AI image for representation only. As US President Donald Trump pushes to end the war in Ukraine through direct negotiations with Russia, observers are asking whether Trump’s overtures to Moscow might have a deeper strategic motive: to break apart the growing alliance between China and Russia, in what some are calling a “reverse Nixon.”Driving the…
At the FII Priority Summit in Miami on Thursday, US President Donald Trump warned that “World War III is not so far away” but said that his leadership would prevent it. He also added that if former President Joe Biden’s administration had continued, the world would already be in conflict. “There’s no profit for anyone…
AI image for representation only. Saudi Arabia’s crown prince may not have been inside the room on Tuesday for the first high-level talks between Russia and the United States over Moscow’s war on Ukraine, but Mohammed bin Salman still won the day for hosting the gathering that could eventaully be the start of something game-changing…
Trump and Zelenskyy (File photo) During a session at the Munich Security Conference on Friday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy disclosed that US President Donald Trump shared his personal contact number in their recent phone call.According to AFP, Zelenskyy confirmed the exchange saying, “Yes, he gave me his telephone number,” and added that Trump had extended…
Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelenskyy (File photo) Russian President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that Moscow is open to peace talks with Ukraine but ruled out direct negotiations with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, whom he dismissed as “illegitimate” due to his term expiring under martial law.Zelenskyy hit back, accusing Putin of using “cynical tricks” to prolong the…
US President Donald Trump rebuked Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy for choosing to go to war with Russia, which is a “much bigger and more powerful” entity adding that the latter could have struck a deal with Vladimir Putin instead.“Zelenskyy was fighting a much bigger entity, much bigger, much more powerful,” Trump told Fox News. “He…
Ukraine alleged that Russian President Vladimir Putin is attempting to manipulate newly elected US President Donald Trump to achieve the peace deal on his terms without input from Ukraine or Europe and said that they will not succeed. “He (Putin) wants to decide Europe’s fate without Europe and he seeks to talk about Ukraine without…
Trump’s framing of MBS as a “fantastic guy” capable of major deals reflects his transactional approach to foreign policy. Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) has pledged a staggering $600 billion in US investments over the next four years. The MBS announcement followed a phone call with Donald Trump, marking the US President’s first…
A missile attack on Kyiv early Friday morning killed at least one person and injured 12 others, according to Ukrainian authorities. Several embassies also sustained damage in the attack, which Ukraine attributed to Russian forces.The Kyiv City Military Administration confirmed the casualties via Telegram, reporting that five of the injured were hospitalised while others received…
On Tuesday, Putin signed a decree lowering the threshold for using nuclear weapons. In a stark demonstration of its growing military arsenal, Russia fired an experimental hypersonic intermediate-range ballistic missile at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro on Thursday.Driving the news Russia fired its new hypersonic missile, the “Oreshnik” (Hazelnut), at the Ukrainian city of Dnipro…
