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US first lady Melania Trump has brokered a coming ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine in the war-ravaged Ukrainian city of Oleshky to allow for humanitarian aid and the evacuation of civilians, the White House announced on Friday. The localised ceasefire is set to begin Thursday, with the American first lady saying in a news release that the situation there is “on the brink of disaster”. The White House said Melania Trump had initiated the discussions and that she and a representative worked...

Russia’s territorial gains this year are effectively nil as it heads into trilateral talks with Ukraine, US.

The US-brokered talks are the first planned talks since negotiations stopped earlier this year.

Talks between Russia, Ukraine and the United States are planned to resume in November in the United Arab Emirates, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Friday.

Russia’s grain industry is looking to increasingly niche solutions for shipping wheat as attacks in the Black Sea continue to choke off exports from the world’s biggest supplier.

Trump has declined to comment on the process that led Starlink to lift speed and access restrictions on Ukraine.

Diplomats from the EU’s 27 member states were pressured this week to lift sanctions on Yusha Group, a Chinese textiles manufacturer accused of selling sensitive European technology to Russian buyers. In exchange, Beijing has pledged that the company will refrain from shipping banned items to Russian military-linked buyers. It will also remove German company Sindlhauser Materials from its own export controls list, according to multiple sources familiar with the affair. The unusual quid pro quo –...

President of Romania Nicușor Dan said that Europe was not prepared for the hybrid approach taken by Russia as the region deals with the military 'collateral damage' from the war in Ukraine, as well as targeted cyberattacks. Dan said that recent drone attacks against ships in Romania's territory of the Black Sea are not incidental and believes that Russia is looking to 'escalate' the war and provoke European countries. (Source: Bloomberg)

The three waves of Russian missiles were launched at hours after Russia said it was "ready in principle" to resume peace talks with the US and Ukraine.

A Ukrainian man was arrested on suspicion of spying for Russia - one of several such cases in Germany this year.

Ukraine and Russia exchanged drone and missile strikes on Thursday, killing seven people in Ukraine, according to authorities. Moscow said it had intercepted 630 Ukrainian drones targeting the Russian capital. The strikes came hours after US envoy Steve Witkoff met Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg. Witkoff said Moscow was ready to resume trilateral talks with Kyiv and Washington.

Military has raised the threat level of ​Russian sabotage against German troops and facilities.

Overnight attacks on Kyiv injured 15 people, while two were injured in Moscow as Russia said it intercepted 163 drones.

Russia’s nuclear expertise, close ties with Tehran and negotiation experience could give Moscow an edge as a mediator.

Francisco Blanch, Bank of America Commodities and Derivates Research Global Head, discusses energy markets and the volatile context around oil inventories as conflicts in the Middle East and Russia's invasion of Ukraine continue. "We've been living a little bit on borrowed time," Blanch tells Bloomberg Television. He adds crude oil could face a crunch point in "maybe four, five months." (Source: Bloomberg)

Russia and Ukraine traded major attacks overnight with Moscow’s mayor saying on Thursday that 630 drones had been launched towards the region, shortly after a US envoy held talks with the Russian president in St Petersburg. Following Wednesday’s meeting between his envoy Steve Witkoff and Vladimir Putin, US President Donald Trump claimed the two sides were nearing a breakthrough. “The other day I was talking to Vladimir Putin about settling his war with Ukraine, which I think we’re getting...

Moscow, Oct. 21 (Jiji Press)--Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova on Wednesday condemned a Japanese company's delivery of interceptor drones to Ukraine. Calling the delivery a clear act of hostility, Zakharova warned that Russia would take strong countermeasures against Japan. Japanese drone developer Terra Drone Corp. said on Oct. 14 that it had delivered interceptor dr...

Research carried out by the Alliance4Europe NGO suggests that pro-Russian networks manipulated information online in an effort to exacerbate anger in France ahead of last weekend's massive protests and subsequent unrest. After analysing more than half a million posts across various social media platforms, the group says it was able to track the campaign back to the start of September. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Omri Preiss, Managing Director at the Alliance4Europe.

Research carried out by the Alliance4Europe NGO suggests that pro-Russian networks manipulated information online in an effort to exacerbate anger in France ahead of last weekend's massive protests and subsequent unrest. After analysing more than half a million posts across various social media platforms, the group says it was able to track the campaign back to the start of September. FRANCE 24's Sharon Gaffney speaks with Omri Preiss, Managing Director at the Alliance4Europe.

Moscow dispatches its inaugural diesel shipment to the US, aiming to ease fuel shortages as midterm elections loom.

Russia's President Putin does not feel under pressure right now to end the war.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signalled Moscow is willing in principle to resume talks with Ukraine and the US.

US President Donald Trump's pivot away from Ukraine has triggered fresh questions about his attachment to Russian leader Vladimir Putin, the man a top American envoy flattered on Wednesday as a "humanitarian. Trump has cast his dealings with Putin as part of a mega-deal that has secured the release of American detainee Stephen Hubbard -- and which Trump says will end Russia's war on Ukraine. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kharkiv.

The announcement came after Russian President Vladimir Putin met US President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg.

Russia will send on Thursday its first diesel tanker to the US to an undisclosed port.

President Volodymyr Zelensky on Wednesday called for the front line in Russia's war against to Ukraine to be frozen along current lines as a first step toward peace talks. His comments came as US special envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russia's President Vladimir Putin in Saint Petersburg.

Angela Diffley is pleased to welcome Peter Zalmayev, Founder and Director of the Eurasia Democracy Initiative, LIVE from Kyiv. And he warns, "I'm seeing, I'm smelling a Yalta II. I'm smelling another Munich (1938), where we're seeing appeasement of the aggressor." Ukraine faces the possibility that its sovereignty and security could become mere bargaining chips in an era Zalmayev describes as great-power "collusion". He delivers a forceful critique of the Trump administration's approach to Russia, arguing that Washington is weakening Ukraine's negotiating position while offering Vladimir Putin little incentive to abandon his maximalist demands. At stake, he suggests, are the cohesion of the transatlantic alliance, and the credibility of Western security commitments.

Traders now see a 64% chance of Russia-Ukraine peace talks by year-end, up 27 points in 24 hours after Putin agreed to resume talks after 10 November. The post Ukraine Peace Talk Odds Jump to 64% appeared first on The Rio Times.

A major development in US-Russia relations. Russia has released retired American teacher Stephen Hubbard, imprisoned on charges of fighting as a mercenary in Ukraine.

Europe should work with Beijing to develop shipping through the Arctic rather than trying to advance its transatlantic security alliance by framing China as a threat linked to Russia. That was the assessment of Chinese analysts following the release of the European Union’s Arctic policy on Tuesday. In addition to identifying Russia as its main threat, the policy warns of Beijing’s growing strategic ambitions in the European Arctic through its deepening alignment with Moscow. “With our new...