Category: Putin

Moscow Hosts Regional Defense Chiefs in Fresh Sign of Turkey-Syria Thaw 

Top Turkish defense and intelligence officials met their Syrian counterparts this week in Moscow at meetings also attended by Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu. Held on Dec. 28, it was the first meeting between Turkish and Syrian defense ministers in more than a decade. The gathering, which wasn’t announced in advance, is expected to pave…


Putin Oversees Commissioning of New Russian Navy Warships

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw the commissioning of new warships and vowed Thursday to further strengthen his country’s navy. “We will speed up and increase the volumes of construction of ships of various projects, equip them with the most modern weapons, and conduct the operational and combat training using the experience received during the special…


LIVE NOW: NTD Evening News (Dec. 27): SCOTUS Keeps Title 42 in Place for Now; Putin Bans Oil Exports to G-7 Nations That Abide by Price Cap

The Supreme Court on Dec. 27 chose to keep Title 42, a Trump-era pandemic immigration policy, in place for now. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a ban on oil exports to Group of Seven nations that abide by a price cap they agreed to on Russia’s oil. The ban is set to kick in in…


NTD Evening News (Dec. 27): SCOTUS Keeps Title 42 in Place for Now; Putin Bans Oil Exports to G-7 Nations That Abide by Price Cap

The Supreme Court on Dec. 27 chose to keep Title 42, a Trump-era pandemic immigration policy, in place for now. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a ban on oil exports to Group of Seven nations that abide by a price cap they agreed to on Russia’s oil. The ban is set to kick in in…


Putin Oversees Launch of Siberian Gas Field Feeding Pipeline to China

Russian President Vladimir Putin presided over the launch of a major new Siberian gas field on Wednesday to help drive a planned surge in supply to China. The Kovykta gas field will feed into the Power of Siberia pipeline carrying Russian gas to China. With recoverable reserves of 1.8 trillion cubic meters, it is the…


Study: 2.1 Million Could Die From COVID-19 in China

Over 2 million people could die in China. A new study predicts a death peak in January. A Beijing funeral home is cremating five times more bodies daily. Applications for American visas are on hold for Chinese citizens. Meanwhile, the German embassy in Beijing is also halting its visa services. A new study ranks nations…


Scholz: Risk of Russia Using Nuclear Weapons Has Diminished, for Now

BERLIN—The risk of Russian President Vladimir President Putin using nuclear weapons as part of his war in Ukraine has decreased in response to international pressure, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said. The war was continuing with “undiminished brutality” though, for now, one thing had changed, Scholz told Funke media in an interview published on Thursday to…


Putin Says Further Prisoner Exchanges With United States Are Possible

Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that further prisoner swaps between the United States and Russia were possible, and that contacts between the two countries’ intelligence services would continue. Putin was speaking at a news conference in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a day after the United States freed Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout in exchange for…


Russia’s Putin Drives Across Repaired Bridge to Crimea

MOSCOW—Russian President Vladimir Putin tried to boost Russian morale Monday by driving a vehicle across a bridge to Crimea that a truck bomb had damaged in October. Putin took the wheel of a Mercedes to drive across the bridge that links Russia’s mainland with the Crimean Peninsula, which Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Like…


Putin Is Open to Talks and Diplomacy on Ukraine, Kremlin Says

MOSCOW—President Vladimir Putin is open to talks on a possible settlement to the conflict in Ukraine and believes in a diplomatic solution, the Kremlin said on Friday after Joe Biden suggested he was prepared to speak to the Russian leader. Biden, speaking beside French President Emmanuel Macron, said the only way to end the war…