Page 15 - Latest Updates on Ukraine peace talks

US mulls supplying long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine, says JD Vance

Tomahawk missiles have a range of 2,500 km (1,550 miles), and would be a powerful asset in Ukraine's arsenal as it fights back against regular barrages of Russian missile and drone attacks

Russia embeds war machine into economy as Putin eyes long-term power

Years of massive defense outlays have locked the country in a state of militarization that's transformed factories and sucked in hundreds of thousands of workers

Putin has Ukraine peace proposal Trump is familiar with: Lukashenko

Lukashenko meets Putin more often than any other foreign leader and has backed his war in Ukraine, although without committing his own troops to fight

Oil prices climb over 4% as Russia curbs fuel exports amid Ukraine attacks

Russia will introduce a partial ban on diesel exports until the end of the year and extend an existing ban on gasoline exports, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Thursday

India urges Russia to release 27 more Indians recruited into Russian army

India has called upon Russia to release 27 more Indian nationals who were recently recruited into the Russian military. Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal on Friday said New Delhi has come to know that more Indians are working with the Russian military, with new inputs coming from their families. "As per our information, 27 Indian nationals are presently serving in the Russian army. We are also in close touch with their family members in the matter," Jaiswal said at his weekly media briefing. "We once again strongly urge all Indian nationals to stay away from the offers being made to serve in the Russian army as they are fraught with danger and risk to life," he added. Jaiswal said India has strongly taken up the matter with Russian authorities. "We have strongly raised this matter with Russian authorities in Moscow and with the Russian embassy in New Delhi, and asked for them to be freed as soon as possible," he said. "We are trying to get them out,"

Hungary's Orban tells Trump cutting Russian energy would cripple economy

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbn said Friday that Hungary will continue to source fossil fuels from Russia despite demands from his ally US President Donald Trump, and that he'd informed the president that dropping Russian energy would be a disaster for Hungary's economy. Hungary remains one of the only countries in Europe to continue purchasing Russian oil and natural gas following Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. But Trump, an admirer of the long-serving Hungarian leader, earlier this month called on all NATO countries including Hungary to cease purchasing Russian oil, since he believes the Russia-Ukraine war would end if they did so. In comments to state radio on Friday, Orbn said he recently told Trump that that dropping Russian energy imports would be an economic disaster for Hungary. I told the US president ... that if Hungary is cut off from Russian oil and natural gas, immediately, within a minute, Hungarian economic performance will drop by 4 p

Denmark PM warns of more Russian hybrid attacks as another drone suspected

Authorities still cannot conclude who is behind several drone incidents across Danish airports in recent days, but Russia remains Europe's main adversary, seeking to destabilize the continent, PM said

Trump hosts Pak PM Shehbaz Sharif, Asim Munir amid strained India ties

Donald Trump hosted Pakistan PM Shehbaz Sharif at the White House, marking a thaw in US-Pakistan ties as India-US relations remain tense over tariffs and Russian oil imports

Global South mustn't rely on single market, says EAM S Jaishankar

He bemoaned the fact that the "very concept of multilateralism is under attack" with international organisations having been rendered ineffective or starved of resources

Zelenskyy questions UN's effectiveness, says weapons decide survival

The Ukrainian leader underscored that the decisive factor in the war with Russia would be weapons rather than legal frameworks

India 'mostly' with Kyiv in conflict with Russia: Ukraine prez Zelenskyy

Expressing cautious optimism, Zelenskyy acknowledged New Delhi's position on energy-related complexities, an issue which has been consistently raised by the US President Donald Trump

Rubio defends India-US bond, but warns tariffs signal stance on Russia war

Rubio made the comments in an interview with Good Morning America, stating that Trump's additional tariffs on India were part of actions taken against Russia for its war on Ukraine

'Ended 7 wars, never got call from UN': Highlights from Trump's UNGA speech

From a broken escalator and teleprompter mishap to jabs at India, China, and the UN, here are the top takeaways from US President Donald Trump's speech at UNGA

Nato should shoot down Russian aircrafts breaching airspace, says Trump

Trump said he believed that Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, was positioned not only to fight back but to reclaim all the territory taken by Russia

