Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who is currently his country's ambassador to Britain, said the White House had "questioned the unity of the whole Western world."

Members of the so-called Five Eyes spy alliance, as well as Israeli and Saudi officials, fear the identities of foreign assets could inadvertently be shared with Moscow.

Russia ruled out European proposals to send peacekeeping forces to Ukraine and said on Thursday that French President Emmanuel Macron had threatened it by suggesting that Moscow was a grave menace to Europe.

The Reuters report quoted a U.S. official and another person familiar with the matter as saying the White House has asked the State and Treasury departments to draft a list of sanctions that could be eased for U.S. officials to discuss with Russian representatives in the coming days.

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Russian negotiators have asked their American counterparts to consider reopening US airspace to Russian aircraft and restoring direct flights between the two countries, the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday.

Tension between the United States and Ukraine, laid bare in the Oval Office meeting of Trump and Zelensky, is seen in Moscow as a “gift.”

The captured terrorist extradited to the U.S. has confessed to a key facilitation role in the deadly Abbey Gate bombing of August 26, 2021.

Moscow 'ready to do everything in its power' to facilitate US-Iran nuclear talks as Trump seeks to rebuild ties with Putin - Anadolu Ajansı

Moscow hopes to take advantage of a growing rift between the U.S. and Ukraine, and Europe more broadly. The Kremlin on Sunday cheered the shift in U.S. foreign policy under President Donald Trump, saying the American view now “largely coincides” with Russia’s take on geopolitics.