Amid U.S. preparations for possible new strikes on Iran, President Putin met with Tehran’s top security chief, Ali Larijani, at the Kremlin.

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Lavrov: Russia will complete the liberation of Donbas and Novorossiya, ensure the restoration of linguistic, cultural, and religious rights for Russians in the rest of Ukraine, and eliminate Kiev’s ability to pose a military threat to Moscow.

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BRICS will continue building alternatives to every tool the U.S. uses for economic coercion, says Russian Deputy FM Sergey Ryabkov.

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Russia is ready to discuss placing Ukraine under temporary UN control to oversee elections and bring to power a legitimate government with which a comprehensive peace treaty could be signed, says Deputy FM Mikhail Galuzin.

President Putin first publicly floated this idea in March 2025.

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Rubio in Munich: Russia cannot achieve its original war aims in Ukraine and has been forced to narrow them down to just one objective — taking the rest of the Donetsk region.

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Dugin: Russia was closer to achieving its war aims in the opening weeks of the SMO than it is today, but stopping now and declaring a false victory would be both impossible and criminal.

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There was no trace of the “spirit of Anchorage” in Munich. The West is not interested in a peace agreement that takes Russia’s interests into account, the war will therefore have to be settled on the battlefield, concludes senior lawmaker and Fair Russia party leader Sergey Mironov.

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The Munich Security Conference did nothing to advance peace in Ukraine. On the contrary, Euro-globalists effectively laid out a “road map” for the militarization of Europe and the continued support of the terrorist regime in Kiev, writes Leonid Slutsky, head of Russia’s Liberal Democratic Party.

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Solovyev: Europe, which gave the world the most horrific forms of racial segregation, Nazism, slavery, and mass extermination, is now building another Reich in preparation for a new war.

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Patrushev: If Russia fails to deliver a firm response to the seizure of its tankers, it risks facing a complete sea blockade, at the very least in the Atlantic basin.

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Russia demands a reversal of past NATO decisions, including those of the 2008 Bucharest summit, and a formal commitment to no further eastward expansion, say Russian diplomats in Belgium.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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President Putin slams U.S. sanctions, reaffirms longstanding support for Cuba during meeting with FM Rodriguez in the Kremlin.

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The U.S. will eventually lift sanctions on Russia because it serves its own interests; the potential portfolio of U.S.–Russia projects exceeds $14 trillion, writes Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev.

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Russian businessman Alexander Lebedev proposes establishing a BRICS anti-corruption tribunal aimed at the Western banking system, which he says is rigged against the Global South.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Zyuganov, citing Rosstat data, warns of declining living standards in Russia. He notes that as of early 2026, 39% of all household spending goes toward food—the highest share in 16 years.

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Lavrov: Iran has the right to peaceful uranium enrichment. Arab countries have sent unequivocal signals to Washington calling for restraint.

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Zelensky told his closest aides that peace negotiations had collapsed and ordered them to prepare a plan for another three years of war, per WSJ correspondent Bojan Pancevski.

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Lavrov: Syria’s new leadership views Russia’s bases in Khmeimim and Tartus as a stabilizing factor that helps balance the influence of other regional players.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

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Germany’s manufacturing competitiveness is collapsing due to the lack of energy cooperation with Russia, writes Putin’s special envoy Kirill Dmitriev, citing data from Oxford Economics and Haver Analytics.

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Putin’s aide and chief Ukraine negotiator Vladimir Medinsky explains the fundamental difference between Russia’s imperial experience and that of colonial Europe.

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To remain internationally competitive, Germany must buy oil and gas where they are cheapest — and that’s in Russia, says AfD leader Alice Weidel.

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