Kirill Dmitriev wrote on Elon Musk’s X platform for the first time since 2012 this week to declare US-Russia cooperation was “key to address world challenges.” Then he posted a video graphic depicting a joint mission to Mars with the US and Saudi Arabia on what appears to be one of Musk’s SpaceX rockets.

Meanwhile the US president says Europe should provide the security guarantees after any ceasefire deal with Russia.

One of Elon Musk's engineers at the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), Edward "Big Balls" Coristine, is reportedly the great-grandson of a former KGB agent. This is according to journalist Jacob Silverman,

"The View" co-host Joy Behar suggested that President Donald Trump might owe something to Russian Vladimir Putin during a discussion about his admin's posture on the war.

A top security aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin held talks with Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim as the Kremlin builds ties with Southeast Asian nations seeking to offset the risks of the growing competition between the US and China.

The United States voted against a Ukrainian-drafted United Nations resolution condemning Russian aggression in Ukraine.

Kazakhstan's oil exports are on schedule via its main oil export route, the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC), the country's energy minister said on Wednesday, despite damage to a pumping station from a drone attack last week.

Sir Keir Starmer has reiterated his call for a US security guarantee in Ukraine to deter Vladimir Putin from invading again, as he prepares to meet Donald Trump. Speaking on the plane to Washington DC,

A US-educated former Goldman Sachs banker, with no formal diplomatic role at the time, Dmitriev cut an unexpected figure at the talks next to more conventional members of the Russian delegation such as foreign minister Sergei Lavrov.

Three years later, against all obstacles and all predictions, the civilians, journalists, soldiers, and waitresses are still working together. Ukraine’s million-man army, the largest in Europe, is still fighting.

Mikhail Shaidorov produced a season-best score in the free skate on Saturday to become the first skater from Kazakhstan to win the Four Continents title since Denis Ten in 2015.