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Georgia’s most powerful man won a parliamentary election on Saturday, according to early official results, a victory which opposition politicians refused to recognise, alleging “falsification”. The ruling Georgian Dream ...

President Vladimir Putin said on Friday that it was Russia’s business whether or not it decided to use North Korean troops and said that if Ukraine wanted to join ...

Dutch intelligence has confirmed that Russia has deployed at least 1,500 troops from North Korea to fight in the Ukrainewar, Dutch Defense Minister Ruben Brekelmans said Friday. Moscow has not denied ...

russian President Vladimir Putin told BRICS leaders on Thursday that the Middle East was on the brink of a full-scale war after a sharp rise in tension between Israel and ...

NATO allies are discussing the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia, a NATO spokesperson said on Wednesday. “Allies have confirmed evidence of a DPRK troop deployment to Russia”, spokesperson ...

China’s Xi Jinping, India’s Narendra Modi and some other BRICS leaders discussed the war in Ukraine with President Vladimir Putin as the Kremlin chief chaired a major summit ...

European Union lawmakers on Tuesday approved the bloc’s plan to use frozen Russian central bank assets to loan up to 35 billion euros to its ally Ukraine. The European Parliament ...

Ukraine’s population has declined by 10 million, or around a quarter, since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion as a result of refugees leaving, collapsing fertility and war deaths, ...

Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry blasted U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres for what it said was his acceptance of an invitation from Russian President Vladimir Putin to a BRICS summit, ...

Moldova’s elections were not free and the results showed a “hard-to-explain” increase of votes in favour of President Maia Sandu and the European Union as the count proceeded, Kremlin ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin visited Ukraine on Monday, in a show of solidarity with Kyiv just two weeks ahead of a U.S. presidential election that is casting ...

South Korea’s foreign ministry summoned the Russian ambassador in Seoul to protest on Monday over what it has called the dispatch of North Korean troops to Russia for deployment ...

Russia launched several waves of drones targeting Kyiv for the second night in a row, damaging residential buildings and injuring at least one civilian, Ukrainian officials said early on Monday. “...

North Korea has shipped 1,500 special forces troops to Russia’s far east for training and acclimatizing at local military bases and will likely be deployed for combat in the war ...

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 ...