But nearly six weeks after Vladimir Putin was invited to an historic summit with Donald Trump in Alaska, the U.S. intercepted Russian bombers and fighter jets that flew near the state this week in an apparent test of America’s defense systems.

Russian warplanes have been detected flying close to Alaska, forcing the US to dispatch a number of fighter jets - it follows a spate of intrusions into NATO airspace

U.S. allies called an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council after a series of incidents raised alarm about growing Russian threats to Europe.

The outgoing head of Britain's MI6 spy agency says Russia's Vladimir Putin is "stringing us along," with no interest in a Ukraine peace deal.

Russian President Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set out in the last arms control treaty between the two powers once it expires next year if the U.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said the next generation of the country's political leadership must be veterans of the Ukraine war. Putin made the comments during a meeting with different factions of the Russian State Duma and spoke of the participation of Ukraine war veterans in elections.

At a meeting with Turkish President Erdogan, President Trump answered a range of questions from reporters on the ongoing conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, a looming government shutdown, the shooting at a Dallas ICE facility and the possible resumption of fighter jet sales to Turkey.

Mr. Putin said Russia didn’t want to provoke a strategic arms race with the United States, but his offer is limited in scope.

U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Mike Waltz warns Vladimir Putin that Trump's push for NATO allies to shoot down intruding Russian aircraft is serious.

President Donald Trump’s abrupt shift on the war in Ukraine this week came amid fresh frustration at Russian President Vladimir Putin, and was intended to apply more pressure on Moscow to come to the negotiating table,