President Trump’s admiration for President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been endlessly dissected, but the American leader’s policy shifts since taking office again could have profound effects.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that Moscow is willing to consider cooperating with the U.S. in mining rare earth minerals both in Russia and parts of Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Team Trump foolishly did just that Friday in the Oval Office, and in doing so, they turned the football over to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Instead of taking the easy win, President Trump ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dispatched a group of senior officials to Saudi Arabia for meetings with the U.S. about a potential peace deal for Ukraine, the Kremlin announced Monday.

President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin “wants to stop fighting” and shot down a suggestion that Putin’s ambitions could extend beyond Ukraine’s borders. “I think he wants ...

But there's little question President Donald Trump's public comments appearing to accommodate Russia's President Vladimir Putin over a possible Ukraine war peace deal are a major departure from ...

On one hand, Russian officials are convinced that Vladimir Putin has become the ultimate role model for these American titans. After all, wasn’t it Putin who popularized the gangster swagger ...

Of course, this wasn’t the beginning of Trump’s love affair with Putin, it’s just the latest, crowning episode. It started with developer Donald Trump trying to build a new Trump Tower in ...

Retired U.S. Army Gen. Jack Keane said he suspects Russian President Vladimir Putin will wait for President Trump to leave office before trying to topple the government in Ukraine. In an interview ...

Europecategory· March 13, 2025 Putin on a ceasefire in Ukraine, Western companies and gas President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia agreed with U.S. proposals for a ceasefire in ...

Trump has a history of positive and admiring comments about Putin that have long prompted criticism that he is “soft on Russia”. He rejects that, saying that no U.S. president was ever tougher ...