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Melania Trump Sends a Letter to Putin, Asking to Protect Children – The New York Times

Melania Trump Sends a Letter to Putin, Asking to Protect Children  The New York Times Missing Melania Makes Waves at Trump’s Ukraine Summit  The Daily Beast Zelensky Thanks Trump More Than a Dozen Times in Latest White House Visit  The Wall Street Journal First Lady Melania Trump’s ‘peace letter’ to Putin: ‘It is time’  Fox News JFK’s Grandson Dons Blonde Wig to Mock Melania …

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Zelensky says he’s ready for Putin talks as Europe welcomes Trump’s security guarantees

Zelensky says he’s ready for Putin talks as Europe welcomes Trump’s security guarantees

Zelensky leaves White House unscathed as he buys more timepublished at 05:35 British Summer Time 05:35 BST Vitaly ShevchenkoBBC Monitoring’s Russia editor Image source, Getty Images The optics could not have been more different this time. Unlike the shockingly ill-tempered previous meeting in February, US President Donald Trump and Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky seemed determined not to look confrontational – …

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Trump calls Putin at White House summit to arrange talks with Zelensky – Axios

Trump calls Putin at White House summit to arrange talks with Zelensky  Axios Trump-Zelensky Meeting Live Updates: Putin Has Agreed to Talks With Zelensky, NATO Leader Says  The Wall Street Journal How Putin Brushed Off Trump’s Latest Push for Peace in Ukraine  Time Magazine Trump interrupts talks with European leaders to call Putin, says EU diplomat  Reuters Trump calls Putin after critical Russia-Ukraine talks …

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Zelenskyy, Trump express hope for trilateral talks with Putin

Zelenskyy, Trump express hope for trilateral talks with Putin

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Monday he has begun arrangements for a face-to-face meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy to discuss a pathway to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The president made the announcement shortly after speaking by phone with Putin on Monday even as he hosted Zelenskyy and top European leaders to discuss his push to …

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Why Putin smiled broadly as he left his Alaska encounter with Trump

Why Putin smiled broadly as he left his Alaska encounter with Trump

Described by Boris Johnson as “the most vomit-inducing episode in all the tawdry history of international diplomacy”, the much-anticipated Alaska summit between the US president and the leader of Russia concluded Saturday morning Eastern Australian time. The statements by the Presidents of America and Russia that followed nearly three-hours of discussions have been the subject of intense analysis since. Vladimir …

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Maryland Democrat says Trump ‘once again got played’ by Putin – The Hill

Maryland Democrat says Trump ‘once again got played’ by Putin  The Hill ‘Next time in Moscow?’: Five takeaways after Trump and Putin’s Alaska summit  BBC Vladimir Putin ‘Got Everything He Wanted’ at Trump Alaska Summit—Senator  Newsweek Blumenthal says Putin spent summit ‘delaying’ Trump peace negotiations, reups call for sanctions  yahoo.com Backlash in Washington as Trump gives Putin a red-carpet welcome in Alaska  Financial Times Source …

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Rubio Desperately Tries to Spin Trump’s Putin Flop

Rubio Desperately Tries to Spin Trump’s Putin Flop

Secretary of State Marco Rubio scrambled to justify the administration’s lack of progress toward a Ukraine–Russia ceasefire during Donald Trump‘s recent meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Alaska. In a round of interviews on four Sunday news programs, Rubio, who used to be strongly anti-Putin, struggled to defend the administration’s position, despite Trump’s boasting that he made “BIG PROGRESS …

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Trump Officials Hint at Possible Concessions by Putin – The New York Times

Trump Officials Hint at Possible Concessions by Putin  The New York Times White House signals strong momentum toward peace in Ukraine but many questions linger  CNN Putin has agreed Ukraine can have ‘NATO-style’ security guarantee, Trump envoy says  Sky News U.S. ready to give Ukraine security guarantees when Trump meets Zelensky  The Washington Post Putin agreed to ‘robust’ security guarantees for Ukraine, says US …

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Rubio says peace agreement "a long ways off" after Putin summit – Axios

Rubio says peace agreement “a long ways off” after Putin summit  Axios Trump-Putin talks produced enough movement to justify Ukraine meeting, Rubio says  Reuters Full transcript: Secretary of State Marco Rubio on “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan,” Aug. 17, 2025  CBS News Rubio says Russia and Ukraine must make concessions for a peace deal  ABC News Rubio says Russia-Ukraine ceasefire possible, but not …

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