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President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine had launched an incursion into Russian territory to “restore justice” and pressure Moscow’s forces, in his first acknowledgement of Kyiv’s surprise offensive into ...

A 33-year-old dual Russian and German national Artur Petrov appeared in court in New York for the first time on Friday after being extradited to the United States from Cyprus, ...

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy acknowledged for the first time on Saturday that Ukrainian forces were fighting in the surprise offensive in Russia’s Kursk, as the border region’s authorities rushed ...

Russia was fighting intense battles on Saturday against thousands of Ukrainian troops as deep as 20 km (12 miles) inside the Kursk region after Ukraine’s biggest attack on Russian sovereign territory ...

A man convicted in the killing of Russian opposition politician Boris Nemtsov has been discharged from jail after signing a contract to join the military operation in Ukraine, state-run news ...

Video posted on social media on Friday and verified by Reuters showed a convoy of burnt-out Russian military trucks along a highway in the Kursk region of southern Russia, where ...

The Mexican president on Thursday rejected a request from Ukraine’s government to arrest Vladimir Putin if the Russian leader defies an international arrest warrant and attends the inauguration of ...

Russian forces were battling Ukrainian troops for a third day on Thursday after they smashed through the Russian border in the Kursk region, an audacious attack on the world’s ...

Russia said on Wednesday it was fighting intense battles against Ukrainian forces that had penetrated its southern border near a major natural gas transmission hub, in one of the largest ...

A top Russian official told Ukraine on Tuesday that the longer it waited to enter peace talks, the tougher the terms would be for its people. Moscow has said talks ...

The chief of Russia’s general staff, Valery Gerasimov, has inspected Russian forces in the combat zone in Ukraine, the defence ministry said on Tuesday. The ministry said Gerasimov heard ...

YouTube speeds in Russia are set to sharply decline on desktop computers due Google’s failure to upgrade its equipment in Russia and its refusal to unblock channels of Russian ...

Ukraine’s military said on Saturday it had sunk a submarine in Russian-controlled Sevastopol, attacked a southern Russian airfield and hit oil depots and fuel and lubricant storage facilities in ...

A family of Russian sleeper agents flown to Moscow in the biggest East-West prisoner swap since the Cold War were so deep under cover that their children found out they ...

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan returned to the United States on Thursday, hours after being freed from Russian detention in the biggest prisoner exchange ...

U.S. journalist Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan were released by Russia on Thursday as part of the biggest East-West prisoner exchange since the end of the ...

Signs of a major prisoner exchange between Russia and Belarus on one side and the United States, Germany and Slovenia on the other, multiplied on Thursday but there was no ...

Russia launched several waves of drones on Kyiv in what was one of the war’s largest attacks of its kind targeting Ukraine, the military administration of the city said ...

The Kremlin on Tuesday dismissed as absurd U.S. intelligence assertions that Russia is seeking to meddle in the presidential election and said that U.S. spies were intent on ...

Russian technology company Yandex on Tuesday said it may start paying dividends for the first time, as it reported a sharp rise in core earnings after completing a lengthy and ...

At least 140 people were injured in southern Russia on Monday when a train carrying 800 passengers smashed into a truck on a level crossing, causing eight carriages to derail, Russian Railways ...

The Kremlin on Friday welcomed Donald Trump’s comments on Russia being “a war machine” that had defeated Napoleon and Hitler, but said it was not wearing rose-tinted spectacles when ...

Russia will carefully consider how to respond to the European Union’s transfer to Ukraine of 1.5 billion euros taken from the proceeds of frozen Russian assets, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov ...

Russia attacked Ukrainian energy facilities in two regions between the capital Kyiv and the Russian border with drones overnight, leaving tens of thousands of people without power, Ukraine’s national ...