Russia's leader praised what he called Orban's "balanced position on the situation in Ukraine".

Andriy Yermak, 54, has been the Ukrainian president's chief of staff throughout Russia's full-scale war.

Her resignation comes as a South African allegedly recruited to fight in Ukraine recounts the horrors of war to the BBC.

CHISINAU, Moldova (Reuters) -Moldova's Parliament voted on Thursday to close a Russian cultural centre, a new bid to reduce Moscow's influence in the country a day after Russia's ambassador was summoned over drone intrusions that Moldova said were unacceptable

The Russian president accuses Kyiv of wanting to fight "to the last Ukrainian" - which he says Russia is also "in principle" ready to do.

Putin mixed a readiness to engage with the U.S. over a possible peace plan with several warnings that Russia was prepared to fight on if necessary and take more of Ukraine.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Several congressional Republicans are harshly criticizing President Donald Trump's White House over its handling of a proposed Ukraine peace plan they say favors Russia, a sharp departure for a party that has adhered closely to almost all of Trump's initiatives

In a matter of days, Army Secretary Dan Driscoll vaulted to a key negotiator in the Trump administration's push to end the Russia-Ukraine war.

There's been little official comment from Moscow regarding a revised U.S.-brokered peace plan for Ukraine

The US president said he had not heard the audio, but that it sounded like "standard" negotiations.

Ukraine has reportedly agreed to a potential peace deal with Russia in what could be a massive step toward bringing the devastating four-year war to an end

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Three people were killed and at least 16 injured in a major Ukrainian drone attack on southern Russia with residential buildings damaged in the Black Sea port of Novorossiysk and the cities of Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar, Russian officials said

The attacks hit several residential buildings in Kyiv and killed two people, while Russia's Rostov region reported three deaths.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. Army Secretary Dan Driscoll held talks with Russian officials in Abu Dhabi on Monday, a U.S

Talks between U.S. and Ukrainian officials were held this weekend after it emerged that Russia and the White House had secretly devised a peace plan.

Police are investigating allegations that Jacob Zuma's daughter, Duduzile, lured men into fighting in Ukraine.

GENEVA (Reuters) -The United States and Ukraine were set to continue work on Monday on a plan to end the war with Russia after agreeing to modify an earlier proposalthat was widely seen as too favorable to Moscow

There are 28 key points and while several on the face of it could be acceptable to Ukraine, others cross Kyiv's red lines.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio says more work is needed to finalise a US-Ukraine deal that will then need Russia's agreement.

Ukraine and some of its Western allies met in Geneva to discuss the U.S. proposal for peace between Kyiv and Russia, which includes concessions to Moscow.

Aishat Baimuradova fled her home this year in the hope of living the way she wanted, but she was then found dead in her rented flat.

GENEVA: Ukrainian and US envoys will meet in Switzerland on Sunday along with European security chiefs to discuss Washington's plan for ending the war with Russia, officials said, after Kyiv pushed back on proposals seen as favourable to Moscow

TEHRAN Nearly 1,370 days into the RussiaUkraine war, President Donald Trumps 28-point peace plan has laid bare the contradictions of Western policy

Oil prices and energy stocks fell sharply on Friday morning as the U.S. pushed for a Russia-Ukraine peace deal.

Here is the verbatim text of Trumps 28-point draft proposal to end Russia's war in Ukraine, which has been presented to Kyiv for consideration.

Russia and Ukraine may be about to enter a period of intense diplomacy, writes the BBC's Russia editor.

Russia has said it is yet to receive anything official from the US on its peace plan, after Ukraine's Volodymr Zelensky said he was ready to work with the Trump administration on its "vision" to bring an end to the war, the BBC reported.

The plan was reportedly drafted by US and Russian officials, without Ukraine's involvement

Senior U.S

Russia is using Telegram to recruit Ukrainian children and teenagers to carry out sabotage and bombings according to the Ukrainian government.

MOSCOW, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday that the power consumption of data centers will more than triple in the current decade and the country will build more nuclear power units

It comes amid reports the US and Russia have prepared a 28-point peace plan, allegedly containing major concessions for Ukraine.

Two blocks of flats were destroyed by cruise missiles in the city of Ternopil, Ukraine's air force says.

