Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed drills of the country’s strategic nuclear forces that featured practice missile launches

President Trump announced new sanctions on the Kremlin that target Russia's two largest oil companies. This comes after Trump called off his meeting with Russian President Putin, saying "it didn't feel right.

The BBC's Russia editor says Trump's decision to call off his Putin talks and impose oil sanctions will not go down well in Moscow.

The European Union has imposed more economic sanctions on Russia. The new penalties announced on Thursday add to measures by U.S.

President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia would never bow to pressure from the United States or any other country, and cautioned that the response to any strikes deep into Russia would be very serious and overwhelming.

President Donald Trump canceled his planned meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Budapest, Hungary, due to insufficient progress toward peace negotiations, the White House said.

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.

Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has stated that the idea of holding a Russia-US summit in Budapest was an American initiative, but that attending it without preparation "would have been a mistake". Details: Putin said that both the meeting and the venue had been proposed by the US,