A Kremlin spokesman praised U.S. foreign policy under President Trump, saying it "largely coincides" with Russia's vision.

President Trump and Ukrainian President Zelenskyy will meet at the White House today. NBC News' Garrett Haake and Keir Simmons have the latest reporting. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer and foreign affairs journalist Christina Ruffini join José Díaz-Balart to discuss the potential outcome of the meeting.

Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Friday it had foiled an attempt by Ukraine's military intelligence service to assasinate Tikhon Shevkunov, a senior priest in Russia's Orthodox Church.

Russian and U.S. teams held six hours of talks in Turkey on Thursday to try to restore normal functioning of their embassies, and Vladimir Putin said initial contacts with Donald Trump's new administration had inspired hope.

The war in Ukraine will be a focal point of the meeting between the US president and UK prime minister in Washington later.

The head of Myanmar’s military government is traveling to Russia, a major ally of the Southeast Asian nation shunned by much of the West for overthrowing a democratically elected government and subsequent brutal repression.

Russia's FSB security service said on Friday it had arrested two church figures suspected of plotting to kill a priest close to President Vladimir Putin on the orders of a Ukrainian spy agency.

The vast majority of Ukrainians want the freedom they have, want to be independent of Russia, and not to be living under Putin's dictatorship.

Wednesday on the RealClearPolitics podcast, Andrew Walworth chats with James Robbins from the Institute of World Politics about how the Trump administration seeks to remake U.S. relations with Russia.

"We are primarily interested in understanding the essence of President Trump's new line," a former Russian envoy told Newsweek.

China and Russia “cannot be moved away” from one another, Chinese leader Xi Jinping told his counterpart Vladimir Putin Monday, in their first phone call since US President Donald Trump upended American foreign policy with a sweeping pivot toward Moscow as he pushes for peace in Ukraine.

The pause that Hegseth ordered is meant to remain in effect while negotiations to end Russia’s war on Ukraine are ongoing, the Washington Post reported.