The Kremlin says a settlement in Ukraine can't be facilitated by a drop in global oil prices as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine has responded to Russia's demand to revoke NATO's 2008 Bucharest Summit promise regarding Ukraine's future membership as a condition for ending the war. Source: European Pravda,

President Trump is urging Saudi Arabia and OPEC to increase oil output to pressure Russia into ending the war in Ukraine, while also threatening additional sanctions against Russia.

Speaking a day after Trump’s inauguration, Ukraine’s president told world leaders at Davos that Europe needs to remain united and “learn how to take care of itself.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to hold a phone call with U.S. President Donald Trump and Moscow is waiting for word from Washington that it is ready too, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

The president says he wants Opec and Saudi Arabia to bring down the price of oil which he says is fuelling the Russia-Ukraine war.

The attack came as South Korea’s military said North Korea is preparing to send more troops to join Russia’s fight against Ukraine, despite Pyongyang suffering a high rate of losses among its existing deployment of 11,000 and seeing some of its soldiers captured.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed admiration for former U.S. President Donald Trump, calling him “smart” and “pragmatic” in handling economic matters, particularly oil prices. Putin also suggested that the Ukraine crisis might have been avoided if Trump had won the 2020 election.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to talk to US counterpart Donald Trump but is waiting for signals from Washington first, a Kremlin spokesman said Friday. But hours later, Russian Foreign

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