Trump announced Oct. 12 that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to a truce on striking each other's energy infrastructure, saying the two sides agreed "because I told them to." Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky said Russian forces...
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed on Sept. 23, 2026 that President Trump has invited Russian President Vladimir Putin to attend the G20 summit at Trump National Doral in Miami on Dec. 14-15, after meeting Russian...
Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah asked the Senate Judiciary Committee on September 22, 2026, to investigate and subpoena Donald Trump Jr. over a Bahamas wedding celebration that ProPublica reported was partly funded...
ProPublica reported Monday that Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev — secretary general of the International Boxing Association and a Putin ally — secretly paid for a substantial share of Donald Trump Jr.'s May wedding in the...
Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff traveled by train from Poland to Kyiv on Sept. 7 for Trump envoys' first-ever wartime visit to Ukraine, arriving directly from talks with Vladimir Putin in Moscow. At a joint press...
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, sanctioned by the United States in April 2022, attended the G20 finance ministers' meeting in Asheville, North Carolina, on Aug. 31 at the Trump administration's invitation — his...
CIA Director John Ratcliffe traveled to Moscow on Aug. 25 for previously unannounced meetings, sources told CBS News, which first reported the trip. A U.S. Air Force C-17 was spotted flying into a Moscow airport that...
On August 15, 2025, President Trump hosted Russian President Vladimir Putin at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage for the first meeting between the two leaders of Trump's second term. Putin was received with a...
On August 6, 2025, President Trump signed an executive order imposing an additional 25% tariff on Indian goods as a penalty for India's continued purchases of Russian crude oil, stacking it on top of the 25% rate already...
In early April 2025, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control removed Karina Rotenberg, the U.S.-citizen wife of Putin-linked billionaire Boris Rotenberg, from its sanctions list, while simultaneously...