President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday oversaw a test of Russia's nuclear forces on land, sea and air to rehearse their readiness and command structure. The test included the launch of a land-based "Yars" intercontinental ballistic missile from a cosmodrome,

There are no plans for President Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin to meet "in the immediate future," a White House official said on Tuesday.

President Trump said last week that he and Russian President Vladimir Putin would meet in Budapest, Hungary, though he did not say when.

The Polish foreign minister said he could not guarantee that Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane would not be forced to land.

Former Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has a long record of issuing aggressive statements, often framing Western actions as deliberate provocations and justifying Russian military responses.

After he was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Trump essentially pressed pause — believing both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace, the official said.

I want to emphasize, planned — nuclear forces command and control exercise,” Putin said in a video conference with the Kremlin’s top military

The postponement of Donald Trump’s much-anticipated summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest had seemed to confirm all his critics’ fears. At the White House on Tuesday, the president explained that he did not want a “wasted meeting”.