Two months after a smiling Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shook hands at a military base in Alaska in what looked like the start of a U.S.-Russia rapprochement, a top Russian diplomat has raised doubts that the "spirit of Alaska" is still alive.

EADaily, October 10th, 2025. In the near future at Russia will have a new weapon, which was mentioned earlier, its tests are successful. This was announced today, October 10, by Russian President Vladimir Putin at a press conference following his visit to Tajikistan.

Now it seems Trump has given up on his efforts to woo Putin to the negotiation table. Speaking at joint press conference with Keir Starmer from the UK, Trump said: “He let me do

US President Donald Trump said he thought the war in Ukraine would be the easiest conflict to resolve “because of my relationship with President Putin."

"If any troops appear there, especially now while fighting is ongoing, we assume that they will be legitimate targets," Putin says as the U.S. and Europe plan for a post-war Ukraine.

President Joe Biden’s tough criticism this week of Israel’s government follows calls to rein in the country’s assault on Gaza. Global support for Israel is souring because of its “indiscriminate bombing,” he claimed at a fundraising event.

Donald Trump claimed that his Russian counterpart let him down during the process of solving the Ukraine war. Keir Starmer also criticised Putin and said that he showed his "true face" with the biggest attack on Ukraine.

Trump announced, during his joint press conference with Putin that "great progress" had been made, but conceded, "there's no deal until there's a deal" on the ceasefire. The president added that he would still rate the meeting as a 10 out of 10 because he and Putin had got along so well, and said he was backing off Russian sanctions for now.

President Donald Trump gave a worrying response when a reporter asked him if he still trusted Vladimir Putin during a press conference with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. "I will let you know in about a month from now", replied Trump.