The Kremlin on Monday said Western criticism would not change plans announced by President Vladimir Putin to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in neighbouring Belarus.
The Russian capital and its surrounding areas have been targeted by rare drone attacks, causing 'minor' damage to buildings and no casualties, officials have announced....
Kyiv's peace plan is the only way to end Russia's war in Ukraine and the time for mediation efforts has passed, a top aide to President Volodymyr Zelensky has said....
North Korea has informed Japan that it is preparing to launch a satellite, but Tokyo warned it may actually be a sanctions-defying ballistic missile test....
Russia's interior ministry has put US Senator Lindsey Graham on a wanted list, Russian media has reported, citing the ministry's database....
Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko has said that if any other country wanted to join a Russia-Belarus union there could be 'nuclear weapons for everyone'....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday praised his country's air defence forces, after the capital Kyiv saw the largest drone attack since the beginning of the Russian invasion....
A senior ally of President Vladimir Putin said on Friday the conflict in Ukraine could last for decades and that negotiations with Ukraine were impossible as long as Ukraine's Western-backed President Volodymyr Zelensky was in power....
Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Friday he had a phone call with Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and reaffirmed his willingness to establish peace talks with both sides of the war in Ukraine....
Pope Francis has said an eventual return by Russia of occupied territories in Ukraine is a "political problem" to be resolved by both sides, in his first public comment on Ukraine's request for him to back its plan demanding a total Russian withdrawal....
A total of 106 Ukrainian prisoners of war have been released in another major exchange with Russia....
To Stewart Rhodes, his conviction for leading the far-right Oath Keepers militia in the 6 January 2021 assault on the US Capitol made him America's premier political prisoner - the equivalent of Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn....
Ukraine secured the release of 106 captured soldiers in a prisoner exchange with Russia on Thursday, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy's chief of staff said....
Tokyo says Russian ‘intelligence-gathering’ aircraft spotted near its coasts along the Pacific Ocean and Sea of Japan....
A drone attack on the Kremlin was probably orchestrated by one of Ukraine’s special military or intelligence units, assessments by US spy agencies show, the New York Times has said....
Germany suffered its first recession since the start of pandemic, extinguishing hopes that Europe’s top economy could escape such a fate after the war in Ukraine sent energy prices soaring....
One of Russia's top spy chiefs on Wednesday said the West had sown the seeds of its own destruction by turning away from what he called its core traditions and told it to "go to the devil" and stop interfering in global affairs....
The head of Russian mercenary group Wagner, Yevgeny Prigozhin, has said that around 10 000 prisoners he recruited to fight in Ukraine have been killed on the battlefield....
The Unbroken centre has treated more than 12 000 Ukrainians, including over 500 children, since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last year....
Taiwan's last known survivor of Japan's wartime sexual slavery has died at the age of 92, the island's foreign ministry said on Tuesday, calling the issue a "wound in human history"....
Russia said Tuesday that its armed forces had beaten back and then wiped out a group of militants and military hardware that were dispatched to its southern Belgorod region from Ukraine....
A UN Weather Agency report said the cost of climate-related disasters over the last 50 years is roughly $5.8 trillion, but there have been fewer deaths in recent years because of improvements in early warning systems....
Denmark would like to host a summit in July aimed at finding peace between Ukraine and Russia, but such a meeting would need engagement from India, China and Brazil, Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said on Monday....
KYIV, May 22 - A senior aide to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Kyiv had nothing to do with an armed operation in Russia's Belgorod region on Monday....
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Bakhmut was "not occupied" by Moscow, while the head of Russia's Wagner mercenary group insisted his fighters had taken control of the eastern city "to the last centimetre"....
Russia on Sunday accused G7 leaders of turning their summit in Japan into a "propaganda show" by inviting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and whipping up "anti-Russian and anti-Chinese hysteria"....
Russia has claimed to have fully captured Ukraine's Bakhmut, with President Vladimir Putin congratulating his troops and the mercenary Wagner Group for taking the largely levelled eastern city....
As countries across the region scramble to ensure they have enough resources to keep the lights on, international affairs may take a back seat....
German police have opened an investigation after a Russian journalist and an activist who participated in a Berlin conference reported health problems that suggested possible poisoning, the Welt am Sonntag has reported....
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky arrived in the Japanese city of Hiroshima on Saturday to meet leaders of the world's richest democracies and drum up support for the defence against Russia's invasion of his country....
Russia on Friday said it banned entry to 500 Americans, including former president Barack Obama, in response to sanctions imposed by Washington....
