In a video-link call broadcast on Russian state television, Putin said the Moscow-Beijing relationship was an important stabilizing factor at a time of growing global turbulence.

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump claims Putin ‘kept his word’ despite massive attack as peace talks begin - Zelensky says Russia's massive attack on Kyiv and other cities has impacted his team's prepa

Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has arrived in Moscow for his second time in less than four months for talks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized his readiness to help the country rebuild its war-battered economy.

U.S., Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are meeting in the United Arab Emirates, but Russia continues to pummel Ukraine and has not softened demands that Kyiv calls unacceptable.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

When Jeffrey Epstein offered up a young woman as a dinner companion to Prince Andrew, he assured the British Royal that she was “Russian, beautiful and trustworthy”.

Vladimir Putin is “not winning” in Ukraine despite Donald Trump’s claims to the contrary, according to a former US envoy. General Keith Kellogg, the US president’s Ukraine envoy up until last month, told BBC Radio 4′s Today programme that the Russian leader is “afraid” right now.

A day before Russian, Ukrainian and U.S. teams meet to talk peace, Putin's forces pounded Ukraine's energy infrastructure with dozens of drones and missiles.