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Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump in 2017. They’ve been in contact several times since Trump’s return to the White House.

This is the war Trump didn’t want, and his ‘peacemaker’ credentials are falling apart

Never has a US president delegated the negotiation over a critical national interest to an American enemy. Yet we seem to be on the brink of exactly that.

  • Peter Hartcher

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Anthony Albanese could make another attempt to meet Donald Trump.

Australia races to lock in new meeting with Trump to avoid second snub

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese may now change his plans and attend next week’s NATO summit – if a face-to-face meeting with Donald Trump can be locked in.

  • James Massola
Wrecked cars after a Russian airstrike on a residential building in Kyiv on Tuesday.

An Oval Office blow-up, a Vatican sign of peace … and a Canadian cold shoulder

The Ukrainian president travelled to the G7 hoping to once more win over Donald Trump. It was not to be.

  • Samya Kullab and Vasilisa Stepanenko
US President Donald Trump.

It has held dictators to account for 75 years, but Trump has left it in survival mode

It was founded to ensure people living in restrictive regimes in post-Soviet states had access to uncensored news. But the future of Radio Free Europe is more uncertain than ever.

  • Rob Harris
Illustration by Dionne Gain

Trump’s Russian delusion is complete. He sees Putin as a peacemaker

The evidence of the Russian’s uncanny and growing influence over Trump suggests that perhaps he is now the de facto US national security adviser to the president.

  • Peter Hartcher
Macron (centre), Danish PM Mette Fredricksen (right) and Greenlandic PM Jens-Frederik Nielsen present a united front in Nuuk on Sunday.

As Trump covets Greenland, Macron detours to say it’s not for sale

The French leader expressed strong support for the strategic Arctic island amid reports the US has drawn up plans to take it by force.

  • Kwiyeon Ha and Sylvie Corbet
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Ukrainian drones destroy Russian bombers

First Ukraine, now Israel: How smuggling drones is changing the art of war

Many details about the secretive operations and how they were carried out remain murky, but such missions can take years to plan and are fraught with danger.

  • Lara Jakes
China’s servicemen take part in the Victory Day military parade in Moscow on May 9.

Putin declares it’s an unshakeable friendship. But his spies say China is ‘the enemy’

A secretive intelligence unit in Russia’s domestic security agency has warned that China poses a serious threat to security as it tries to recruit Russian spies and get its hands on sensitive military technology.

  • Jacob Judah, Paul Sonne and Anton Troianovski
US President Donald Trump in the Oval Office on Thursday.

‘Takes two to tango’: Trump mulls punishing Ukraine, as well as Russia

Meanwhile, the Kremlin has accused Britain of being involved in the surprise drone attack that destroyed Russian bombers at the weekend.

  • Catherine Lucey, Kate Sullivan and Arne Delfs
Kyiv's surprise drone attack last weekend resulted in billions of dollars damage to Russia's military aircraft.
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Extended footage shows Ukraine's drone raid on Russia's bombers

Kyiv's surprise drone attack last weekend resulted in billions of dollars damage to Russia's military aircraft.

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