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The words of Donald Trump that he promised Vladimir Putin to "bomb Moscow" during his first presidential term have prompted a comment from Dmitri Peskov. The journalist asked Vladimir Putin's press secretary whether the above statement was made, if so, when and how the Kremlin treats such information leaks. This is reported by Dialog.UA.
The Kremlin said on Thursday that Russia did not think peace talks on Ukraine have stalled despite Donald Trump's remarks about Russian President Vladimir Putin and Washington's resumption of some weapons to Ukraine.
Ukrainian drone and shelling attacks killed three people in Russia on Friday, while Russian bombardments on east Ukraine forced the evacuation of a maternity centre in Kharkiv and wounded nine.
The death of a Russian Cabinet minister in a field near his posh home in a Moscow suburb has fueled wild speculation about how he died and what it means.
The Kremlin expressed its continued desire for peaceful negotiations with Ukraine, dismissing concerns that talks have stalled. Moscow awaits Kyiv's readiness to begin a third round of discussions, which initially started in May in Istanbul.
The Kremlin's grip on the Russian elite appears to be closing ever tighter as two major figures of Russian business and security structures were detained in the past few days. Konstantin Strukov, a billionaire running a gold mining empire,
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On July 1, former Deputy Defense Minister Timur Ivanov was convicted on charges of embezzlement and money laundering and sentenced to 13 years in prison in a high-profile case that exposed rampant military corruption widely blamed for Moscow’s military setbacks in Ukraine.
Russia’s transport minister allegedly shot himself in the head on Monday just hours after President Vladimir Putin dismissed him from his post, investigators said.
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Worldcrunch on MSNHubris In The Kremlin: Vladimir Putin Is Underestimating The West AgainVladimir Putin is convinced his country is strong enough to secure total victory in Ukraine. But the Russian leader is forgetting two crucial things about the current geographic dynamic.