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Donald Trump said this week he does not know what the Kremlin is doing after peace talks in Moscow appeared to yield very little
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Vladimir Putin is risking a fresh row with Donald Trump at a crucial time in diplomacy after saying Russia is ready to provide \u201cuninterrupted shipments\u201d of fuel to India.
His provocative comments came during a visit to Delhi, where he signed cooperation agreements with prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday<\/a>.
A joint statement from the two leaders after the meeting said their ties were \u201cresilient to external pressure\u201d.
Modi is positioning India closer to Russia despite growing pressure from Trump<\/a> to stop buying Moscow\u2019s oil.
The US hit India with a 25 per cent tariff over purchases of Russian energy as it tries to put pressure on Moscow to end its war in Ukraine<\/a>.
Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov nonetheless assured on Friday that Russia and the United States were making progress in peace talks, adding that Moscow was ready to continue working with the current US team.
Vladimir Putin <\/a>ordered the \u201castonishingly reckless\u201d attempted assassination of Sergei Skripal <\/a>as a \u201cpublic demonstration of Russian power\u201d, a major inquiry into the Salisbury novichok poisonings<\/a> has concluded.
The inquiry laid the blame for the attack on the Russian president, saying he was \u201cmorally responsible\u201d for the death of Dawn Sturgess<\/a>, an innocent bystander who died after being exposed to the chemical weapon after it was left in a discarded perfume bottle in Amesbury,<\/a> Wiltshire, in July 2018.
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Vladimir Putin is risking a fresh row with Donald Trump at a crucial time in diplomacy after saying Russia is ready to provide \u201cuninterrupted shipments\u201d of fuel to India.
His provocative comments came during a visit to Delhi, where he signed cooperation agreements with prime minister Narendra Modi on Friday<\/a>.
A joint statement from the two leaders after the meeting said their ties were \u201cresilient to external pressure\u201d.
After the talks, Putin and Modi announced that India and Russia have finalised an economic cooperation program until 2030, which will help diversify mutual businesses to boost annual trade to $100 billion by 2030.
They also emphasised strong energy ties.
Energy has been in focus for Donald Trump, who has warned India and other countries not to buy Moscow\u2019s oil to better pressure Russia into ending the war in Ukraine.
Vladimir Putin said on Friday that Russia was “ready to continue uninterrupted fuel shipments” to India despite Trump\u2019s insistence against buying Moscow\u2019s oil.
On energy, Putin also spoke of a “flagship” nuclear plant being built in India that he said Russia would help with.
The United States wants Europe to take over the majority of NATO’s conventional defence capabilities, from intelligence to missiles, by 2027, Pentagon officials told diplomats in Washington this week.
The message, recounted by five sources familiar with the discussion, including a US official, was conveyed this week in a meeting of Pentagon staff overseeing NATO policy and several European delegations.
In the meeting, Pentagon officials indicated that Washington was not yet satisfied with the strides Europe has made to boost its defence capabilities since Russia’s expanded invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
The US officials told their counterparts that if Europe does not meet the 2027 deadline, the US may stop participating in some NATO defence coordination mechanisms, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss private conversations.
Some officials on Capitol Hill are aware of and concerned about the Pentagon’s message to the Europeans, one US official said.
Belgium\u2019s leader will meet with his German counterpart on Friday to discuss sticking points on accessing frozen Russian assets for Ukraine.
As it stands, the European Commission is looking to find 90 billion euros ($105 billion) for Ukraine through frozen assets or international borrowing. They say they could cover two thirds of Ukraine\u2019s spending for the next two years this way.
The plan has come unstuck with opposition from Belgium, where most of the assets are held. Belgium worries that it could be left to pay everything back on its own unless leaders agree to split the responsibility.
The European Commission hopes to find agreement between members by December 18. In the meantime, Russia will be trying to unsettle Europe\u2019s nerve.
Donald Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner is working ‘very actively’ on the peace settlement in Ukraine, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said on Friday.
He said Kushner\u2019s presence at the talks has added a ‘systemic nature.’ His inclusion in the Ukraine talks was a US initiative, Ushakov added.
Vladimir Putin met Kushner and special envoy Steve Wikoff at the Kremlin for five hours on 2 December.
Ushakov said the meeting was constructive, but that much work still needs to be done.
A Ukrainian drone attack caused a fire at Russia’s Azov Sea port of Temryuk, local authorities said on Friday.
Temryuk handles liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), oil products and petrochemicals, as well as grain and other bulk food commodities.
The Russian Defence Ministry said air defence systems intercepted and destroyed 41 Ukrainian drones overnight, including one over the Krasnodar region where Temryuk is located.
A mother cries by the coffin of her son Oleh Borovyk, a Ukrainian serviceman who was killed in fighting with Russian forces near Pokrovsk, during his funeral in Boiarka, Ukraine.
Emmanuel Macron risked sparking a fresh diplomatic row between Europe and Washington<\/a> after claiming that Donald Trump may \u201cbetray\u201d Ukraine during peace negotiations, according to a leaked transcript of a conference call of European leaders.
The French president told Kyiv\u2019s allies that Washington could attempt to force Ukraine to give up territory \u201cwithout clarity on security guarantees\u201d, German newspaper Der Spiegel reported.
Details of the call – which involved Macron along with German chancellor Friedrich Merz and Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte – were published by the German newspaper on Thursday.
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