A Russian lawmaker has invoked the threat of nuclear war in responding to an unfounded claim by Tucker Carlson that Vladimir Putin was the subject of a U.S. assassination plot. Russian parliamentary speaker Vyacheslav Volodin responded to the American right-wing broadcaster's assertion—which was not backed up by evidence,

In the past, the Russian president said that any peace deal should respect the “realities on the ground”, hinting that Moscow wants to keep all the territories it currently occupies in Ukraine.