#Vladimir Putin

The skyline of Shenzhen, in southern China, host city of the 2026 APEC summit, in a photograph from March 2025.

White House confirms Trump, Xi and Putin will meet in Shenzhen on Thursday to discuss nuclear weapons

Rustem Umerov, head of Ukraine's delegation at the Abu Dhabi talks, during an official visit to the United States in December 2025.

Russia and Ukraine agree to large-scale prisoner exchange in Abu Dhabi, and Trump's envoys fly to Moscow on Thursday

Heads of delegation pose for photographs at the first Russia-Africa Summit, held in Sochi, Russia, in October 2019.

Russia-Africa Summit

Russia-Africa summit brings 48 countries to Moscow as Putin pitches lifting trade from $27 billion to more than $50 billion

Finland's president, Alexander Stubb, arrives at the NATO summit in The Hague, in June 2025.

Finland and Norway spend 90 minutes on the phone with Putin, and Denmark and Sweden criticise a move made outside the European bloc

White House staff, among them special envoy Steve Witkoff, pose for photos in the Rose Garden in May 2025. Witkoff was meeting Vladimir Putin in St. Petersburg when Stephen Hubbard was released.

United States and Russia

Russia frees Stephen Hubbard, the last American it held as wrongfully detained, and Trump says no swap was needed

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media at the Vatican on 12 May 2025.

Hospitalised after lung surgery, Leo XIV phones Putin to ask for a truce to reach Oleshky

The State Duma building, the lower house of Russia's parliament, in Moscow.

United Russia takes 57.86% in Duma election that closed under the largest drone attack on Moscow since 2022