Dec 22 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that residents of a border village taken into Russia by Moscow's troops had interacted with their neighbours for years without incident

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Talks between Russia and the United States in Miami on ways to resolve the conflict in Ukraine should not be seen as a breakthrough, the Izvestia news outlet cited Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov as saying in remarks published on Tuesday

Dec 22 (Reuters) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Monday that negotiations conducted with the United States and European nations aimed at ending the nearly four-year war with Russia were "very close to a real result." Read full story

President Volodymyr Zelensky warned the attacks were an attempt by Moscow to block Ukraine's access to maritime logistics

TEHRAN Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban has sharpened his long-standing criticism of the European Unions approach to the war in Ukraine, warning that Brussels decisions are placing an increasingly heavy burden on European citizens.

Fanil Sarvarov was the head of the armed forces' operational training department, Russia's Investigative Committee said.

WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Talks held between U.S., European and Ukrainian officials over the last three days in Florida aimed at ending Russia's war in Ukraine were productive and focused on aligning positions, U.S

TEHRAN A Russian foreign policy expert has suggested that Iran and Russia are moving toward forming an informal strategic bloc, with Tehran expecting more active support from its allies, including Moscow.

The recent visit of Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to Belarus and Russia should not be read as a routine round of diplomatic engagements or as a symbolic reaffirmation of existing alliances

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As some West African nations choose to cement old ties with France or a new ally in Russia, Togo wants both.

KYIV, Dec 20 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday that Ukraine would back a U.S. proposal for three-sided talks with the United States and Russia if it facilitated more exchanges of prisoners and paved the way for meetings of national leaders

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A Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa in southern Ukraine killed eight people and wounded 27, AP reported Saturday, citing Ukraines emergency service, as a Kremlin envoy was set to travel to Florida for talks on a U.S.-proposed plan to end the nearly four-year war.

KYIV, Dec 20 (Reuters) - The United States has offered a potential new format for peace talks between Ukraine and Russia with American and possibly European envoys participating, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday

KYIV, Dec 20 (Reuters) - Russia is trying to sever Ukraine's access to the Black Sea, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Saturday, following days of ramped-up airstrikes on ports and energy facilities in the Odesa region and a critical route to the Moldova border

WASHINGTON, Dec 20 - U.S. negotiators are set to meet Russian officials in Florida on Saturday for the latest talks aimed at ending Russia's war in Ukraine, as President Donald Trump's administration tries to coax an agreement out of both Russia and Ukraine to end the conflict

Russia's leader told our Russia editor that claims an attack on Europe was planned were "rubbish".

MOSCOW, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) -- Russia is in need of some 44,000 specialized professionals in the drone sector, with more than 19,000 personnel trained over the past two years, the Russian Ministry of Industry and Trade said Friday

Russia's leader said during a TV marathon that claims that an attack on Europe was planned were "nonsense".

WASHINGTON/PARIS, Dec 19 (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence reports continue to warn that Russian President Vladimir Putin intends to capture all of Ukraine and reclaim parts of Europe that belonged to the former Soviet empire, six sources familiar with U.S

BBC Russia editor Steve Rosenberg had the opportunity to ask Vladimir Putin about his plans for the future of the country.

MOSCOW, Dec 18 (Reuters) - Three people, including two crew members of a cargo vessel, were killed in overnight Ukrainian drone attacks on the Russian port of Rostov-on-Don and the town of Bataysk in the southern Rostov region, the local governor said on Thursday

The leaders are to decide whether to loan tens of billions of euros in frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's military and economic needs.

Putin said 'if the opposing side and its foreign patrons refuse to engage in substantive dialogue, Russia will achieve the liberation of its historical lands by military means.'

TEHRAN Iran and Russia have further cemented their upward trend in cooperation, signing a new agreement that outlines practical implementation steps for some clauses of the strategic partnership treaty they signed earlier this year.

The oil market is under pressure as OPEC+ members have rapidly ramped up production and the U.S. pushes Ukraine to accept a peace agreement with Russia

TEHRAN Irans Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Ali Larijani, and Russias Deputy Prime Minister for Transport, Vitaly Savelyev, emphasized the need to fast-track the strategic NorthSouth Transport Corridor during high-level talks in Tehran on Tuesday.

TEHRAN Irans Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Tuesday underscored the strategic depth of TehranMoscow relations during a meeting with a group of Russian intellectuals and policy experts in Moscow, as part of consultations on bilateral ties and key international developments.

European defense stocks fell on Tuesday after U.S

Sir Richard Knighton says more families will know what "sacrifice for our nation means" as the threat from Russia worsens

The war in Ukraine began nearly four years ago, when Russia invaded at the direction of its leader, Vladimir Putin.

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- A 6.3-magnitude earthquake struck off the eastern coast of the Kamchatka Peninsula, Russia, the Kamchatka branch of the Geophysical Survey of the Russian Academy of Sciences said Monday

MOSCOW, Dec. 15 (Xinhua) -- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met with representatives of the American Chamber of Commerce in Russia (AmCham Russia) on Monday, exchanging views on prospects for the resumption of trade and investment ties between the two countries, the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement

Russia's opposition made NATO membership unlikely for Ukraine, but it's a major policy shift to publicly abandon the goal.

