Ukraine Retreats From Most of Russia’s Kursk Region
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Ukraine Retreats From Most of Russia’s Kursk Region

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Ukrainian troops have withdrawn from all but a sliver of land in Russia’s Kursk region, according to military analysts and soldiers, as their monthslong campaign to seize and occupy Russian territory appears to be nearing an end in the face of Moscow’s counterattacks….

Russia Presses Offensive in Kursk Amid Cease-Fire Talks With U.S.
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Russia Presses Offensive in Kursk Amid Cease-Fire Talks With U.S.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Moscow is pressing its offensive to retake the full territory of Russia’s Kursk region from Ukraine as negotiations between the White House and the Kremlin continue over a possible cease-fire in the three-year war. Russia’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday that its forces…

Kremlin Says Putin Met With Trump’s Envoy, Steve Witkoff
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Kremlin Says Putin Met With Trump’s Envoy, Steve Witkoff

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia met with Steve Witkoff, the U.S. special envoy, in Moscow late Thursday and now expects to talk to President Trump about a possible cease-fire in Ukraine, the Kremlin said. Dmitri S. Peskov, the Kremlin’s spokesman, told reporters…

Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?
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Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Germany’s centrist politicians are losing votes to the far right and the far left. They are losing faith in America, their longtime friend and protector. And they are rapidly losing what could be their best chance to address both those problems at once….

Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine
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Putin Visits Kursk to Cheer Russian Troops Trying to Oust Ukraine

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Russia’s president, Vladimir V. Putin, dressed in fatigues, visited a command post near the front in Kursk late Wednesday to cheer on his military’s ejection of Ukrainian forces from much of the territory they had been occupying in the Russian border region. The…

Putin Is ‘Carefully Studying’ Proposed Ukraine Cease-Fire
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Putin Is ‘Carefully Studying’ Proposed Ukraine Cease-Fire

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As recently as January, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia emphatically rejected the idea of a temporary cease-fire in Ukraine. But after a month in which President Trump turned American foreign policy on its head and Russian forces made progress in a key…

Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Trump’s Embrace of Russia
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Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Trump’s Embrace of Russia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With anger in Europe mounting over President Trump’s perceived abandonment of the continent, President Emmanuel Macron of France gathered the chiefs of staff of more than 30 armed forces on Tuesday to review the formation of a multinational peacekeeping force to monitor any…

Ukraine Targets Moscow With Large-Scale Drone Attack
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Ukraine Targets Moscow With Large-Scale Drone Attack

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Russian officials said Ukraine attacked Moscow before dawn on Tuesday with its largest long-range drone bombardment of the war, as both sides stepped up attacks ahead of talks intended to find a way to end three years of fighting. The Russian Ministry of…

Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk
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Plan to Return Russian Diplomats to U.S. Poses Espionage Risk

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines As it moves to transform U.S. relations with Russia, the Trump administration is talking with Moscow about readmitting potentially scores of Russian diplomats into the United States after years of expulsions. But the good-will gesture, which would be reciprocated by Moscow, could be…