Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that Western elites are attempting to sabotage renewed Russia-US talks. He emphasized that some forces aim to compromise the progress made in Riyadh, where delegations agreed to work on Ukraine’s conflict and economic cooperation.

Russian and U.S. diplomats will meet in Istanbul on Thursday for talks aimed at restoring their respective diplomatic missions, seen as a step towards ending the war in Ukraine, both sides said on Wednesday.

But with no seat at the table in Riyadh, Ukraine was left to watch from afar as the US and Russia appeared to set out their initial positions. The announcement that Washington and Moscow would ...

Last week, high-level talks between Russia and the United States took place in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The talks focused on strategies to end the ongoing war in Ukraine and restore severely strained dip

The US and Russia met on Tuesday for the first time in Saudi Arabia to begin negotiations on the future of Ukraine. The two sides agreed to set up teams that will hammer out an agreement. Ukrainian and European leaders are not happy about being left out.

Putin's spokesperson pointed media to comments from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov last week in which he said that “the deployment of troops ... is, of course, unacceptable to us.”