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The Sun
4 days ago
- Politics
- The Sun
Kremlin confirms details of Putin-Trump talks in Alaska including JOINT press conference that may decide Ukraine's fate
KREMLIN has confirmed key details of Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin's crunch talks in Alaska. The programme for the talks between the two leaders has been agreed, Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov said. 1 Ushakov said it will be a one-on-one meeting where "sensitive matters" will be discussed. Russian state news agency TASS revealed that the meeting will start at 11.30am Alaskan time (8.30pm UK). The crunch talks will be followed by a joint press conference by both leaders. .
The Star
03-08-2025
- Politics
- The Star
Factbox-Who is Dmitry Medvedev, the Russian war hawk who got under Trump's skin?
FILE PHOTO: Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of Russia's Security Council and Chairman of the United Russia political party, delivers a speech during the party's congress in Moscow, Russia, December 17, 2023. Sputnik/Yekaterina Shtukina/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY./File Photo (Reuters) -Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has become embroiled in a tense back-and-forth on social media that prompted U.S. President Donald Trump to announce he had ordered the re-positioning of two U.S. nuclear submarines. Who is Medvedev, what is his track record and how influential is he? PRESIDENT WHO BRIEFLY RAISED HOPES IN THE WEST Medvedev was elected Russian president in 2008 when Vladimir Putin, having served two terms, was barred from standing again under the law in force at that time. Medvedev ran the Kremlin for four years, with Putin as his prime minister but widely assumed by analysts in Russia and the West to be still calling the shots, before the two swapped places after the 2012 election - a political manoeuvre that provoked opposition protests. Medvedev, the son of two university professors, had studied law and worked for a time in the private sector. Short in height and quietly spoken, he was described by contemporaries as cultured and intelligent. As president, he was seen initially in the West as a potential moderniser and reformer, prepared to work to thaw relations with the United States. In 2009 he signed the New START nuclear arms reduction treaty with President Barack Obama. But Medvedev's presidency also saw Russia fight a brief war with its neighbour Georgia in 2008, and he failed to achieve his stated goals of tackling pervasive corruption, improving the rule of law in Russia, strengthening the role of civil society and rebalancing the economy to reduce its over-reliance on oil and gas production. AFTER THE KREMLIN Medvedev served as Putin's prime minister for eight years in a period in which tensions with the West escalated anew, particularly over Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea from Ukraine. But his political fortunes took a dive when he was removed in January 2020 and replaced by Mikhail Mishustin, who has held the post ever since. Medvedev was shunted into a new role as deputy chairman of the Security Council, a powerful body that includes the heads of Russia's intelligence services. WAR CHEERLEADER After Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Medvedev carved out a new role for himself as an arch-hawk and full-throated champion of the war, hurling aggressive rhetoric at Kyiv and the West and warning repeatedly of the risk of a nuclear "apocalypse". In May 2024 he said it would be a "fatal mistake" on the part of the West to think that Russia was not ready to use tactical nuclear weapons against Ukraine. He also spoke of the potential to strike unnamed hostile countries with strategic nuclear weapons. His statements - including personal attacks on foreign leaders - were frequently designed to shock, insult and provoke. He referred to Ukrainians as "cockroaches", in language Kyiv condemned as openly genocidal, and called President Volodymyr Zelenskiy a criminal, a drug addict, a louse, a rat and a freak. In January 2023, he accused Japan's prime minister of shameful subservience to the United States and suggested he should ritually disembowel himself. Russian opposition figures have dismissed Medvedev's outpourings as sad, impotent rants. However, some Western diplomats say they give a flavour of the thinking in Kremlin policy-making circles. Until now, they have rarely provoked a direct response from Western leaders. SPAT WITH TRUMP That changed last month when Trump rebuked Medvedev and accused him of throwing around the "N" word after the Russian criticised U.S. air strikes on Iran and said "a number of countries" were ready to supply Iran with nuclear warheads. When Trump imposed a deadline on Moscow to end the war in Ukraine or face further sanctions, including on buyers of its exports, Medvedev accused him of playing a "game of ultimatums" and moving a step closer to war between Russia and the U.S. Trump retorted: "Tell Medvedev, the failed former President of Russia, who thinks he's still President, to watch his words. He's entering very dangerous territory!" Medvedev waded in again last Thursday, saying Trump's "nervous reaction" showed Russia was on the right course and referring again to Moscow's nuclear capabilities. Trump delivered his statement the following day on posting U.S. nuclear submarines in "the appropriate regions", since when Medvedev has not posted again. (Reporting by Mark Trevelyan in London; editing by Mark Heinrich)
Scottish Sun
13-07-2025
- Scottish Sun
Russia's most wanted serial killer, who ‘raped & murdered 100 women' could be dead as cops find body with gold teeth
