Overview

• The Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded the 2025 Peace Prize to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado for her pro-democracy advocacy.
• Speaking in Tajikistan, Vladimir Putin said the Nobel Committee had “done enormous damage” to the prize’s prestige by honoring people who “did nothing for peace.”
• Putin praised President Donald Trump’s role in recent ceasefire diplomacy, calling a Gaza deal a potential major achievement and saying Russia stands ready to help implement it.
• Kremlin aide Yuri Ushakov told TASS that Moscow backs Trump for the prize and “appreciates” his efforts to end the war in Ukraine.
• Putin also voiced hope for a one-year extension of the New START treaty after discussing Ukraine at an August meeting in Alaska, and Trump publicly thanked him on Truth Social.