President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday oversaw a test of Russia's nuclear forces on land, sea and air to rehearse their readiness and command structure. The test included the launch of a land-based "Yars" intercontinental ballistic missile from a cosmodrome,

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

Vladimir Putin faces a logistical problem in traveling to the Donald Trump meeting in Budapest, Hungary, to discuss ending the Ukraine war.

President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin are no longer meeting in Budapest as was announced just last week.

After he was briefed on what the senior official described as a “productive” call between Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on Monday, Trump essentially pressed pause — believing both sides in the Russia-Ukraine conflict were not ready to seriously talk peace, the official said.

The Polish foreign minister said he could not guarantee that Russian President Vladimir Putin's plane would not be forced to land.

President Donald Trump does not plan to meet with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the immediate future, a White House official tells Fox News Digital.

The postponement of Donald Trump’s much-anticipated summit with Vladimir Putin in Budapest had seemed to confirm all his critics’ fears. At the White House on Tuesday, the president explained that he did not want a “wasted meeting”.