By Yousef Saba and Gleb Bryanski RIYADH/MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russian President Vladimir Putin's special envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Wednesday during a visit to Saudi Arabia that he expected the war in Ukraine to end within a year.

The Russian President indicated that Russia is open for a deal for the Ukrainian troops in the two cities to surrender and said that Moscow was ready for a media visit to those areas., World News, Tim

Russian President Vladimir Putin is now believed to be more dug in than ever, according to a recent intelligence assessment.

President Trump refuses to waste time on an unproductive summit with Vladimir Putin, citing the need for a guaranteed Ukraine peace agreement before any meeting occurs.

President Donald Trump says his plan for a swift meeting with Russian leader Vladimir Putin is on hold because he doesn’t want it to be a “waste of time.”

Vladimir Putin has announced a successful test of a Poseidon nuclear-powered submarine torpedo which experts have warned is capable of causing a “radioactive tsunami”. The Russian president said the test of the weapon had been a “great success”,

A senior Ukrainian commander in the 14th Deep Strike Regiment, one of the units leading the country’s drone campaign, said its unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) were flying distances of up to 2000 km (1250 miles) as they seek to find holes in Russian air defences.