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Russia asks US to stop pursuit of fleeing oil tanker, claims authority - NYT
The tanker was en route from Iran to Venezuela when the Coast Guard attempted to apprehend it. The Coast Guard has been chasing the tanker for almost two weeks.
US intelligence indicates Putin's war aims in Ukraine are unchanged
Russia warns US moves on Venezuela could have ‘fatal’ consequences
Russia claims to capture Pokrovsk ahead of Witkoff visit for peace talks
Russia's Putin meets US envoy Witkoff amid tensions between US, Russia, Interfax says
Trump, who warned that he would impose sanctions on Russia if Moscow does not agree to a ceasefire with Ukraine before Friday, had said earlier that Witkoff might be traveling to Moscow this week.
Netanyahu working to resolve tensions, mediate between US, Russia - report
Tensions have risen between Russia and the US in recent days due to Trump's decision to send nuclear submarines to the area over the weekend.
US halts some missile shipments to Ukraine over low stockpiles, sources say
The Pentagon said it was providing President Donald Trump with options to continue military aid to Ukraine in line with the goal of ending Russia's war there.
Trump remains frustrated at being unable to end Gaza, Ukraine-Russia wars - WSJ
Trump admitted to a group of private donors at his Florida club last week that finding a solution for the Israel-Hamas conflict had been a challenge as “they’d been fighting for a thousand years.”
Ex-IDF intel. officials: Balanced Israeli combativeness can cause Russia to reduce hostility
INSS gives recipe for calibrated confrontation with Moscow to reduce support for Iran, Houthis, Hamas without leading to conflagration
Trump envoy in Russia for talks with Putin about Ukraine
US envoy Steve Witkoff met with Russian President Putin in St. Petersburg to discuss a Ukraine peace deal and a potential Trump-Putin summit.
Kremlin says it is hard to imagine talks with US on new nuclear arms reduction treaty
The bleak assessment from Moscow comes amid the disintegration of the tangle of arms control treaties which sought to slow the arms race and reduce the risk of nuclear war.
Cautious of Trump's Russian pivot, Israel debates sharing intel, NBC reports
Some officials in other allied countries played down the idea that Trump's policies on Russia would disrupt intelligence cooperation that dates back decades.
US deports Russian man wanted for armed robbery, Moscow says
Koshelev, it said, had been part of a group that had stolen $1.5 million at gunpoint from a courier at St Petersburg's Pulkovo airport in 2014.
Israeli national handed two year sentence in US for shipping aviation parts to Russia
Gal Haimovich, a 49-year-old Israeli national, was sentenced for using his international freight forwarding company to violate US export control laws.
