Starmer will seek a "backstop" from the US in exchange for committing UK troops to serve alongside other European militaries as part of a peacekeeping force in Ukraine, the Times says. Trump has indicated there would be limited US support for any such arrangement.

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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.

Unlike Nixon and Kissinger’s gambit in the 1970s, the strategy threatens to divide the West.

But, from Mr Putin’s point of view, he had good reason to be part of it. As the boss of one of Russia’s state-backed investment funds, Mr Dmitriev has been cutting deals for more than a decade. Mr Putin wants America to loosen sanctions on his economy.

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.

"There can be no settlement" without involving Kyiv, Bridget Phillipson tells BBC's Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg.

The UK leader has been advised to choose his words carefully at this week’s crucial White House meeting

President Vladimir Putin on Sunday appointed Kirill Dmitriev, the chief of Russia's sovereign wealth fund, as a special envoy on international economic and investment cooperation.

A New York Times report Wednesday night laid out the case that President Donald Trump's first month in office bears some resemblance to the early days of Russian President Vladimir Putin — but one journalist who fled Russia flagged a "hell of a difference" between the two,