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‘I’m going to do Russia, whose economy is failing, a very big favor,’ new US president posts to social media as he paves the way for negotiations with the Kremlin to put an end to war in Ukraine.
US President Donald Trump on Thursday placed the ball in Moscow’s court as he prepares negotiations aimed at ending the almost three-year war in Ukraine.
On his own social media platform, Truth Social, the newly inaugurated president threatened even tougher sanctions on Russia’s embattled economy unless Moscow agreed to Washington’s as-yet unspecified proposals.
At the World Economic Forum, the president calls for energy independence from Moscow and discusses Trump’s proposed oil boost, encourages cooperation from non-European countries to help end the war.
On Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed global financial leaders at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, calling for an end to European reliance on Russian energy, remarking on US President Donald Trump’s plan to increase American oil exports, and encouraging more cooperation from around the world to weaken Russia’s war footing as the full-scale invasion of Ukraine approaches the three-year mark.
With the notable exceptions of Slovakia, Hungary, and the breakaway Moldovan republic of Transnistria, European countries have signaled recently that they are willing and able to find other energy sources after the flow of Russian natural gas transiting through Ukraine came to a halt at the beginning of this year.
Tired of the Kremlin’s indifference and obfuscation, ordinary Russians launch initiative to rescue missing persons and other war-weary relatives in Kursk region.
Residents of Russia’s Kursk region have made coordinated social media posts appealing for help to find relatives trapped by a Ukrainian border offensive launched last August, Russian media reported Wednesday.
Kyiv seized dozens of small towns and villages in the incursion, more than two years into Russia’s full-scale military assault on Ukraine.
