow says

Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in 2014.

 Russian and US state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019

Israeli national handed two year sentence in US for shipping aviation parts to Russia

Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, was sentenced for using his international freight forwarding company to violate US export control laws.

 Russia selling oil for gold in September

Americans, Russians have discussed Ukraine war through Swiss side channel, sources say

Officials held under-the-radar US-Russia talks before Trump's inauguration to discuss Ukraine war solutions.

 President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018.

Saudi Crown Prince, Russia's wealth fund chief were involved in US prisoner release, source says

Marc Fogel's Russian lawyer blamed the Biden administration for the delay in his client's release.

US President Donald Trump greets released American schoolteacher Marc Fogel, who had been held in Russia since 2021, at the White House in Washington, DC, US, February 11, 2025.

Trump repeats warning to Hamas to release hostages soon or face consequences

Trump said he would discuss ways to bring an end to the Ukraine war with Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

 (Illustrative) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and president-elect Donald Trump over a backdrop of hostage posters.

You may be 'hunted': Russia tells citizens not to visit US, major Western countries

Both Moscow and Washington say their citizens have been wrongfully imprisoned and their diplomats harassed increasingly as relations soured.

 Cat morning on Red Square. Moscow.

Russia wants to mass produce 'Oreshnik' missiles, says message to US is clear

The Kremlin said that it had "no doubt" that Washington understood its messaging behind Thursday's attack in central Ukraine.

 Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with the Ministry of Defence leadership, representatives of the defense industry and missile systems developers, in Moscow, Russia November 22, 2024.

Kremlin denies Putin-Trump call reports as 'pure fiction'

A Kremlin spokesperson said that Putin has "no concrete plans yet" to speak with Trump.

President Donald Trump shakes hands with Russia's President Vladimir Putin.

Trump in phone call advised Putin not to escalate in Ukraine - report

On Friday, the Kremlin said Putin was ready to discuss Ukraine with Trump but that did not mean that he was willing to alter Moscow's demands.

 RUSSIA’S PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin and then-US president Donald Trump attend a meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan in 2019.

Trump and Putin express desire to talk before January inauguration

Putin officially congratulated "courageous" Trump while addressing media in Sochi.

US PRESIDENT Donald Trump gestures during a joint news conference with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin after their meeting in Helsinki, Finland, July 2018