VLADIMIR Putin has vowed to support Nicolas Maduro after the US seized one of the Venezuelan tyrant’s oil tankers – pushing Washington and Caracas closer to all-out war. The Russian

President Trump isn’t “concerned” about Russian leader Vladimir Putin having expressed support for Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro, according to the White House — despite dolloping heavy military and economic pressure on the South American’s narcoterrorist regime.

Vladimir Putin does not want a deal, and the sweetness of being begged to entertain one is something the Russian president relishes. Five hours of US President Donald Trump’s envoy and son-in-law meeting with the Kremlin head seemed to yield little publicly.

The Russian President's India trip comes as relations between Washington and Delhi remain strained, writes Harsh V. Pant.

Donald Trump still doesn’t seem to have learned a thing about the Russian dictator he calls a friend. He’s tried all kinds of contradictory gambits in pursuit of peace in Ukraine: welcoming Vladimir Putin in Alaska,

US President Donald Trump’s emissaries to the Kremlin may have been spinning their wheels during talks last week in Moscow on a possible Ukraine peace deal, but the Russians can now press a new advantage: The widening rift between Washington and Europe.

MS NOW host Rachel Maddow said the Kremlin is running the United States' foreign policy in an interview on "The Late Show" with host Stephen Colbert. "You know, Russia is a podunk country," Maddow said to Colbert.

Trump's Venezuela strategy targets Putin's allies, potentially creating leverage to end the Ukraine war through weakening Russia's client states.

Ukraine's Zelensky said he cannot cede land to Russia as he has no legal or moral right to do so. Follow Newsweek's live coverage.