Moscow wants to resume arms control talks with the United States "as soon as possible," Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Friday. Such negotiations are "in the interests of the whole world" and the peoples of both countries, Peskov told reporters at his Friday briefing, adding that the ball is now in the Americans' court.

The Kremlin says a settlement in Ukraine can't be facilitated by a drop in global oil prices as U.S. President Donald Trump has suggested.

Trump said on Thursday he wanted to meet Putin as soon as possible to secure an end to the war with Ukraine and expressed his desire to work towards cutting nuclear arms, something the Kremlin said Putin had made clear he wanted too.

The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's latest remarks on the Ukraine war as lacking anything new but emphasized Moscow's readiness for "mutually respectful" dialogue with Washington.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready for talks with U.S. President Donald Trump, and Moscow is waiting for respective signals, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. "Putin is ready, we are waiting for signals.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Trump was also fond of imposing sanctions during his first term and Moscow sees nothing new in the president's latest ultimatum. "We do not see any particular new elements here," Peskov told Russian media Thursday, Politico.eu reported. "He likes these methods, at least he liked them during his first presidency."

Moscow responds to Trump ultimatum as 1,000 North Koreans killed in Kursk - Kremlin seeks to play down new Trump threat over war in Ukraine

Russia said on Friday that any placement of British military assets in Ukraine under a new 100-year partnership agreement between Kyiv and London would be of concern to Moscow.

The Kremlin said on Thursday it saw nothing particularly new in a threat by U.S. President Donald Trump to hit Russia with new sanctions and tariffs if it did not agree to end the war in Ukraine.

The attack came as South Korea’s military said North Korea is preparing to send more troops to join Russia’s fight against Ukraine, despite Pyongyang suffering a high rate of losses among its existing deployment of 11,000 and seeing some of its soldiers captured.

Russian President Vladimir Putin is ready to talk to US counterpart Donald Trump but is waiting for signals from Washington first, the Kremlin said on Friday, fuelling expectations the two would be

Speaking by video from the White House to the annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Mr Trump said on Thursday that the Opec+ alliance of oil exporting countries shares responsibility for the nearly three-year conflict in Ukraine because it has kept oil prices too high.