President Trump has not committed to adding American forces to the mix in Ukraine. No one has detailed publicly what form defenses would take, but there are several options.
President Trump is expected to press Ukraine to make concessions to end the war. President Volodymyr Zelensky will likely ask what, if anything, Russia is offering in return.
Los papeles, que describen la secuencia de los acontecimientos e incluyen los números de teléfono de varios funcionarios, fueron encontrados el viernes y enviados a NPR por un huésped del hotel.
Para Europa, la preocupación más profunda es mantener a Estados Unidos del lado de la OTAN.
In a letter posted online by President Trump, the first lady wrote to Russia’s leader of the “duty” to safeguard children, but didn’t mention Ukraine.
Plentiful supply and weak demand has helped bring down fuel prices, which President Trump has often cited as a measure of his success.
The leaders of Germany, France, Britain and Italy are among those who flew to Washington, D.C. on short notice to attend meetings with President Trump and President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine.
Ukrainian officials said the deadly strikes were a further sign that Russia had no intention of halting hostilities.
In Alaska, the Russian leader proposed that Ukraine hand over the remainder of the Donbas region to Moscow to stop the fighting.
If we bedeck him more, maybe he’ll bedevil us less.
The meeting was a stark reminder of a simple truth: That the real barrier between President Trump and peace in Ukraine is Vladimir Putin.
Ahead of a meeting with President Trump, President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine noted that Russia’s 2014 seizure of Ukrainian land became “a springboard for a new attack.”
Tras la cumbre del viernes, el presidente Putin volvió a insinuar que la guerra tiene que ver con el estatus disminuido de Rusia desde la caída de la Unión Soviética.
European leaders are joining a trip to Washington to make sure the trans-Atlantic alliance remains intact.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, an envoy for President Trump, suggested that a peace deal was still distant.
The Alaska summit between the U.S. and Russian leaders showcased their mutual animosity for the former president.
The papers, laying out the sequence of events and including the phone numbers of several officials, were found around 9 a.m. on Friday and sent to NPR by a guest of the hotel.
The president of Ukraine and his European allies are to visit the White House on Monday, after President Trump backed Russia’s plan to end the war.
The traditionally Russian-speaking area is at the heart of what the Russian president calls the “root causes” of the war, and taking it over is near the top of his list of territorial and political demands.
After the Trump-Putin summit, European leaders said they would accompany President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine to the White House on Monday.
President Trump offered security guarantees to deter future Russian aggression. But the offer was vague, prompting Kyiv to seek clarity.
Evacuees at a shelter in eastern Ukraine reacted angrily to talk that land that has long been theirs could be given to Russia in exchange for peace.
Speaking after Friday’s summit, President Putin again implied that the war is all about Russia’s diminished status since the fall of the Soviet Union.
President Trump’s break from a strategy agreed to with European allies could give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia an edge as talks to end the fighting continue.
The net effect of the Alaska summit was to give President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia a free pass to continue his war against his neighbor indefinitely without further penalty, pending talks on a broader peace deal.
Aunque no se anunció ningún acuerdo, el líder ruso obtuvo algunas victorias y se marchó en buenos términos con el presidente estadounidense.
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine will go to Washington on Monday seeking answers.
The U.S. president’s latest statements are a reversal of much of what he seemed to have agreed to with European allies this past week.
President Trump offered Sean Hannity few details of what he had discussed with President Vladimir V. Putin about Russia’s war in Ukraine, but talked up their personal connection.
President Trump came home empty-handed.
With no strategy of their own for ending the war, the continent’s leaders are anxious that President Trump will force Kyiv to accept terms that favor Russia too much.
President Trump’s failure to reach an accord on Ukraine only made his warm welcome for the Russian leader more striking.
While no deal was announced, the Russian leader secured some wins and left on good terms with the U.S. president.
Few East-West meetings have ended with less clarity than Friday’s Trump-Putin summit in Alaska. What was clear, though, was that Vladimir Putin was well satisfied.
President Trump gave President Vladimir Putin a warm public reception, effectively ending his diplomatic isolation over the past three years for his invasion of Ukraine. But Mr. Putin did not agree to stop the war.
President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia said they had made “progress” during their nearly three-hour meeting, but did not reach a cease-fire deal on the war in Ukraine.
For more than 20 years, Western leaders have played right into Putin’s hands — and given one a shake.
President Trump clapped for his guest, Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, as he stepped foot in the United States for the first time in a decade.
The summit in Alaska between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has unleashed a wave of propaganda and disinformation from Russian state media and online conspiracy theorists.
