Russian President Vladimir Putin hailed on Saturday what he called the complete failure of an offensive by Ukrainian forces into Russia's Kursk region after they were expelled from the last village Moscow said they had been holding.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed that his country has regained control of Kursk, the border region where Ukraine launched a surprise offensive last year, though Ukraine’s army says fighting continues.

Russia is ready to hold peace talks with Ukraine “without preconditions”, President Vladimir Putin told US envoy Steve Witkoff at a meeting on Friday, the Kremlin said Saturday. “During yesterday’s talks with Trump’s envoy Witkoff,

President Donald Trump is expressing skepticism that a peace deal is in reach, only a day after saying Kyiv and Moscow were “very close to a deal.”

President Donald Trump said Saturday that he is beginning to question whether Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to end the Russia-Ukraine war, a warning shot to the Russian leader that came just after Trump met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Rome.

Like many American leaders before him, US President Donald Trump is finding out that getting through to Russian President Vladimir Putin is not as easy as he might have thought.

President Donald Trump took aim at Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday in a Truth Social post about the ongoing war in Ukraine, saying that the Kremlin leader may need to "be dealt with differently.