MUNICH (Reuters) -Germany will not hit its own 3.5% defence spending target in 2029, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said on Wednesday, as the country ramps up spending in the wake of Russia's war with Ukraine

Army officials have made a rare wartime visit to Kyiv by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration, arriving on an unannounced trip for talks with Ukraine's leaders in an attempt to revive stalled peace talks with Russia, Politico reported on Wednesday

With Europe imposing sanctions on Moscow, there has been a growing network of vessels sailing without a valid flag from Russia through European waters

Donald Tusk said the two suspects had entered Poland from Belarus and had long worked for Russia.

A group of U.S

Ukraine is working to resume prisoner exchanges with Russia that could bring home 1,200 Ukrainian prisoners, as per agreements brokered in Istanbul.

TEHRAN Irans First Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref will participate in the 24th Meeting of the Council of Heads of Government (Prime Ministers) of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) in Russia.

(Reuters) -Ukraine is working to resume the exchange of prisoners with Russia, hoping for the release of 1,200 Ukrainians, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and his Security Council chief said

Six people are killed in Kyiv, and Ukraine targets one of Russia's biggest oil ports on the Black Sea coast.

Russia used at least 430 drones and 18 missiles in the attack that left gaping holes in some city buildings, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said.

A heavy overnight missileanddrone barrage struck Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities late Thursday into Friday, igniting fires in residential areas, damaging energy facilities, and prompting rolling blackouts.

'When Russia is lowering the threshold of doing mischief, using force or anything ..

Russian recruitment networks are targeting Kenyans with fake job offers, authorities say

Years of conflict have taken their toll and the war of attrition is continuing on the homefront - but Ukrainians are fighting back hard by trying to keep morale high

CHISINAU (Reuters) -A new dispute underscored the split in Moldova's Orthodox faith on Wednesday as the ex-Soviet state's largest church rejected any notion that it was a "Russian church" while a rival church linked to Romania accused it of mass deception

The Russian attacks have brought rolling blackouts to Ukraine as winter approaches and U.S.-led diplomatic efforts remain at a standstill.

Footage shows the moment Russia's first anthropomorphic robot fell just seconds after its debut

SYDNEY (Reuters) -Australia's highest court on Wednesday blocked Russia from building a new embassy in the nation's capital, unanimously upholding a law that cancelled its lease on national security grounds

President Vucic has traded barbs with the Kremlin amid differences over gas supplies and Serbia's arms trade.

(Reuters) -Russia imposed entry bars on Tuesday on 30 Japanese individuals, including a foreign ministry official, in response to sanctions introduced by Tokyo as part of moves to denounce Moscow's actions in its more than three-year-old war in Ukraine

MOSCOW, Nov. 11 (Xinhua) -- Forty-three people were injured in the collapse of a wooden structure during a funeral in Russia's Chechnya, the regional ministry of health said Tuesday

KYIV (Reuters) -Ukraine and Russia issued conflicting accounts on Monday of fighting around Myrnohrad, an embattled town to the east of Pokrovsk which Moscow's forces have enveloped from almost all sides

Serhiy Kuznetsov is wanted in Germany over the 2022 attack on Russia's Nord Stream gas pipelines.

Russian President Vladimir Putin last week ordered his officials to complete a road map for the extraction of rare earths by Dec.1.

BUDAPEST (Reuters) -Hungary said on Saturday it had obtained an indefinite waiver from U.S. sanctions to use Russian oil and gas, but a White House official reaffirmed that the exemption was for one year only

Overnight, 25 locations including Kyiv were hit, leaving many areas without electricity and heating.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Two people were wounded when a Ukrainian drone hit a residential building in the Russian city of Saratov, local governor Roman Busargin said in a statement on Saturday

The opt-out comes despite the US increasing pressure on allies to sever economic ties with Russia.

Nearly four years on from Russia's invasion, the arts are back but the war permeates everything.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal prosecutors are preparing grand jury subpoenas to investigate Obama-era intelligence officials who produced an assessment finding Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election in a bid to help Donald Trump, according to two sourcesfamiliar with the matter

It is unclear whether the citizens were fighting on behalf of Russia or Ukraine.