There was a stony silence in Moscow a day after President Donald Trump signalled he had lost his patience with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Kremlin may have convinced itself that US President Donald Trump didn’t have the stomach to apply real pressure on Moscow to end the brutal conflict in Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy hailed "very important" new U.S. and European Union energy sanctions on Russia on Thursday, but said more pressure would be needed on Moscow to secure a ceasefire in the war.

European Union leaders are aiming to greenlight a new raft of sanctions against Russia at a summit on Thursday.

Sharaa, travelled to Moscow for a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday, in the first face-to-face contact the pair have had.

Russian women were early to feminism. Now, though, their vision of liberation can look strangely like the domestic trap they were supposed to escape.

President Donald Trump says Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has personally assured him that India will stop buying Russian oil

Saturday’s protest was the second in a series of national protests against President Donald Trump, with others in neighboring towns including Pullman, Clarkston and Grangeville. More than 2,500 protests occurred nationally.

Kyiv and Moscow have offered contrasting responses after Donald Trump imposed sanctions on Russia's biggest oil firms in a major shift of policy. Meanwhile, NATO jets are scrambled after Russian military aircraft briefly enter Lithuanian airspace.

Syria’s interim leader, who led a swift rebel offensive last year that ousted former Syrian President Bashar Assad despite years of Moscow’s support, held talks Wednesday in Russia during his first visit to the country that gave asylum to the deposed autocrat.