Trump has argued that the Arctic island is critical for U.S. security given threats posed by Russia as well as China.

Mr Putin praised Russia’s constructive role in Latin America and the Middle East. He made no mention of America’s armed forces having abducted Nicolás Maduro, Venezuela’s president, a Russian ally whom he had welcomed in the Kremlin eight months earlier—much less of how easily they had knocked out Venezuela’s Russian-built air defences.

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Far East was buried under metres of snow by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years on Tuesday as a winter blast swept across Asia, dusting Shanghai white and grounding flights in Japan's northwest.

President Trump signed the founding charter of his Board of Peace without major U.S. allies on Thursday then met with Ukraine's President Zelenskyy.

Feet of snow buried the town of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Kamchatka, in Russia's Far East, during the middle of last week. Two people were killed by snow falling from rooftops. The Kamchatka Peninsula was also the location of a major earthquake and tsunami last year.

MOSCOW, Jan 22 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has said that Russia is ready to donate $1 billion in U.S. dollars from its sovereign assets frozen in the United States to President Donald Trump's Board of Peace and commit an unspecified amount for the restoration of Ukraine.

Deploying parts of President Trump’s Golden Dome missile shield in Greenland would make Americans safer as the massive Arctic island is “critical” for the US to be able to stop an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) launched by Russia or China,

Video shows the impacts and aftermath of record-breaking snowfall in Russia.

Zelenskyy said his country's 1,000 daily interceptor drones are "still not enough," even at a 2:1 manufacturing ratio against Russia's Shaheds.