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August 20, 2025, 05:14 PM - 5 min read
Widely used as a foreign policy tool and a substitute for war, sanctions or economic warfare work in an indirect, complicated manner and hardly ever pressure nations into behavioural change.
Read moreAugust 18, 2025, 08:05 AM - 2 min read
Ahead of his Monday meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, US President Donald Trump claimed that Zelensky has the ability to end the war with Russia “if he wants to.”
Read moreJuly 31, 2025, 03:48 PM - 2 min read
The strikes come days after the United States president issued a 10-day ultimatum for Moscow to end the war in Ukraine.
Read moreJune 27, 2025, 02:55 PM - 7 min read
Trump has long been adamant that NATO members should meet their 2014 commitment to spend 2% of their GDP on defence, and Rutte recognised that.
Read moreMarch 10, 2025, 02:04 PM - 3 min read
The US President said he wants to settle the issue by having a ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine to save “human lives” on the battlefield. He hopes to achieve some “good results” from the upcoming US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia.
Read moreFebruary 27, 2025, 07:20 PM - 6 min read
After President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine three years ago, Russia restricted the flow of natural gas to weaken Western support for Kyiv. In response, the 27 EU nations weaned themselves off a dependency on Russian energy in record time. Now, they face the challenge of ending their reliance on the United States to provide security.
Read moreFebruary 24, 2025, 02:53 PM - 8 min read
The 90-minute phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on February 6, 2025, was the official initiation of return to diplomacy to end the Russia-Ukraine conflict with ‘immediacy’.
Read moreFebruary 24, 2025, 01:03 PM - 3 min read
The Trump administration has reversed his predecessor Joe Biden's attempt to “isolate Russia on the world stage” and opened direct negotiations suspended in 2022.
Read moreFebruary 20, 2025, 04:42 PM - 3 min read
Trump called Zelensky a “dictator without elections” and accused him of tricking Washington into funnelling aid into “a war that couldn’t be won.”
Read moreFebruary 19, 2025, 05:58 PM - 3 min read
Zelenskyy made the comments shortly before he was expected to meet with Keith Kellogg, the US special envoy for Ukraine and Russia, who arrived in Kyiv on Wednesday.
Read moreFebruary 19, 2025, 05:13 PM - 2 min read
The UAE, which diplomatically recognised Israel in 2020 during President Donald Trump's first term, also has been key in mediating prisoner swaps between Russia and Ukraine.
Read moreFebruary 18, 2025, 04:26 PM - 8 min read
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Ukraine will “never accept” any decisions in talks without its participation to end Russia’s three-year war in the country.
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