Australian diplomats want Ukrainian and humanitarian counterparts to meet in-person with Oscar Jenkins in Russia, as Anthony Albanese says he refuses to take ‘the Putin regime at face value’.
The Russian president said he was ready to speak about the conflict in Ukraine with his American counterpart, whom he described as smart and pragmatic.
President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to release classified files held by the federal government on the assassinations of John F Kennedy, his brother Robert F Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.
The unexpectedly forceful warning on his second day back in the White House sends a powerful message, the significance of which should elude neither Moscow nor Kyiv and its Western allies.
Donald Trump has turned up the heat on Vladimir Putin to negotiate a deal to end the war with Ukraine, threatening Russia with ‘high levels of taxes, tariffs, and sanctions’ if he refuses.
NATO has launched Operation Baltic Sentry on the border of Russia after three underwater cables were severed in the space of two months, harming critical infrastructure.
Donald Trump says unless Moscow moves to end the war with Ukraine he’ll impose tariffs and sanctions on Russia; Elon Musk pours cold water on the Stargate AI project.
A British submarine popped up next to a Russian spy ship as a warning to Moscow after Westminster feared the ‘loitering’ vessel was monitoring undersea cables in the Irish Sea.
The collapse of Syria’s regime has spooked other rulers propped up by Russia, such as President Touadéra of the Central African Republic.
The incoming US administration expects a conversation with the Kremlin within days of taking office.
Failure in Syria and the fall of Assad, endless war in Ukraine, rejection by eastern states, a loss of influence in the global south: this is not how it was meant to be for the Russian leader. And this year it could get worse.
Russia’s folly is pushing its former Soviet satellites further away. The Azerbaijan President is right to have rejected Vladimir Putin’s obfuscation over the shooting down of an airliner.
Vladimir Putin has called for ‘scum and traitors’ to be ‘spat out like a gnat’ as part of a necessary self-detoxification of society — and there are many willing volunteers.
After initial friendly overtures and talk of democracy, Vladimir Putin’s rule quickly spiralled into stand-offs with the West and increasing political terrors at home.
Brazil manufactures the Embraer plane involved in the crash that killed 38, likely caused by Russian missiles; Vladimir Putin apologises for the tragedy but stops short of acknowledging responsibility.
The nation’s top military officer in London has warned Russia’s use of North Korean and Iranian forces to destroy democratic Ukraine is ‘everyone’s business’ and said Australia’s role is vital.
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Finland detained the Russia tanker – part of Putin’s ‘dark fleet’ of sanctions busters amid calls for NATO to defend against growing incidents of sabotage blamed on Moscow.
In his last weeks in office, Joe Biden is planning sanctions against Russia’s energy sector, targeting the ships carrying Russian oil around the world and bolstering Vladimir Putin’s war chest.
The notion of a prison swap between a forlorn Australian vegan incongruously fighting on the battlefields of the Donbas and a grossly obese, sweaty man holed up in an apartment in Woollahra, claiming diplomatic protection, invites a raft of fat jokes.
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