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US VP Vance says Russia has made significant concessions toward Ukraine peace deal  Reuters Vance says U.S. can still broker peace in Ukraine-Russia war  The Washington Post ‘Aggressive economic leverage’: JD Vance says Trump applied secondary tariffs on India to force Russia to  Times of India Vance expresses optimism that ‘energetic diplomacy’ will end the war in Ukraine  NBC News Vance says Russian sanctions …

Exclusive | Pentagon Has Quietly Blocked Ukraine’s Long-Range Missile Strikes on Russia  The Wall Street Journal Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from striking deep inside Russia – report  The Guardian Pentagon restricts Ukraine’s use of US missiles against Russia, WSJ reports  Reuters Pentagon has quietly barred Ukrainian long-range strikes in Russia with US missiles, WSJ reports  The Kyiv Independent US approves sale of over 3,000 …

US defense officials have blocked Ukraine from using US-supplied long-range missiles to strike targets inside Russia since late spring as part of a Trump administration effort to get Vladimir Putin to engage in peace talks , according to a report on Saturday. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Pentagon has blocked Ukraine from using US-made Army Tactical Missile Systems, …

Donald Trump intends to leave Russia and Ukraine to organize a meeting between their leaders without directly playing a role for now, according to administration officials familiar with the situation, taking a step back from the negotiations to end Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The next stage in Trump’s eyes to end the war in Ukraine remains a bilateral meeting between …

Russia just sent a mini menagerie to orbit. The Bion-M No. 2 biosatellite launched atop a Soyuz rocket from the Russia-run Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today (Aug. 20), rising off the pad at 1:13 p.m. EDT (1713 GMT; 10:13 p.m. local time in Kazakhstan). Onboard are 75 mice and 1,000 fruit flies, along with a variety of microbes, cell cultures …

Facebook Tweet Email Link Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he is ready to make “some compromise” on his demand that a ceasefire takes place before any talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin – as long as some security guarantees for Ukraine are established. His comments come as Moscow openly contradicts the White House narrative that plans for a bilateral meeting …

Moscow has said it must be part of any international talks on Ukraine’s security, as Russia continues to stall on Donald Trump’s push for a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Russia’s foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, said on Wednesday that Moscow must be included in any talks on Ukraine’s security guarantees, dismissing European diplomacy as “aggressive escalation” and a …

Reuters Anti-drone nets hang over a road near Kostyantynivka earlier this month A key takeaway from the summit in Alaska is that Russian President Vladimir Putin reportedly wants to freeze the war in Ukraine along its current front line in return for the surrender of the rest of Donetsk region. Russia holds about 70% of the region (oblast), including the …

Russia Demands Role in Guaranteeing Ukraine’s Postwar Security  The New York Times Russia wants … Russia to have veto over Western security guarantees for Ukraine  politico.eu Russia says talks on Ukraine’s security without Moscow are a ‘road to nowhere’  Reuters Russia says talks on Ukraine security guarantees must include Moscow  Al Jazeera Russia says it must be part of international talks on Ukraine’s security  The …

“Moscow won’t agree with collective security guarantees negotiated without Russia … Russia will accept if the security guarantees to Ukraine are provided on equal basis with the participation of countries like China, the United States, the United Kingdom and France,” Lavrov said in a press conference, after meeting the Jordanian foreign minister. Beijing and Moscow having any say in how …