Russian President Vladimir Putin has been open to talks on Ukraine from the very beginning, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Friday. This is how he commented on Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s words that Putin is now “much softer and more open to dialogue than in the past”. ...
US president Joe Biden warned the risk of nuclear “Armageddon” was at its highest since the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 and said he was trying to decipher Vladimir Putin’s “off-ramp” to avoid further escalation. Speaking at a fundraiser in New York on Thursday night, Biden said Russia’s president was ...