President Trump arrived in Alaska on Friday for a meeting with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, hoping to broker a cease-fire in the Ukraine war.
Una confrontación abrupta, un estancamiento o un primer paso hacia un alto al fuego son posibles en la cumbre en Alaska, mientras los dos líderes navegan por temas espinosos como el territorio de Ucrania.
La cumbre entre Trump y Putin se celebra en una antigua colonia rusa que Estados Unidos compró por 7,2 millones de dólares en 1867. ¿Cómo se fraguó el acuerdo y por qué su legado es importante?
The Ukrainian leader sounded off on social media before the summit in Anchorage from which he was excluded.
President Trump referred to the authoritarian ruler of Belarus, who has been isolated by the West for years, “the highly respected President.”
The two leaders are bringing some old-world approaches to bear on a 21st-century conflict.
President Trump has long admired President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia. Their meeting in Alaska will be at least their seventh face-to-face encounter.
Normalized economic ties between Russia and the West may be a long way off, but there’s global interest in what’s said about sanctions and tariffs.
President Trump is meeting in Alaska with President Vladimir Putin of Russia to discuss an end to the war.
Plus, your Friday news quiz.
A sudden feud, an impasse or a first step toward a cease-fire are all possible at the summit in Alaska as the two leaders navigate thorny issues such as Ukraine’s territory and NATO expansion.
Ukrainians who fled the war and settled in Alaska, where President Trump is set to meet with Russia’s leader, Vladimir Putin, on Friday, are keeping their expectations for the talks low.
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.
The leaders of the United States and Russia will hold talks at an American military base in Alaska and are expected to hold a news conference afterward.
Russia’s president has long insisted that Ukraine will be his. But his obsession may cost Russia more than he has bargained for.
The talks on Friday in Alaska pull the Russian leader out of diplomatic isolation from the West, and Ukrainian and European leaders fear it gives him an opening to sway the American president.
El líder estadounidense ha acordado una reunión con el presidente ruso en Alaska, el viernes, para discutir el fin de la guerra en Ucrania.
The Kremlin signaled that apart from Ukraine, it was also interested in discussing other subjects with the U.S., like economic links and nuclear arms. At the same time, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky met with the U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer in a show of unity.
Después de que Trump dijera que Moscú proponía un intercambio territorial para el alto al fuego, Volodímir Zelenski se reunió con diversos líderes mundiales para mantenerse en las negociaciones.
Over recent months, the Kremlin has been trying to move the diplomatic focus away from Ukraine to bilateral issues, such as trade and strategic stability.
Plus, a C.I.A. secret up for auction.
As he heads to Alaska for talks with President Trump, the Russian leader projects confidence that his edge on the battlefield will secure a peace deal on his terms. It’s the result of a yearslong re-engineering of his country’s military and economy.
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, was not invited to the Trump-Putin summit in Anchorage, but 1,000 Ukrainian refugees in Alaska will be watching with trepidation.
The Justice Department said the yacht, Amadea, was worth at least $300 million when it was seized in 2022 from a Russian oligarch. It’s unlikely to sell for that price.
One of the year’s most towering achievements is a documentary about Russian independent journalism being wiped out in real time.
El presidente Trump ha evitado en gran medida criticar con severidad a Vladimir Putin personalmente, a pesar de sus recientes quejas sobre la intransigencia rusa para poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania.
Once a vague proposal for a territorial swap gained clarity, a worried President Volodymyr Zelensky worked to rally allies before Friday’s Trump-Putin summit.
President Trump wants to be seen as a peacemaker, but the meeting comes with enormous stakes.
President Trump struck a remarkably unconcerned tone when asked to address the horrors of war, raising questions about whether he has the leverage to convince Vladimir V. Putin to agree to end the invasion in Ukraine.
Ukrainians are heroes. It’s time that Trump started acting like it.
Hay algo que al presidente de Rusia le importa más que el dinero.
En 1945, el mapa de Europa se redibujó en Yalta sin la participación de los países afectados. Ucrania y Europa temen que la situación se repita en Alaska.
President Trump has largely held back from harsh criticism of Vladimir V. Putin personally, despite recent complaints about Russian intransigence in ending the war in Ukraine.
Plus, why that old song suddenly has a new music video.
In 1945, the map of Europe was redrawn in Yalta without input from the affected countries. Ukraine and Europe fear a repeat in Alaska.
There is something Putin cares about more than money.
