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United News of India
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- United News of India
Russian President Vladmir Putin holds discussion with top govt brass, aides, ahead of Alaska summit
Moscow, Aug 14 (UNI) Russian President Vladmir Putin, ahead of his meeting with US President Donald Trump on Friday in Alaska, held discussions with the top brass of his administration and other top government aides, said Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov. According to RIA Novosti, the meeting was attended by members of the delegation to the upcoming summit: Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Defence Minister Andrei Belousov, head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund Kirill Dmitriev, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov, and presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. Addressing the attendees, Putin said that he wanted to brief all in the meeting about the peace agreements reached with Washington so far, and would announce further updates post his meeting with Trump, adding that the US President's government 'is making vigorous efforts to end the fighting.' Describing the ending of the war as being necessary for creating 'conditions of long-lasting peace' between Moscow, Washington, and the EU, the Russian President did not rule out negotiations regarding control over strategic offensive weapons with the US, in the future round of talks. Peskov further told reporters that both leaders 'are ready to talk and will discuss the most difficult issues," to create a framework for reaching mutual agreements and understandings on a variety of different issues, as both Moscow and Washington are working to better their bilateral ties. He took a dig at Europe during his briefing and said 'Such mutual political will is in short supply now. We see that we probably will not get an adequate response, for example, from the Europeans," in a reference to the EU's open declaration of continued support for Ukraine, including the bloc's desire for greater militarisation. UNI ANV SSP
NDTV
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- NDTV
Trump Says He "Could" Talk To Putin About Russia Hacking US Court System
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday acknowledged reports that Russian actors may have breached the federal court's electronic filing system, saying he "could" bring up the issue with their leader, Vladimir Putin, during their upcoming meeting in Alaska. "I guess I could, are you surprised?" Trump said during a press event at the Kennedy Center in Washington, DC, when asked if he would raise the matter with Putin. "They hack in, that's what they do. They're good at it, we're good at it, we're actually better at it." #WATCH | On reports of Russia suspected to be behind hack of US federal court filing system and if would bring it up when he meets President Putin later this week, US President Donald Trump says, "I guess I hack in, that's what they do. They are good at it. We are… — ANI (@ANI) August 13, 2025 Trump and the Russian President are scheduled to meet on August 15 at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, in what the White House describes as a "listening exercise" to gauge Moscow's willingness to end the war in Ukraine. On Tuesday, The New York Times reported that hackers linked to Russia "compromised" sealed court records, including sensitive documents related to national security cases. Some targeted files involved mid-level criminal cases in New York City and other jurisdictions, with several concerning individuals of Russian and Eastern European origin. The hack is believed to be part of a years-long campaign, the paper said. The breach affected the judiciary's Case Management/Electronic Case Files (CM/ECF) system, which stores both public and sealed documents, as well as the PACER system used for public access. Officials fear the intrusion could expose witnesses in criminal trials, including those involving Latin American drug cartels. According to Politico, investigators believe the attackers exploited long-standing vulnerabilities first identified in 2020. The Administrative Office of the US Courts confirmed it is taking "additional steps to strengthen protections for sensitive case documents" and working with affected courts to mitigate the damage. An internal memo obtained by the NYT warned that "persistent and sophisticated cyber threat actors have recently compromised sealed records" and called the matter "urgent." This was Trump's first public acknowledgement of the hack. In the past, he has been reluctant to publicly confront Russia over cyber operations. In 2018, he cast doubt on US intelligence findings that Moscow interfered in the 2016 presidential election.
NDTV
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- NDTV
Russia Claims New Ukraine Gains Ahead Of Putin-Trump Summit
Russia said on Thursday its troops had captured two new settlements in eastern Ukraine on the eve of a summit between President Vladimir Putin and US counterpart Donald Trump. The defence ministry said Russian forces captured the village of Iskra and the small town of Shcherbynivka in Ukraine's Donetsk region, which the Kremlin claimed to have annexed in September 2022. Shcherbynivka is near the mining town of Toretsk, captured by Russian troops in February, and Kostiantynivka -- one of the last large urban areas in the Donetsk region still held by Ukraine. The Russian army has accelerated its gains in recent months. Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky on Tuesday conceded that Russian forces had advanced by up to 10 kilometres (six miles) in a narrow section of the front line near the coal mining town of Dobropillia. The Russian army's gains on Tuesday were the biggest for a single 24-hour period in over a year, according to an AFP analysis of data from the US-based Institute for the Study of War (ISW). In southern Russia, 13 people, including two children, were injured Thursday in a Ukrainian drone attack that damaged around 10 residential buildings in Rostov-on-Don, regional governor Yuri Sliusar said on Telegram. The Russian military claimed to have shot down 268 Ukrainian drones and four glide bombs in 24 hours. In Ukraine, the air force said Russia had fired two missiles and 45 drones at Ukrainian territory overnight. Two people were injured in the northern Sumy region and one in the Kherson region, according to local authorities. Putin and Trump are to meet on Friday in Alaska for a summit which the Kremlin said would focus on "the resolution of the Ukraine crisis".
