Putin hails Trump as a 'smart and experienced person' who can bring peace to Ukraine

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Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking in Astana; President-elect Donald Trump speaking at a at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill.
"President Trump, a smart and experienced person, will come up with a solution," Russian President Vladimir Putin said of President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday.

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Russia fired a new type of missile at Ukraine. It's fast, can carry nukes, and could hit far into Europe.

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Firefighters at the site of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on November 21, 2024.
Firefighters at the site of a Russian missile strike in Dnipro, Ukraine, on November 21, 2024.

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Russia needed armor so badly that its biggest film studio donated 36 Soviet-era tanks that were used as props

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T-55 and T-54 tanks are seen in a black-and-white photo taken in Hungary. Mosfilm's director general, Karen Shakhnazarov, wears sunglasses as he attends a meeting with Vladimir Putin.
Mosfilm's director general said the movie studio had donated 36 tanks, including the aging T-55, to Russia's defense ministry.

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Wounded Russian troops had their medical payouts cut back in one swift move from the Kremlin

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Russian leader Vladimir Putin visits servicemen who were wounded during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, at a military hospital in Moscow in May 2022.
Russian leader Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Wednesday limiting a $30,000 payout to injured soldiers based on the severity of their wounds.

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Inside Trump and Putin's first phone call since the election

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President-elect Donald Trump speaking to his supporters in West Palm Beach, Florida; Russian President Vladimir Putin speaking during a plenary session of the Valdai Club.
President-elect Donald Trump told Russian President Vladimir Putin not to escalate the war in Ukraine during a phone call on Thursday, The Washington Post reported.

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Putin's weak response to Ukraine's advance on Russian soil appears to be rooted in a persistent fatal flaw

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Russian President Vladimir Putin wears a suit and sits on a white chair behind a desk and in front of a flag.
Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow in September 2024.

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The Kremlin says Trump sent Putin COVID tests during the pandemic, but denies subsequent calls

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US President Donald Trump (R) meets Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) on the first day of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan, on June 28, 2019.
Trump sent COVID tests to Putin at the height of the pandemic, according to Bob Woodward's forthcoming book.

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Trump-Putin relationship: New book details secret COVID tests, up to 7 phone calls since 2021

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A Trump campaign spokesman vigorously denied the claims in the new book, calling the author "demented and deranged."

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The plot to topple Putin

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A group of people stand between two stone columns.
Ever since the invasion of Ukraine, a loose and sometimes fractious cohort of Russian exiles — many of them based in Warsaw — has come to believe that Russia can be liberated only through violence and sabotage.

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A longtime Russian ally says it's frozen its participation in Putin's NATO 'at all levels' after a year of snubs

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Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (L) during a CSTO welcoming ceremony in Yerevan, Armenia, on November 23, 2022.

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