Chancellor Friedrich Merz and several allies will host the president for a video call, the latest in a summer-long effort to hold ranks in supporting Ukraine.
The American and Russian presidents will meet face to face at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Alaska on Friday, according to a White House official.
The meeting is a bad idea, but there’s an opportunity for Trump to punish Putin’s thievery.
Federal officials are scrambling to assess the damage and address flaws in a sprawling, heavily used computer system long known to have vulnerabilities.
Readers criticize the president’s order to send in federal troops. Also: The Trump-Putin summit in Alaska; fake science papers; defining masculinity.
El presidente de EE. UU. insistió en que estaba dispuesto a abandonar las conversaciones y dejar que las dos partes siguieran luchando si no se llegaba a un acuerdo.
The U.S. president is pushing to end the war in Ukraine, but analysts say the Russian leader could turn a hastily planned meeting to his advantage.
Russian forces have moved several miles into Ukrainian-held territory in the east, threatening to outflank Ukraine’s positions.
El presidente de EE. UU. ha amenazado con imponer más aranceles a Rusia y a sus socios comerciales y ha impuesto otros más severos a India y Brasil para tratar de influir en asuntos bélicos y políticos.
Ucrania teme que el Kremlin intente convencer al presidente Trump en las conversaciones ruso-estadounidenses en Alaska de que Ucrania, y no Rusia, es el obstáculo para la paz.
President Trump set a low bar for his summit with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, saying he was ready to walk away if no deal was forthcoming.
The president has threatened more tariffs on Russia and its trading partners and has imposed harsh ones on India and Brazil to try to sway matters of war and politics.
The tanker, the Eagle S, was detained last December.
Ukraine fears that the Kremlin will try to convince President Trump at U.S.-Russian talks in Alaska that Ukraine, not Russia, is the obstacle to peace.
Desde que el presidente Donald Trump retomó el poder, muchos ucranianos temen que se alcance un acuerdo de paz sin ellos.
Para el presidente de Rusia, Vladimir Putin, es una oportunidad no solo de poner fin a la guerra en Ucrania según sus términos, sino también de dividir la alianza de seguridad occidental.
Warm relations between Alaskans and Russians began to shift with the rise of Vladimir Putin and the invasion of Ukraine. In Alaska, feelings on the two leaders’ meeting seemed mixed.
Showing an uncanny ability to adapt to circumstances, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has turned himself into a key engineer of President Vladimir V. Putin’s autocratic machine.
Dmitri N. Kozak, who has said privately that the invasion was a mistake, has lost power to another senior Putin ally, Sergei V. Kiriyenko, who has embraced the military action.
For three years, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has handled the political aspects of the war in Ukraine, rising among a cadre of skilled managers who oversee the sprawling Russian state.
Since President Trump retook office, many Ukrainians have worried a peace accord would be struck without them.
For President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, it is an opportunity not just to end the Ukraine war on his terms but to split apart the Western security alliance.
President Trump did not clarify which territories could be swapped, and Ukrainian officials appeared uncertain about what he meant.
Ukraine and its allies are concerned that President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin will do a deal without them and then impose it on Kyiv.
The Ukrainian president’s blunt comments risk angering Mr. Trump, who has made a peace deal between Ukraine and Russia one of his signature foreign policy goals.
President Trump’s new front in the trade war against India focuses on a pair of enormous refineries with extraordinary owners.
Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, might be preparing his young daughter, Kim Ju-ae, to become his successor. Choe Sang-Hun, the Seoul bureau chief for The New York Times, analyzed North Korean state propaganda to find out.
The American leader has agreed to a meeting with the Russian president in Alaska next Friday to discuss ending the war in Ukraine.
Mr. Trump also suggested that a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine would include “some swapping of territories,” signaling that the U.S. may join Russia in trying to compel Ukraine to cede land.
President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia may be seeking to build support among countries that have backed Moscow or remained neutral in the conflict.
The collapse of the Indian prime minister’s high-stakes personal efforts to transform India’s ties with the world’s two superpowers has exposed the limits of India’s leverage.
President Trump appeared eager to project confidence that an agreement could be reached in a long-intractable conflict.
“Here on the ground, we don’t feel any real changes from all these high-level meetings and statements,” a soldier said.
The Russian economy was slowing even before President Trump’s latest threats. But the Kremlin has enough money to keep fighting in Ukraine.
Analistas, y personas que lo conocen, han dicho que el objetivo primordial de Putin es un acuerdo de paz que logre sus objetivos geopolíticos, y no necesariamente conquistar una determinada cantidad de territorio en el campo de batalla.
