Ukrainian officials negotiating with their Russian counterparts are to ensure direct talks between the countries’ leaders that could lead to bringing peace, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said late on Sunday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin’s announcement that his nuclear forces were on alert sparked outcry in the West as the invading troops faced stiff resistance on Monday.
Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a ‘military operation’ in Ukraine on Thursday and called on soldiers there to lay down their arms, defying Western outrage and global appeals not to launch a war.
Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the deployment of troops to two breakaway regions in eastern Ukraine after recognizing them as independent on Monday, accelerating a crisis the West fears could unleash a major war.
President Joe Biden said on Friday that Russian President Vladimir Putin has decided to invade Ukraine and that he continues to spread false information to try to build a pretext for a military strike that could happen in days.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered his administration to consider an apparent new system to ban ‘toxic’ internet content, although details were not released.
Russian and US diplomats held talks behind closed doors in Geneva on Thursday, the latest round of discussions between the world’s top two nuclear powers following a June summit between US President Joe Biden and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has termed Bangabandhu as an ‘outstanding’ political leader in his congratulatory message marking the 50th anniversary of Bangladesh’s independence and the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.