During a telephone conversation wiht his US counterpart Donald Trump the day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his readiness to declare a ceasefire for the duration of Victory Day celebrations

During a telephone conversation with his US counterpart Donald Trump the day before, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced his readiness to declare a ceasefire for the duration of Victory Day celebrations

US president’s statement follows comments by German chancellor that the US was being ‘humiliated’ in conflict

As we are waiting for Merz’s speech later, I am looking at some recent stories in the German press about Trump’s (repeated) threats to pull out of Germany.

And Süddeutsche Zeitung has this brilliant report from Ramstein, with a local entrepreneur giving them this amazing quote that “without Americans, we would be milking cows again.”

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© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

© Photograph: Mark Schiefelbein/AP

More than a year of similar conversations have failed to bring the country any closer to peace, so Ukrainians have stopped hoping they will.

Among the many disorienting upheavals in global trade and international relations since U.S. President Donald Trump’s first inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017, there is a single dominant trend line: the expansion and consolidation of the global reach of the People’s Republic of China, and the decline of the United States as the lodestar of the world’s democracies. Read More

Ukraine has hit an oil facility and industrial site in Russia's Perm region, roughly 1,500 kilometers from the Ukrainian border, according to Russian officials, as US President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin discussed a potential temporary cease-fire aimed at pausing the four-year war in Ukraine.

According to Russian Defense Ministry, an FPV drone crew from the 6th Guards Combined Arms Army destroyed Ukrainian army vehicles in the Kharkov Region, disrupting logistics for the delivery of supplies, ammunition, and food to enemy forward positions

Despite Ukrainian troops’ attempts to operate at night, the Russian Armed Forces are successfully detecting the UAVs using reconnaissance copters equipped with thermal imaging cameras, together with radar station operators and aerial surveillance stations

Denis Pushilin said that Russia is actively developing measures to counter the emerging threats

According to the report, such mines trigger a powerful explosion as they contain up to 5 kg of explosives

No casualties or significant damage have been reported

According to Andrey Marochko, Russian troops examining the fragments of a downed Ukrainian drone found a different navigation and communication system