Days before President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump were to meet in Alaska, Russian forces breached lines in a series of infiltrations in Ukraine's Donetsk. Here's a closer look at where things stand as Russia claims about 20 per cent of Ukrainian territory.

Ukraine and Russia have been negotiating prisoner exchanges through a secret communication channel between their military intelligence agencies, established at the start of the full-scale war. Source: The Wall Street Journal Details: The publication revealed that the largest wave of prisoner exchanges in Europe since the Second World War became possible by establishing a secret communication channel between Ukrainian and Russian military intelligence.

US President Donald Trump is threatening tariffs on other countries that buy Russian oil, in an attempt to pressure Moscow to end the war in Ukraine. But the United States and Europe themselves are still doing billions of dollars in trade with Russia.

Russian propaganda mind Vladimir Soloyov warned Trump not to give ultimatums to Putin ahead of Alaska meeting.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held calls on Saturday with his Turkish and Hungarian counterparts, the Russian foreign ministry said, hours after a summit between the U.S. and Russian presidents yielded no deal on ending the war in Ukraine.

The Modi government will hope that Washington and Moscow will arrive at a final agreement on how to deal with Ukraine and Trump will discard the 25 per cent additional tariff. At the minimum, Delhi would want Trump to postpone the deadline of August 27 for implementing the additional tariffs against India.

Eight pages of official government papers were left behind on printers at the four-star Hotel Captain Cook on Friday. The hotel is located 20 minutes from the Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday signed a decree that could allow foreign investors, including top U.S. oil major Exxon Mobil , to regain shares in the Sakhalin-1 oil and gas project.

The Trump-Putin summit will take place in a former Russian colony that the United States bought for $7.2 million in 1867. Here’s how the deal came together and why its legacy matters.

Volodymyr Zelensky will visit the White House tomorrow for a one-on-one which Donald Trump believes could pave the way for a three-way meeting with Vladimir Putin.