Russia

Donald Trump on Thursday blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation’s war with Russia, a comment that further suggests Trump is likely to radically shift U....

Russia is testing the combat readiness of a unit equipped with Yars intercontinental ballistic missiles in a region northwest of Moscow, news agencies quoted the defence ministry as saying on ...

Laws that would ban “propaganda” which discourages Russians from having children won overwhelming approval on Thursday in the first stage of their passage through parliament. The move to outlaw content ...

Ukraine’s prime minister appealed at a meeting in Switzerland on Thursday for more help clearing landmines and unexploded bombs covering up to a quarter of the country – the most ...

Ukraine is asking for a NATO membership invitation before Joe Biden leaves the White House, arguing it would be a fitting legacy for the U.S. president, a senior Ukrainian ...

The Kremlin said on Wednesday it was too early to comment in detail on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s “victory plan,” but that Kyiv needed to “sober up” and realise ...

The United States is “concerned” by reports of North Korean soldiers fighting for Russia in Ukraine, a White House spokesperson on Tuesday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy this week accused North ...

Alexei Moskalyov, a Russian man jailed for two years for discrediting the army after his daughter drew an anti-war picture, alleged after his release on Tuesday that he had been ...

NATO will not be cowed by Russian threats but keep up its strong support of Kyiv, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on his first visit to the alliance’s Ukraine ...

A British woman killed by the Novichok nerve agent following the poisoning of former Russian double agent Sergei Skripal was caught in the “crossfire” of an international assassination attempt, a ...

The Kremlin said that NATO’s annual nuclear exercise involving nuclear-capable military aircraft, which began on Monday, was fuelling tensions in light of the “hot war” unfolding in Ukraine. NATO ...

Russia’s defence ministry said on Sunday that its forces had taken control of the village of Mykhailivka in eastern Ukraine, where they have been advancing towards the important logistics ...

Russia’s Vladimir Putin held talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Friday in Turkmenistan, where the two leaders hailed their countries growing economic ties and similar views on world ...

Ukrainian forces control around half of the strategic city of Toretsk in eastern Ukraine as they attempt to stave off assaults by Russian troops, the city’s local authorities said ...

The Kremlin on Thursday dismissed South Korean assertions that North Korea may have sent some military personnel to help Russia against Ukraine and might be weighing a bigger deployment. South ...

Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said on Wednesday that achieving a just peace in Ukraine would be impossible if Kyiv lost its neutrality by joining a bloc such as ...

A summit meeting of Ukraine’s key allies in Ramstein, Germany has been postponed after U.S. President Joe Biden cancelled a scheduled overseas trip, the organisers said on Wednesday. ...

The Kremlin on Wednesday denied reports by American journalist Bob Woodward that former U.S. President Donald Trump spoke to Russian President Vladimir Putin as many as seven times after ...

Russia said on Tuesday that it still had an emergency hotline with the United States and the NATO military alliance to deflate crises as nuclear risks rise amid the gravest ...

Russian forces have entered the outskirts of the eastern Ukraine frontline city of Toretsk, Ukraine’s military said late on Monday, less than a week after the fall of the ...

“God save the Tsar!” was one of the first public birthday wishes for President Vladimir Putin who turns 72 on Monday and who has been Russia’s paramount leader for nearly ...

Russian state media company VGTRK has been targeted in an unprecedented cyberattack, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, saying that specialists were working hard to determine who was responsible. ...

Russia knocked out around 80% of critical infrastructure in the town of Pokrovsk, a key logistics hub in Ukraine’s east, as Moscow’s troops inched forward, a local official said ...

The current confrontation between Russia and the West over Ukraine is unparalleled in history and a mistake could lead to catastrophe, a senior Russian diplomat said on Thursday when asked ...