The Latest Breaking News from Vladimir Putin

Here are the key events on day 1,276 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

The Federal Reserve chairman’s remarks come as Trump has long demanded an interest rate cuts

Russia Friday ruled out an immediate meeting with Volodymyr Zelensky, as diplomatic tension escalated with the Ukrainian president and US mediation efforts appeared to stumble.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday that the security guarantees agreement for Ukraine will consist of two layers: strengthening Ukraine’s army and commitments from the US and Europe aimed at deterring Russia in the event of future aggression.

I’ve been accused of ‘anti-Russia narratives’ but Russia has many stories – including resistance against tyranny, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr

Violetta Prigozhina, 85, says she warned her son not to defy Putin’s authority before he was killed in a plane crash

Hungary’s foreign minister claims missile strike on energy infrastructure is ‘another attempt to drag us into war’

Back-to-back summits in Alaska and Washington with the Russian and Ukrainian leaders, respectively, have done little to clarify how U.S. President Donald Trump intends to engineer an end to the conflict in Ukraine.

In an interview, EU diplomacy chief slammed calls for Ukraine to cede land, warning they fall into a trap set by Russian premier Vladimir Putin. She accused Moscow of blocking peace, criticised Trump’s Alaska meeting with Putin, urged tougher sanctions, and called for lasting security guarantees.