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Fox News
3 days ago
- Business
- Fox News
From Washington: President Trump's Growing Impatience With Putin
This week, Russia launched its most significant aerial attack on Ukraine yet, killing 12 and injuring dozens more. A large bipartisan coalition of U.S. senators has proposed sanction legislation against Russia, with President Trump weighing putting more pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin. Former U.S. Ambassador to NATO Kurt Volker provides his insights on President Trump's approach to dealing with Putin. Later, he discusses the effectiveness of sanctions and the potential for negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. Later, George Washington University Law Professor and FOX News Contributor Jonathan Turley provides his analysis of the Trump administration's legal battle with Harvard University and the President's pause on student visas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit
Reuters
08-05-2025
- Politics
- Reuters
Trump taking harder approach towards Russia, says US former adviser
KYIV, May 8 (Reuters) - President Donald Trump is adopting a tougher approach towards Russia to secure the ceasefire he promised when he took office after becoming "really aligned" with Ukraine, the U.S. leader's former special representative said on Thursday. Kurt Volker, Trump's Ukraine adviser in his first term and former U.S. Ambassador to the NATO military alliance, told Reuters the U.S. leader had started his second term with a challenge to Russian President Vladimir Putin to secure peace either "the easy way or the hard way". Now, after 100 days of his presidency have passed and with Putin showing little willingness to end the war against Ukraine, Trump is increasingly taking the "hard way", Volker said on the sidelines of a security conference in Kyiv. "I think it is in Ukraine's interest to have an end to the fighting, and so now that the U.S. and Ukraine are really aligned, it exposes how Putin is simply not willing to end the war," said Volker, who resigned as his adviser in 2019 after being named in a whistleblower complaint about the Trump administration. "Exactly," he responded when asked whether Trump was now taking the hard route, rather than the easy one, adding Congress should strengthen the U.S. leader's hand by approving secondary sanctions against major entities in Russia. After a disastrous meeting between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in February, the two have gone a long way to patching things up. Their two countries signed a minerals deal in Washington last month which hands the United States preferential access to new Ukrainian minerals deals. That for Trump, Volker said, was "politically important" because it allowed him to show his backers that Ukraine was paying its way rather than using U.S. taxpayers' money. While Ukraine hopes the deal, to be voted on in parliament later on Thursday, will unlock the delivery of new U.S. weapons, at this stage, Trump is reluctant to talk about "the military side" while he tries to cajole Putin to end the fighting. But that does not mean military aid will not be forthcoming. "So what it does do, from a security perspective, is it gives the U.S. a stake in Ukraine's prosperity, economic development, security, its survival," said Volker. "It doesn't spell out what kind of obligations or commitments the U.S. would make toward Ukraine's security. But that doesn't prevent anything either."
Bloomberg
25-04-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
Trump Pushes Russia-Ukraine Peace Deal
"Balance of Power: Late Edition" focuses on the intersection of politics and global business. On today's show, Kurt Volker, Former US Ambassador to NATO and Former US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, discusses what the United States is asking for from both Ukraine and Russia in attempts to create a peace deal. Governor Tate Reeves (R) Mississippi voices his support for President Trump's tariffs stating Mississippi will be a "net winner" because the state has invested in manufacturing. Mary Lovely, Senior Fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, shares her thoughts the current relationship between the Trump Administration and China. (Source: Bloomberg)
Bloomberg
25-04-2025
- Politics
- Bloomberg
US Should Hold Line on Russia: Volker
Kurt Volker, Former US Ambassador to NATO and Former US Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations, discusses what the United States is asking for from both Ukraine and Russia in attempts to create a peace deal and weighs whether or not the concessions are more than what each country would agree to. He speaks with Kailey Leinz and Joe Mathieu on the late edition of Bloomberg's "Balance of Power." (Source: Bloomberg)
Yahoo
18-02-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
General Staff: Russia has lost 861,090 troops in Ukraine since Feb. 24, 2022
Russia has lost 861,090 troops in Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion on Feb. 24, 2022, the General Staff of Ukraine's Armed Forces reported on Feb. 18. This number includes 1,170 casualties Russian forces suffered just over the past day. According to the , Russia has also lost 10,101 tanks, 21,075 armored fighting vehicles, 37,679 vehicles and fuel tanks, 23,275 artillery systems, 1,285 multiple launch rocket systems, 1,068 air defense systems, 370 airplanes, 331 helicopters, 25,586 drones, 28 ships and boats, and one submarine. Read also: Kurt Volker's guide to US-Russia Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia We've been working hard to bring you independent, locally-sourced news from Ukraine. Consider supporting the Kyiv Independent.
