new video loaded: How Zelensky Made Progress With Trump By Michael Schwirtz, Claire Hogan and Nikolay Nikolov•August 19, 2025 President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine had a remarkably different White House visit on Monday than the ambush he walked into six months ago. Michael Schwirtz, the global intelligence correspondent for The New York Times, explains how … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (local time) said that if US President Donald Trump had been in power in 2022, the Russia-Ukraine conflict would likely never have happened — a claim Trump has made several times, blaming his predecessor, Joe Biden, for the war. In a joint press conference after nearly three hours of … Read more
new video loaded: Two Decades of Putin Playing the West Recent episodes in Opinion Opinion Video features innovative video journalism commentary — argued essays, Op-Ed videos, documentaries, and fact-based explanation of current affairs. The videos are produced by both outside video makers and The Times’s Opinion Video team. Opinion Video features innovative video journalism commentary … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin. File. | Photo Credit: AP Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday (August 15, 2025) praised India’s “well-deserved authority” in global affairs, highlighting its active role in addressing key international issues. In his Independence Day messages to President Droupadi Murmu and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Mr. Putin also underlined Russia’s commitment to … Read more
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin hold talks in Alaska on Friday, with the U.S. president’s hopes of sealing a ceasefire agreement on Ukraine uncertain but with a last gasp offer from Putin of a possible nuclear deal that could help both men save face. The meeting of the Russian and U.S. leaders at a Cold … Read more
Donald Trump expressed deep unhappiness at Russia’s weekend bombing of Ukraine. File | Photo Credit: Reuters U.S. President Donald Trump on Sunday (May 25, 2025) expressed deep unhappiness at Russia’s weekend bombing of Ukraine, saying of Russian President Vladimir Putin, “I’m not happy with Putin.” “I don’t know what’s wrong with him. What the hell … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin currently has no plans to travel to Istanbul for peace talks with Ukraine, the Kremlin said on Thursday, but the Russian delegation is there and ready to meet the Ukrainian team. It was Putin’s initiative to hold what would be the first direct peace talks in more than three years in … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had “productive” talks with Xi Jinping in Moscow on Thursday, addressing the Chinese leader as his “dear friend”. “Our talks with the President of the People’s Republic of China took place in a traditionally warm, friendly and constructive atmosphere and were very substantive and productive,” Putin told reporters at … Read more
Russian President Vladimir Putin‘s order for a three-day truce with Ukraine took effect Thursday, a move the Kremlin said would test Kyiv’s readiness for peace but that Ukraine has slammed as a farce.It was not clear whether either side was observing the ceasefire, even with world leaders — including China’s Xi Jinping, Brazil’s Luiz Inacio … Read more
Exactly 25 years ago on May 7, an obscure ex-KGB colonel Vladimir Putin — with little public exposure as deputy mayor of St Petersburg — took the oath of the highest office in the post-Communist Russia. A quarter century later, Putin, 72, still remains the most popular politician of Russia, as was evident by last … Read more