Despite longing for an end to Russia’s invasion, few believe that a meeting between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin is likely to deliver a peace plan they can accept.
The Russian leader sees direct talks with Trump as essential to achieving his ultimate aims in Ukraine.
A summit between President Trump and President Vladimir V. Putin would come as the United States has urged Russia to agree to a cease-fire in Ukraine or face new sanctions.
Prosecuting torture is a legal obligation, not a diplomatic nicety or something that can be negotiated.
As the president pursues his goals on Russia and trade, America’s relationship with an important partner in Asia could end up as collateral damage.
Las reuniones incluirían solo a los tres mandatarios, y a ningún homólogo europeo.
President Trump has been stymied for months in his efforts to find a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine, after more than three years of war.
Facing a 50 percent tariff as a penalty for buying Russian oil, India says it is “unfortunate” that it is being punished for acting in its national interest.
The envoy, Steve Witkoff, is making his fifth visit this year. He has managed to secure some prisoner exchanges but made no clear progress so far on ending the war in Ukraine.
El país dice que dejará de cumplir un tratado expirado que prohibía el despliegue de misiles de alcance intermedio.
President Trump accused India of aiding Moscow’s war on Ukraine by purchasing Russian energy, derailing trade talks between India and the United States.
Russia’s president has lost faith in the very idea of reaching agreements with the United States.
The United States has accused Russia of violating the pact, which expired in 2019, for more than a decade.
The Rybachiy base, which hosts nuclear-powered submarines from Russia’s Pacific Fleet, lies in a cove about 80 miles from the powerful earthquake that struck near the Kamchatka peninsula last week.
President Trump has given an ultimatum to President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia to end the war in Ukraine or face U.S. sanctions.
Staff members have been evacuated from the area, a statement from the local nature reserve said, adding that the volcano was too far from towns to pose a danger to people.
She became suspicious when she discovered large deposits in the bank account of Aldrich Ames, whose betrayal cost the lives of at least eight double agents.
The eruption of the Krasheninnikov volcano on Sunday in Russia’s Far East came after a series of seismic events this past week on the Kamchatka peninsula.
The introduction of a state-approved messaging app has raised fears that Russia could be preparing to block WhatsApp and Telegram.
Sus recientes acciones forman parte de un patrón en el que el presidente de EE. UU. ha mostrado una progresiva intolerancia hacia quien no se pliega a su voluntad.
The president had been on something of a winning streak. But when faced with facts and foes that wouldn’t bend to his will, he responded with impatience and disproportionate intensity.
El presidente describió la decisión como una medida disuasoria motivada por las amenazas de un antiguo dirigente ruso. No se sabe con certeza si algún submarino cambió realmente de posición.
Trump allies have fixated on a purported message about Hillary Clinton and Russia. John H. Durham, the special counsel, found evidence that it was likely a fake assembled by Russian spies.
In a social media post, the president described the move as a deterrent prompted by threats by a former Russian leader. It is unclear if any submarines did actually change position.
The Russian president didn’t directly respond to President Trump’s ultimatum that Moscow halt its offensive by the end of next week or face financial penalties.
He was a socialist reporter turned magnate who earned a fortune in the 1990s. He defended press freedoms even after the industry became beleaguered and unprofitable.
Lo que siguió al sismo de magnitud 8,8. Además: el origen inesperado de las papas y más para el cierre de la semana.
“I wanted something decent,” said a woman at a shelter near Ukraine’s border with Russia. “But this is how it turned out.”
“We’re going to put sanctions,” the president said, even before a deadline he had given Russia this week to engage in cease-fire negotiations had passed.
An annex to a report by the special counsel John H. Durham was the latest in a series of disclosures about the Russia inquiry, as the Trump team seeks to distract from the Jeffrey Epstein files.
El sismo de esta semana en Rusia está entre los 10 más fuertes de los que hay registro; la ola que generó fue pequeña en muchos lugares.
The measure faces long odds given past Republican opposition to sending additional assistance to Kyiv, but it comes as President Trump has signaled a new openness to finding ways to back the nation.
Solo en la última semana, tres nuevos países han dicho que están dispuestos a otorgar el reconocimiento a un Estado palestino.
President Trump upended trade negotiations with India by making the purchase of crude oil a sticking point.
The former Russian president Dmitri Medvedev offers President Trump a useful foil to criticize without rebuking Vladimir Putin, one analyst said.
Russia launched a barrage of drones and missiles on the Ukrainian capital early Thursday, killing several people and injuring dozens.