Category: 1. Russia

A peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine is “taking shape,” said Steve Witkoff, U.S. President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine, during an appearance on Fox News in which he discussed his recent meeting with Russian President…

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Hungarian Foreign Affairs and External Economic Relations Minister Peter Szijjártó said that Budapest opposes the European Union’s initiative to move a mission to train Ukrainian soldiers to Ukraine, as Europe…

A Russian military court in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, on the Far Eastern island of Sakhalin, has sentenced former soldier Romn Ivanishin to 15 years in prison. According to the business newspaper Kommersant, he was found guilty of surrendering to the…

One person was killed and nine others injured in a Ukrainian drone attack on Russia’s Kursk region on Monday night, according to the regional operational command.

Local authorities said the victim was an 85-year-old woman. The injured sustained…

Officials from around the world condemned Russia and its president, Vladimir Putin, as the Ukrainian city of Sumy continued to sift through the wreckage caused by Russian a missile strike that left at least 34 people dead.

Ukraine’s state…

Russian president Vladimir Putin does not seem interested in peace: Sunday’s missile strike on Sumy, the worst civilian attack this year, proves he is determined to expand into Ukraine at any cost.

This is a war of ideas, narratives and…

LVIV –- Pavlo Martsenyuk, a 34-year-old soldier from Ukraine’s Khmelnytskiy region, suffered a severe injury in a mine blast last year near Pokrovsk.

Martsenyuk’s unit was preparing to head to combat positions when a mine exploded. It was his…