German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has called Russian ruler Vladimir Putin "perhaps the most serious war criminal of our time". Source: Merz in an interview with German TV channel Sat.1, to be aired ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged Europe not to allow Russia to determine the terms of a peace deal in Ukraine, warning that doing so would only embolden President Vladimir Putin "to ...

German diplomat Christoph Heusgen — former ambassador to the UN, ex-adviser to the German chancellor, and head of the Munich ...

Ukraine must participate in the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin in Budapest, ...

European democracy and rule of law are at risk, the general says, so Europe must give Ukraine whatever it can to pressure ...

Yet, unlike the Mideast, where Trump squeezed Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu to endorse a ceasefire in Gaza, the president ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz credited U.S. President Donald Trump with persuading Russia's President to agree to a meeting with his Ukrainian counterpart. This meeting, to ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday pressed for a ceasefire in the war in Ukraine before President Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meet. “I ...

The German government is "skeptical" about the meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin ...

Russia's president says Moscow is 'closely monitoring' the situation, warns that Ukraine is playing a 'dangerous game'.

A phone call between U.S. President Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin shows that the Russian president reacts to pressure for serious peace talks, a German government spokesperson said on Friday. "The ...