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Kremlin: If Trump manages to annex Greenland, he’ll go down in world history.

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Trump refers to Armenia and Azerbaijan as β€œPutin’s territory.”

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Putin dedicates the first Security Council meeting of 2026 to Russia’s role in building a multipolar world order.

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Putin: Russia is prepared to allocate $1 billion from its frozen assets in the U.S. to Trump’s β€œBoard of Peace,” and to direct the remaining funds toward postwar reconstruction of territories affected by the fighting between Russia and Ukraine.

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Putin: Denmark has always brutally mistreated Greenland as a colony.

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Kremlin (Ushakov): Putin reaffirmed to Witkoff and Kushner that without resolving the territorial issue, there can be no peace settlement.

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Fyodor Lukyanov: International law is in crisis. In a β€œmight makes right” world, major players will sit down to talk only after they have reached the limits of their capabilities.

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❗️Kremlin: Trump’s methods don’t align with our approach to a multipolar world. Russia must not be among those who bend over for him.

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If Ukraine refuses to cede territory now, Russia will take it by force later β€” on worse terms for Kiev, says Moscow’s envoy to the OSCE, Dmitry Polyanskiy.

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Unlike Western hegemonists, Russia proposes a world order based on the principles of sovereignty and indivisible security for all, says Putin’s spy chief Sergey Naryshkin.

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Spymaster Naryshkin: Russia’s army is advancing, the economy remains resilient, and society stands united behind Putin and the troops.

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Medvedev: Trump’s β€œGolden Dome” missile-defense project is highly provocative and violates the principle of inseparability between offensive and defensive strategic arms enshrined in the New START Treaty.

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Kremlin: Venezuela’s leadership has indicated it does not plan to cut joint projects or ties with Russia.

Context: This is important because, as Reuters reports: β€œU.S. officials have said publicly they want the interim president to sever relations with close international allies like Iran, China and Russia, including expelling their diplomats and advisers from Venezuela.”


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β€œI’m opposed to negotiations.”
Chechen leader Kadyrov says Russia must finish the job in Ukraine.

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Putin’s top aide Ushakov disputes Rubio and Witkoff’s claims that Ukraine peace talks are down to just one unresolved issue of territory.

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Levada Center poll: 76% of Russians back military actions in Ukraine; 59% believe Russia should intensify strikes, including the use of new weapons systems.

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Amid U.S. preparations for possible new strikes on Iran, President Putin met with Tehran’s top security chief, Ali Larijani, at the Kremlin.

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Lavrov: Russia will complete the liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya, ensure the restoration of linguistic, cultural, and religious rights for Russians in the rest of Ukraine, and eliminate Kiev’s ability to pose a military threat to Moscow.

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BRICS will continue building alternatives to every tool the U.S. uses for economic coercion, says Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov.

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Russia is ready to discuss placing Ukraine under temporary UN control to oversee elections and bring to power a legitimate government with which a comprehensive peace treaty could be signed, says Deputy FM Mikhail Galuzin.

President Putin first publicly floated this idea in March 2025.

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Rubio in Munich: Russia cannot achieve its original war aims in Ukraine and has been forced to narrow them down to just one objective β€” taking the rest of the Donetsk region.

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