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First Russian diesel from Putin-Trump deal heading for US, data shows

The identities of the buyer and seller were not immediately known. The cargo will be the first imported by the US since former President Joe Biden announced a ban on US imports of Russian oil in 2022

A drone view shows the Russian-flagged tanker Bratsk, which is under U.S. sanctions for links to the Russian state-owned shipping company Sovcomflot, near the Baniyas oil terminal, in Baniyas, Syria, April 8, 2026.
Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Jared Kushner, U.S. President Donald Trump's son-in-law, and U.S. Special Envoy Steve Witkoff at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia, September 5, 2026.

Putin suggests meeting with Trump, Xi to discuss Ukraine war resolution - report

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to the media in the Chernihiv region, Ukraine, October 8, 2026.

Zelensky says Ukraine's patience has run out as Kyiv strikes Russian refinery despite US pressure

US President Donald Trump speaks with media before boarding Marine One as he travels to Grand Island, Nebraska, on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, DC, US, October 5, 2026.

Trump, Putin to discuss suspected plague case as US officials press Russia for answers


Russia's Putin meets US envoy Witkoff amid tensions between US, Russia, Interfax says

Trump, who warned that he would impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine before Friday, had said earlier that Witkoff might be traveling to Moscow this week.

US Special Envoy Steve Witkoff speaks during a swearing-in ceremony for Jeanine Pirro as interim US Attorney for the District of Columbia at the White House in Washington, DC, US, May 28, 2025.

Netanyahu working to resolve tensions, mediate between US, Russia - report

Tensions have risen between Russia and the US in recent days due to Trump's decision to send nuclear submarines to the area over the weekend.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes a call with US President Joe Biden following Iran's attack on Israel. April 14, 2024.

US halts some missile shipments to Ukraine over low stockpiles, sources say

The Pentagon said it was providing President Donald Trump with options to continue military aid to Ukraine in line with the goal of ending Russia's war there.

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky attends a press conference, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Kyiv, Ukraine, April 4, 2025.

Trump remains frustrated at being unable to end Gaza, Ukraine-Russia wars - WSJ

Trump admitted to a group of private donors at his Florida club last week that finding a solution for the Israel-Hamas conflict had been a challenge as  “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.”

 US PRESIDENT Donald Trump in the Oval Office last Friday: Since Trump’s election as president last November for a second term, the US has no longer been committed to the previous world order in which it had played such a major role in creating and running, the writer maintains.

Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility

INSS gives recipe for calibrated confrontation with Moscow to reduce support for Iran, Houthis, Hamas without leading to conflagration

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R)

Trump envoy in Russia for talks with Putin about Ukraine

US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a Ukraine peace deal and a potential Trump-Putin summit.

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin shake hands as they meet in Helsinki, Finland July 16, 2018

Kremlin says it is hard to imagine talks with US on new nuclear arms reduction treaty

The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.

 THE KREMLIN, Moscow.

Cautious of Trump's Russian pivot, Israel debates sharing intel, NBC reports

Some officials in other allied countries played down the idea that Trump's policies on Russia would disrupt intelligence cooperation that dates back decades.

 RUSSIAN NEWSPAPERS with front pages dedicated to the recent phone call between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump, are laid out at a newsstand in Moscow, last week.

US deports Russian man wanted for armed robbery, Moscow says

Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in 2014.

 Russian and US state flags fly near a factory in Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, Russia March 27, 2019

Israeli national handed two year sentence in US for shipping aviation parts to Russia

Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, was sentenced for using his international freight forwarding company to violate US export control laws.

 Russia selling oil for gold in September