TEHRAN On Monday, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi landed in Minsk before heading to Russia, where his day of meetings with top Belarusian officials focused on how Iran and Belarus can support each other in counteracting escalating Western sanctions and pressure.

LONDON, Dec 15 (Reuters) - The head of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service, the foreign spy service known as MI6, will warn that Russia poses an "aggressive, expansionist, and revisionist" threat, in her first speech since taking office

Blaise Metreweli will say the threat is posed by "an aggressive, expansionist and revisionist Russia".

TEHRAN Representatives of Afghanistans neighbors Iran, Pakistan, Uzbekistan, China, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan and Russia met in Tehran on Sunday to discuss the current and future situation of the war-stricken country, where security and safety have improved since the Taliban first returned to power in 2021, but poverty and hunger have increased and the question of international recognition remains unresolved.

KYIV, Dec 12 (Reuters) - Russia attacked two Ukrainian ports on Friday, damaging three Turkish-owned vessels including a ship carrying food supplies, Ukrainian officials and one ship owner said, days after Moscow threatened to cut "Ukraine off from the sea"

Experts say that Russian and Chinese support for Venezuela has largely dried up, with no prospect of real military or financial aid.

Ukraine's president has blamed Russia for the attack as Turkey called for a suspension of strikes on shipping and ports

After almost four years of Russia's full-scale war, Kyiv is running out of cash, and needs an estimated 135.7bn over the next two years.

The Russian ambassador is summoned over a cyber-attack on air traffic control and attempted electoral interference

Global investors were watching the latest developments between Ukraine and Russia on Friday.

Russian could attack Nato within five years, Mark Rutte said, warning allies to start ramping up preparations "now".

Russia has tried to make the most of the White House's national security strategy and President Trump's criticism of Europe and Ukraine's leadership of late.

KYIV, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Russia's capture of Pokrovsk appears to be a matter of 'when' not 'if', and while its fall will not trigger a collapse in Ukraine's defences, it weakens Kyiv at a sensitive juncture in U.S.-led negotiations to end the war

MOSCOW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's plan for peace in Ukraine includes proposals to restore Russian energy flows to Europe, major U.S

TEHRAN Despite the recent US-Russia negotiations on ending the war in Ukraine ending without resultsreportedly due to deadlock over Trumps 28-point plan, NATO foreign ministers have taken a firm stance.

Dec 10 (Reuters) - Russia has sent a planeload of humanitarian aid to Sri Lanka after the island nation was struck by Cyclone Ditwah in late November, Russia's RIA news agency reported early on Wednesday, citing Shobini Gunasekera, Colombo's ambassador to Moscow

As winter chills New Delhi, Russian President Vladimir Putin swept into the Indian capital for a two-day state visit on December 45, stirring warm excitement and euphoria after a four-year gap since his last trip in December 2021

"We all know that the destiny of this country is the destiny of Europe," German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said.

Ukraine barely has a hold on Pokrovsk, but its forces are keen to show they are still resisting Russia's advance.

MOSCOW, Dec 9 (Reuters) - Russia's top general, Valery Gerasimov, said on Tuesday that Moscow's forces were advancing along the entire front line in Ukraine and were targeting surrounded Ukrainian troops in the town of Myrnohrad

Kyiv is seeking to resist a US push for a deal which would see territory handed over to Russia.

SEOUL, Dec 9 (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to Russia's Vladimir Putin and sympathies to the embassy in the country regarding the death of Aleksandr Ivanovich Matsegora, Russian extraordinary ambassador to North Korea, state media KCNA reported on Tuesday

U.S. President Donald Trump's diplomatic efforts to end the nearly-four-year-old war have run into sharply conflicting demands by Russia and Ukraine.

TEHRAN On December 8, 2024, Syria entered a new phase when Damascus fell, and the Ba'ath Partys long rule ended. Bashar al-Assad departed for Russia, where he was granted asylum

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The Kremlin welcomes the starkly worded document, which does not cast Russia as a threat to the US.

Dec 5 (Reuters) - A protective shield at the Chornobyl nuclear plant in war-torn Ukraine, built to contain radioactive material from the 1986 disaster, can no longer perform its main safety function due to drone damage, the U.N. nuclear watchdog said on Friday, a strike Ukraine has attributed to Russia

Kenyan families whose sons have been duped into fighting for Russia demand they be brought home.

Russia and India voiced concern over the situation in the Palestinian enclave of Gaza, and called on all parties to remain committed to the cessation of conflict, Anadolu reported Friday.

The issue of forcing citizens to serve in the military is back as the war between Russia and Ukraine grinds on.

TEHRAN The war in Ukraine has emerged as one of the defining struggles of the 21st century, redrawing global fault lines and igniting fierce debate over its origins. While the result of US-mediated talks over the war between Russia and Ukraine remains unclear, the question of how this confrontation began and why it has endured has taken on fresh urgency.

Germany is introducing voluntary military service to boost national defences after Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Deals have been signed in civil nuclear energy and critical minerals during the Russian PM's stay in India.