By Mary Ilyushina, The Washington Post Article contains links, including the following (in color): "Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony in Moscow on June 22 marking the 85th anniversary of the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AP)." Russia’s war in Ukraine is stalling — on the battlefield and in the corridors of diplomacy. For months, high-ranking Russian officials insisted that a path to ending the war in Ukraine — largely on Moscow’s maximalist terms — had been decided at a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump last August in Anchorage. Only Ukraine’s intransigence stood as an obstacle. But that narrative has unraveled — perhaps because the only way to get the United States to help broker a new deal is admitting there never was a previous one.
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By Mary Ilyushina, The Washington Post/ Article contains links, including the following (in color): "Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a wreath-laying ceremony in Moscow on June 22 marking the 85th anniversary of the Nazi German invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II. (Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool/AP)." Russia’s war in Ukraine is stalling — on the battlefield and in the corridors of diplomacy./ For months, high-ranking Russian officials insisted that a path to ending the war in Ukraine — largely on Moscow’s maximalist terms — had been decided at a meeting between President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump last August in Anchorage. Only Ukraine’s intransigence stood as an obstacle./ But that narrative has unraveled — perhaps because the only way to get the United States to help broker a new deal is admitting there never was a previous one./ In recent days, three top Russian officials accused the White House of not ho...
Putin Faces Increased Pressure as Moscow Is Again Attacked by Drones
The Russian authorities said 419 drones were shot down across Russia, including in the capital, and in Crimea. A photograph posted on the Moscow region’s official social media channel on Tuesday, said to show a damaged private house in the town of Yegoryevsk. Credit... Andrei Vorobyov, via Telegram, via Reuters By Paul Sonne, Ivan Nechepurenko and John Yoon The New York Times June 30, 2026 Updated 12:06 p.m. ET President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia faced a fresh round of pressure on Tuesday as Ukraine launched another attack on the Russian capital, continued to disrupt Russian fuel supplies and pressed its campaign to cut off Crimea, the peninsula Moscow annexed from Ukraine in 2014. Moscow’s mayor, Sergei Sobyanin, reported several waves of drones, starting Monday night, less than two weeks after Ukraine launched the biggest drone assault on the Russian capital since the start of the war. The mayor said on Telegram that Russian air defenses had shot down more than 60 drones on ap...