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President Trump has boxed himself into a corner with Vladimir Putin over the war in Ukraine — and it’s not entirely clear how he gets out. Trump’s claim that he could end the war in Ukraine within ...

President Trump and Russian officials are engaged in a war of words, a sign of escalating tensions between the two powers as Trump grows increasingly frustrated over the lack of progress toward a ...

A two-hour-plus call was an eyebrow-raising shift in both substance and tone from Donald Trump: there was no demand for ...

President Trump dug in on his criticism of Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, warning that Russia’s leader is “playing with fire.” “What Vladimir Putin doesn’t ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping ... to change the way we approach space pretty rapidly,” Gen. Michael Guetlein, vice chief of space operations for the U.S ...

MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed direct talks with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul that he said should be aimed at achieving a durable peace and eliminating the root ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin met for formal talks on Thursday for the first time since President Donald Trump exacerbated the U.S.-China trade war last month.

As the chances of President Donald Trump’s peace deal in Ukraine seemingly recede, attention turns back to the question of Vladimir Putin and his war aims. What does the Russian president want ...