Vladimir Putin’s first trip outside the former Soviet Union since the start of the Ukraine war was supposed to project power. Instead the Russian president appears to have been left red-faced at a summit in ...
When Russia and Ukraine reached an agreement on Friday to unblock Ukrainian grain exports, Turkey’s president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, played the role of benevolent statesman. Seated next to the United Nations secretary general in an Ottoman ...
The timing and location of Russia’s latest attacks shows that the southern Ukrainian city is more important than ever to the Russian leader, for symbolic and strategic reasons. -Analysis- When Moscow and Kyiv signed their ...