Russia announced on Sunday that its forces had seized control of the village of Vozdvyzhenka in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk region, as part of an ongoing offensive in the area.
According to a statement from the Russian Defense Ministry, Vozdvyzhenka, (...)
Sir Keir Starmer has arrived in Kyiv to sign what Downing Street is calling a "landmark 100-year partnership" with Ukraine.
The pact would formalize economic and military support already pledged to the country, and offers more.
It is the prime (...)
Ukraine struck several targets deep inside Russia on Tuesday in what it says is its "most massive" attack of the war so far.
Ammunition depots and chemical plants were hit across several regions, some of which were hundreds of kilometers from the (...)
Ukraine struck Russian regions with a major drone and missile attack overnight, damaging at least two factories and forcing schools to close in a major southern Russian city, according to Russian officials and media.
The Shot Telegram channel said (...)
An emergency task force arrived in Russia's southern Krasnodar region on Sunday as an oil spill in the Kerch Strait from two storm-stricken tankers continues to spread a month after it was first detected, the Associated Press reported.
The task (...)
North Korea has claimed it fired a new intermediate-range ballistic missile tipped with a hypersonic warhead which "will reliably contain any rivals in the Pacific region".
The launch on Monday — Pyongyang's first in two months — came as US (...)
Russia claims that its forces have captured the front-line town of Kurakhove in eastern Ukraine's Donetsk region.
The town has borne the brunt of Russian advances in recent months and is a stepping-stone to the key logistical hub of (...)
Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has threatened to cut financial support for more than 130,000 Ukrainian refugees as a dispute with Ukraine over Russian gas supplies escalates.
On 1 January, Kyiv shut off a pipeline that for decades was used to (...)
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said his country would not allow Russia to "earn additional billions on our blood" and had given the EU a year to prepare.
The European Commission said the continent's gas system was "resilient and flexible" (...)
Poland gears up to take over presidency of the European Union as the controversial Hungarian term comes to an end.
The presidency of the Council of the European Union rotates among the 27 member states once every six months.
The country in the (...)
Joe Biden and Donald Trump have led tributes to former US President and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jimmy Carter, who has died aged 100.
Carter, who lived longer than any president in history, died on Sunday afternoon at his home in Plains, (...)
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has pledged to implement the "toughest" anti-U.S. measures, state media reported Sunday, just weeks before Donald Trump returns to the White House as U.S. president.
Kim's remarks, made during a five-day plenary (...)
Former soccer player Mikheil Kavelashvili was inaugurated as Georgia's president on Sunday, consolidating the ruling Georgian Dream party's power amid protests and accusations that the move undermines the country's aspirations for European Union (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin apologized to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev on Saturday for what he described as a "tragic incident" after the crash of an Azerbaijani airliner in Kazakhstan, which claimed the lives of 38 people.
The crash (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has no immediate plans to engage in discussions aimed at resolving the Ukrainian crisis, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov announced on Saturday.
Speaking at a press briefing in Moscow, Peskov dismissed the notion of (...)
Azerbaijan Airlines says the preliminary results of an investigation into the crash of its plane in Kazakhstan on 25 December have blamed "physical and technical external interference".
Thirty-eight people died when the Embraer jet came down at high (...)
A Russian military expert has said it appears that the Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan was brought down by "something very similar to an anti-aircraft missile."
Azerbaijan Airlines flight 8432 took off from the Azerbaijani (...)
Ukrainian forces have captured an injured North Korean soldier who was sent to support Russia's war, South Korea's spy agency confirmed Friday.
The soldier is believed to be the first North Korean prisoner of war captured since December, when (...)
A Russian ballistic missile hit a residential building in the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Tuesday, killing at least one person, according to local authorities. At least 11 others were injured, as Ukrainian authorities condemned the attack on (...)
A Russian cargo ship, Ursa Major, has sunk in the Mediterranean between Spain and Algeria after an explosion in the engine room, Russia's foreign ministry has confirmed.
It said 14 members of the crew were rescued and taken to the Spanish port of (...)
Russian forces continue to make significant and steady progress across Ukraine's Donetsk region as they are now moving in on the town of Pokrovsk and appear to be closing in on Kurakhove further south.
Last week, the Russian defense ministry (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico (L) during their meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow
MOSCOW — Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico has made a surprise visit to Moscow for talks with Vladimir (...)
All three people aboard a missing plane have been rescued from the crash site in Kamchatka, a remote Russian peninsula that extends into the Atlantic Ocean, local officials say.
Authorities said on Sunday that the An-2 plane had been missing for (...)
Ukrainian drones have hit a major Russian fuel depot for the second time in just over a week, according to a senior Russian regional official, as part of a "massive" cross-border attack on fuel and energy facilities that Kyiv says supply Moscow's (...)
Activity at Russia's Hmeimim Air Base, a strategic hub that played a pivotal role in the Syrian civil war since 2015, has significantly declined amid the collapse of regime forces and shifting dynamics in the region.
Following its establishment as a (...)
