Watch: Zelensky shares video of Russian drone strike on Ukrainian passenger train
Arpan Rai6 October 2025 04:16
Trump says Putin’s offer on nuclear arms control ‘sounds like a good idea’
US president Donald Trump said Russian president Vladimir Putin’s offer to voluntarily maintain limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons “sounds like a good idea.”
Putin last month offered to voluntarily maintain limits capping the size of the world’s two biggest nuclear arsenals set out in the 2010 New START accord, which expires in February, if the US does the same.
“Sounds like a good idea to me,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House, when asked about Putin’s offer.
Russia’s UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia last week had said Moscow was still waiting for Trump to respond to Putin’s offer to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons once a key arms control treaty expires.
Any agreement on continuing to limit nuclear arms would stand in contrast to rising tensions between the United States and Russia since Trump and Putin met in Alaska in mid-August given reported incursions of Russian drones into Nato airspace.
Arpan Rai6 October 2025 03:58
Mystery drones are causing havoc across Europe. Here’s what we know
Tom Watling6 October 2025 03:00
Patrolling Nato’s skies with the RAF on Europe’s creeping frontline
Tom Watling6 October 2025 02:01
Nine killed after Ukraine hit by flash floods
Tom Watling6 October 2025 01:01
Europe mulls using Russian assets to fund loan to Ukraine
Tom Watling6 October 2025 00:01
How Europe aims to support Ukraine using seized Russian assets
Tom Watling5 October 2025 23:01
Frantic 911 calls after Ukraine refugee’s fatal stabbing released
Tom Watling5 October 2025 22:01
Russia using ‘new missile upgrade to bypass Ukraine’s air defence’
Tom Watling5 October 2025 21:01
Putin warns of ‘new escalation’ if US supplies weapons to Kyiv
Putin warns of ‘new escalation’ if US supplies weapons to Kyiv
Vladimir Putin has warned the US that supplying Ukraine with long-range missiles will damage relations between Washington and Moscow. Speaking on Thursday (2 October), the Russian president praised Donald Trump as a “comfortable conversationalist” who “listens, hears, and responds” following their Alaska summit in August. However, he said that deployment of US Tomahawk cruise missiles to Ukraine “would mark a completely new, qualitatively new stage of escalation”, as well as hurt ties between the US and Russia. “Will this damage our relations, which have begun to show some light at the end of the tunnel? Of course it will,” he said, though stressed Russia would be able to shoot them down.
Tom Watling5 October 2025 20:01
