Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin held a video call hours after President Donald Trump re-entered the White House and pledged to "deepen" their partnership.

The Kremlin says a settlement in Ukraine can’t be facilitated by a drop in global oil prices as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested

Any conversation between the two would mark the first time a sitting U.S. president and Putin have spoken since the war in Ukraine began, although former President Joe Biden held phone calls with Putin multiple times in the leadup to Moscow's invasion to urge Putin against it.

Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed ties with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin on Tuesday, as the two face a more geopolitically assertive US government led by Donald Trump, who criticised the Kremlin's war against Ukraine on the first day of his second term as president.

Washington and Kyiv are holding fast to separate assumptions about the prospect of ending the ongoing war — but both could be wrong.

His inauguration speech was loudest in its silence on Ukraine. But hours later, US President Donald Trump laid bare – in a trademark casual, rambling fashion – his position over the war in Ukraine. And it was tougher on the Kremlin than you might expect.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin via a video link on Tuesday, state broadcaster CCTV reported. The talks came hours after US President Donald Trump returned to the White House and said he would meet Putin “very soon”.

VLADIMIR Putin has sensationally claimed the bloody war in Ukraine could have been avoided if Donald Trump hadn’t had the 2020 US presidential election “stolen” from him.

Chinese President Xi Jinping held a meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin via ... Donald Trump returned to the White House and said he would meet Putin "very soon". Xi told Putin he was ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday echoed U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim the conflict in Ukraine could have been prevented had he been in the White House in 2022. He also said Moscow

The Russian ambassador to the UK has claimed Britain is not going to change its approach to Moscow even if its counterparts in the US do. Unlike the rest of Kyiv’s western allies, US president Donald Trump has been pushing for a peace deal to end Russia’s war with Ukraine.

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