MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin on Sunday proposed direct talks with Ukraine on May 15 in Istanbul. Following are key quotes translated into English by Reuters. “It was not Russia that broke off negotiations in 2022. It was Kyiv. Nevertheless, we are proposing that Kyiv resume direct negotiations without any preconditions.” “Despite everything, we …
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PARIS (Reuters) – France is consulting with partners on how to potentially support Ukraine in its struggle with Russia with troops, French President Emmanuel Macron told newspaper Le Parisien on Saturday, without elaborating on what such a presence could include. “We are working on the presence and strategic footprint of the partner countries. There have …
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(This May 9 story has been corrected to clarify that Iran’s statement came from its permanent mission to the United Nations, not the United States, in paragraph 8) By Jonathan Landay, Jonathan Saul and David Ljunggren WASHINGTON/LONDON (Reuters) – Iran is preparing to deliver in the near future launchers for short-range ballistic missiles that the …
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KYIV (Reuters) – The German government will stop publishing details of military aid to Ukraine, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Saturday during a visit to Kyiv. Sources with knowledge of the matter had earlier told Reuters that public information about the delivery of weapons systems to Ukraine was to be reduced to achieve “strategic ambiguity” …
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NEW DELHI (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday that India and Pakistan had agreed to a “full and immediate ceasefire” after a fourth day of strikes and counter-strikes against each other’s military installations. This is what global leaders have said about the latest development between the nuclear-armed neighbours: U.S. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP “After …
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By Andrew Mills and Jonathan Landay (Reuters) -A Qatari mission has begun searching for the remains of U.S. hostages killed by Islamic State in Syria a decade ago, two sources briefed on the mission said, reviving a longstanding effort to recover their bodies. Islamic State, which controlled swathes of Syria and Iraq at the peak …
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(Reuters) – Turkey is ready to undertake the duty to observe a possible ceasefire in Ukraine, its foreign minister said during a “coalition of the willing” call with Kyiv’s partners on Saturday, a Turkish foreign ministry source said. The leaders of Britain, France, Germany, Poland -the so-called “coalition of the willing”- and Ukraine have met …
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MOSCOW (Reuters) – The Kremlin accused European countries on Saturday of making contradictory and confrontational statements, after European leaders backed a U.S. plan for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine and threatened Russia with “massive” sanctions if it failed to comply. “We hear many contradictory statements from Europe. They are generally confrontational in nature rather than …
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By Alina Smutko and Herbert Villarraga ZAPORIZHZHIA REGION, Ukraine (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin has declared a three-day pause in fighting against Ukraine, but for bloodied Ukrainian soldiers limping into a field hospital, their wounds testified that the ceasefire was not being respected. One soldier, who gave his name as Stanislav, sat in the …
BERLIN (Reuters) – The new German foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, departed for Israel on Saturday for a Middle East trip in which “critical discussions” are expected, he said when leaving Berlin. “In both of our democracies, critical discussions about the policies of one’s own government and friendly nations are part of this,” Wadephul said on …
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