He has evaded police for 12 years after officers questioned then released him due to 'lack of evidence' EVIL KILLER Russia's most wanted serial killer, who 'raped & murdered 100 women' could be dead as cops find body with gold teeth Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) RUSSIA'S most wanted serial killer who "raped and murdered 100 women" could be dead as cops find a body that could belong to him. Police are investigating whether a corpse with a mouthful of gold teeth found in a quarry belongs to truck driver Valery Andreev, the country's "most wanted" killer. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Sign up 7 Truck driver Orsk Maniac is feared to have raped and murdered more than 100 women before vanishing Credit: East2West 7 Victim Ekaterina Morozova, 19, killed in 2012 Credit: East2West 7 Cops have found a corpse with gold teeth Credit: East2West Andreev is feared to have raped and murdered more than 100 women, but has never faced trial. Known as the Orsk Maniac after his home city, he has evaded police for 12 years after officers questioned then released him due to 'lack of evidence' at the time in what is now seen as a catastrophic blunder. Later, police established "proof" of eight cases where women were raped and murdered by Andreev who - if he is still alive - would now be 68. But he is also suspected of being responsible for abducting, raping and killing more than 100 women listed as 'missing' between 2006 and 2016 in Orenburg region in southwest Russia, close to the border with Kazakhstan, according to law enforcement. Read more on World KREMLIN FURY Russia accuses Trump of 'sponsoring terrorist scum' by sending weapons to Kyiv If true, this would make him Russia's worst-ever serial killer, exceeding ex-policeman Mikhail Popkov, aka The Werewolf, who has been convicted of 81 murders in Siberia - and confessed to an additional two. A decaying male body discovered near Akkermanovka is undergoing tests, reported Shot media outlet. The man was wearing a T-shirt bearing the words 'Collection of 99 International Games' and dark trousers. All his teeth were gold - matching wanted descriptions of the suspected mass killer. The cause of death is as yet unclear. There have been frequent 'sightings' of Andreev after police offered a £15,000 reward for information. Nato jets scrambled as Putin launches one of war's biggest attacks in Ukraine His truck was tracked containing a stash of condoms, women's underwear, and hair clips. Among his suspected murder victims are Ekaterina Morozova, who was 19 when she disappeared in 2012. Another is Irina Nikolskaya, aged 25 when she went missing in 2012. Two other suspected victims were named as Olga Zhuravleva and Arzhan Urkumbayeva. Andreev has been on the run since 2013 when he was put on Russia's federal wanted list. He was described as a married father of two, considered a 'peaceful and obedient family man'. Locals said he was 'polite, well-mannered and respectable'. He was a lorry driver for at least 15 years. Earlier, police urged anyone seeing the suspected serial killer to contact them immediately. 7 Victim Arzhan Urkumbayeva¿, 22, killed in 2010. Credit: East2West 7 Victim Irina Nikolskaya, 25, killed in 2012 Credit: East2West 7 Victim Irina Nikolskaya, 25, killed in 2012. Credit: East2West
New York Post
12-07-2025
- Business
- New York Post
Putin backs ‘zero enrichment' for Iran's nuclear capabilities: Report
Russian strongman Vladimir Putin backs a nuclear deal with Iran in which the country is unable to enrich uranium. Putin privately communicated his stance to President Trump and Iranian officials, sources told Axios. Iran has long insisted it should retain the ability to enrich uranium, while both the US and Israel have demanded the Islamic Republic completely abandon its enrichment capabilities — the biggest hurdle in striking a deal. Advertisement 'Putin would support zero enrichment. He encouraged the Iranians to work towards that in order to make negotiations with the Americans more favorable. The Iranians said they won't consider it,' one European official with direct knowledge of the issue told Axios. 3 Putin has reportedly told both the US and Iran in private that a deal should not allow Tehran to enrich uranium. MIKHAIL METZEL/SPUTNIK/KREMLIN/POOL/EPA/Shutterstock Iran rejected such limitations. Advertisement 'In any negotiated solution, the rights of the Iranian people on the nuclear issue, including the right to enrichment, must be respected,' Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi told diplomats in Tehran Saturday. 'We will not have any agreement in which enrichment is not included.' 3 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said Saturday Iran has a right to enrichment. via REUTERS Russia walks a diplomatic tightrope in the Middle East, maintaining warm relations with Israel even as it deepens military and economic cooperation with Iran. Advertisement The reports stand in stark contrast to the views the Kremlin has adopted publicly as Iran's main backer on the nuclear issue. No later than this week, Moscow's top diplomat said Russia was ready to refill Iran's depleted uranium stocks. And last month, Putin said he had sent 200 Russian experts to work at an Iranian nuclear plant. 3 Tehran and Washington had been engaged in talks since April, but those were disrupted by the attacks. Getty Images Tehran and Washington had been engaged in talks since April, but those efforts were disrupted when Israel launched a surprise June 13 attack on Iran's nuclear facilities, just two days before a planned meeting in Oman, and 61 days after US President Donald Trump set a 60-day deadline for talks. Advertisement Araghchi meanwhile, says Tehran is open to new talks on a deal. 'We are examining its timing, its location, its form, its ingredients, the assurances it requires' he said. With wires
News18
10-07-2025
- Politics
- News18
SBU Nabs "Chinese Spies," $10 Mn Russian Buk Blown Up, "Rare" US Patriots to Enter Ukraine War?
Ukrainian authorities detained two Chinese nationals suspected of attempting to steal classified military technology related to Neptune cruise missile system. According to Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), the two individuals, a father and son, were allegedly trying to smuggle Ukrainian navy missile technology out of the war-torn countryThe father, who lives in China, had travelled to Ukraine to coordinate his son's "espionage activities," as per SBU authorities. The two were "attempting to illegally export secret documentation on the Ukrainian RK-360MC Neptune missile system to China," the SBU said it was "verifying" the case, saying 'If Chinese citizens are involved, we will safeguard Chinese citizens' legitimate rights and interests in accordance with the law.' n18oc_world n18oc_crux0:00 INTRODUCTION2:16 CHINESE 'SPIES' TRIED TO STEAL NEPTUNE MISSILE TECH?3:18 TRUMP TO CONSIDER SENDING 'VERY RARE' PATRIOT MISSILES TO KYIV4:52 KREMLIN NOT SURE ABOUT VERACITY OF TRUMP'S LEAKED AUDIO 5:48 KYIV'S DRONES & ROBOTS CAPTURE RUSSIAN TROOPS IN HISTORIC FEAT7:04 TRUMP SEEKS CHANGES TO RUSSIA SANCTIONS BILL
