President Donald Trump’s sanctions crackdown on Russia risks undermining one of the bright spots in the Trump economy: tame gas prices.

Defence Secretary John Healey has a message for Russian President Vladimir Putin: "We're hunting your submarines." There has been a "30% rise in Russian vessels threatening UK waters", he says. This, according to Healey, is evidence of increased "Russian aggression right across the board" which he says is impacting Europe, not just Ukraine.

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

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

The drone and missile attacks on Ukraine came as the US president put on hold his plans for an imminent summit in Budapest.

Could the US imposition of sanctions on Russia’s two biggest oil companies, backed by similar measures from Europe, mark the moment when the transatlantic alliance finally does what it takes to pressure the Kremin into ending its invasion of Ukraine?

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.