Trump, Zelenskyy meet at UN as Ukraine presses for US help against Russia

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met President Donald Trump on Tuesday at the United Nations headquarters in New York as he seeks additional US help in defending his country from Russia's onslaught of missiles, drones and bombs. The two presidents, who have had strained ties in previous sitdowns, greeted each other warmly on the sidelines of the annual UN General Assembly gathering of world leaders. We have great respect for the fight that Ukraine is putting up, Trump told Zelenskyy, who replied that he had good news from the battlefield. We will speak of how to finish the war and security guarantees, Zelenskyy said, thanking the US leader for the meeting and for his personal efforts to stop this war. As the fighting rages on, Trump said the biggest progress toward ending the conflict is that the Russian economy is terrible right now. Zelenskyy said Ukraine agreed with Trump's call for European nations to further halt imports of Russian oil and natural gas. Trump says the w

Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia with Nato's help: Trump

President Donald Trump said Tuesday that Ukraine can win back all territory lost to Russia, a dramatic shift from the US leader's call on Kyiv to make concessions to end the war. Trump offered his position in a social media posting soon after meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly gathering of world leaders. Trump in part wrote, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form. With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe and, in particular, NATO, the original Borders from where this War started, is very much an option. The strengthened support from Trump, if it sticks, is a huge win for Zelenskyy, who has urged the American president to keep up the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his brutal war. However, the post did not include language about new US sanctions or tariffs targeting Russia's energy ..

Explaining Nato's Article 4 as Estonia seeks talks on Russian violation

NATO allies on Tuesday will hold formal consultations at Estonia's request after the Baltic country said that three Russian fighter jets entered its airspace last week without authorisation. Russia's Defence Ministry denied the accusation. The intrusion on Friday lasted 12 minutes and was a fresh test of the military alliance's ability to respond to Moscow's airborne threats after around 20 Russian drones entered Polish airspace on September 10. NATO's 32 ambassadors meet most weeks in a format known as the North Atlantic Council at the military alliance's headquarters in Brussels. Estonia has requested consultations under Article 4 of NATO's founding treaty. Poland also requested Article 4 talks after the drone incident, and two days later, NATO launched an operation, dubbed Eastern Sentry, to bolster the organization's military presence with European aircraft and other defences along its eastern flank. However, Article 4 talks do not mean automatic military or diplomatic ...

Ukraine braces for tough autumn as Russia steps up drive to seize Donetsk

Fall is expected to bring another gruelling test for Ukraine's armed forces as Russia intensifies its campaign to seize an eastern region, once Ukraine's industrial heartland and a territory it has long sought to conquer. Russia now controls about 70 per cent of the Donetsk region. Ukraine's forces have been pushed back to a string of four cities that analysts have dubbed its fortress belt, where they've repelled Moscow's efforts to seize the region for years. But shortages of troops, supplies and chaotic management are making it increasingly hard to resist Russia's relentless pressure in the region. As the more-than-3-year-old invasion continues despite months of US-led peace efforts, analysts and the military say the country could struggle to resist an intensified push to seize the last cities in the region under Ukrainian control. Moscow is taking the territory piecemeal Analysts and Ukrainian officers say that Russia is unlikely to engage in protracted urban battles and avoid

Trump to highlight foreign policy record in speech at UN general Assembly

Watched by the world, President Donald Trump returns to the United Nations on Tuesday to deliver a wide-ranging address on his second-term foreign policy achievements and lament that globalist institutions have significantly decayed the world order, according to the White House. World leaders will be listening closely to his remarks at the UN General Assembly as Trump has already moved quickly to diminish US support for the world body in his first eight months in office. Even in his first term, he was no fan of the flavour of multilateralism that the United Nations espouses. After his latest inauguration, he issued a first-day executive order withdrawing the US from the World Health Organisation. That was followed by his move to end US participation in the UN Human Rights Council, and ordering up a review of US membership in hundreds of intergovernmental organisations aimed at determining whether they align with the priorities of his America First agenda. There are great hopes for i

Copenhagen Airport reopens after drone sightings, some delays expected

Flights at Copenhagen Airport resumed early Tuesday after being suspended or diverted overnight because of drone sightings. Police reported two to three large, unidentified drones were seen Monday night, forcing outgoing flights at Scandinavia's largest airport to be grounded and others diverted to airports nearby. Copenhagen Airport has reopened after being closed due to drone activity. However, there will be delays and some cancelled departures. Passengers are advised to check with their airline for further information, its official website said. Local media show a significant police presence in the vicinity of the airport. A drone incident the same evening at the Oslo, Norway, airport forced all traffic to move to one runway, according to Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Traffic later returned to normal and it's unclear who was responsible. Security concerns in northern Europe are heightened following an increase in Russian sabotage activities and multiple drones and fighter jet ...