The father of a British man arrested in Kyiv and accused of spying for Russia has said the news is “hard to take in”.

“I might tell [Russia] that if the war is not settled that we may very well do it," he said. "We may not, but we may do it.”

Though many parties on the scene were receptive to a Ukraine peace deal, and even to stronger ties with Russia, the Poles, repeatedly dominated and even partitioned by Russia in recent centuries, remain extremely wary of making deals with Putin.

According to the map, most of western and central Russia—including Moscow—would have come within range, along with most of neighboring Belarus, a key Russian ally.

Notably, Russia got involved in the Syrian civil war in 2015 to support Iran's ally, former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, who was overthrown late last year. Russia granted Assad asylum after he was deposed. At the U.N.

Russia and Azerbaijan are at odds over how to carry out investigations moving forward, however.

China is supplying weapons to Russia—and now, Russia is reportedly planning to train Chinese troops using lessons from the war in Ukraine. What’s really behind this deepening military alliance?

–Russia diplomatic contacts that have so far failed to put an end to the Ukraine war.

Zelenskyy added that Ukraine had agreed to a U.S. cease-fire proposal 45 days ago and made “a direct proposal” to Russia to halt strikes on civilian targets, but was rejected by Russia.

In a Dec. 25 social media post, Ukrainian defense official Andriy Kovalenko accused Russia of failing to close its airspace over Grozny.

Russia is prepared to mediate the ongoing hostilities between Israel and Iran and to deal with Tehran's uranium, the Kremlin said on Monday.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy vowed on Saturday that Ukraine will not cede any of its territories to Russia as part of a potential peace deal with Moscow.

The warning comes after the president imposed 25 percent additional tariffs on India, another key buyer of Russian energy.

–Russia relationship and to rebuild their diplomatic missions on each other’s soil.

President Donald Trump said on Aug. 6 that there’s a “very good chance” of a summit to end the Russia–Ukraine conflict.

The agreement was witnessed—but not guaranteed—by the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Russia.

support during a negotiation with Russia.

The plans suggested that Beijing is considering two strategies regarding its relations with Russia, according to Yuan’s source.

Japan Downgrades Alert Following Russia, Japan was next to be impacted by the tsunami between 10 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. local time, almost 1.5 hours after the quake was felt in Russia.

Europe's roads, railways, and bridges are ill-suited for moving tanks, troops, and other military matériel in the event of a land war with Russia, the European Union’s transport chief said in an interview published Tuesday.

Russia has accused Ukraine of preventing a deal from being reached in peace talks.

“If they do not want a substantive discussion,” he said, “then Russia will liberate its historical lands on the battlefield.”

North Korea has sent thousands of its troops to Russia to support Moscow.

The territories Russia seeks to control include Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk, and Zaporizhia, which Putin claimed to have annexed in 2022 but which Russia still does not completely control.

Since the Russia Sanctions Act came into force in March 2022, New Zealand has imposed sanctions on more than 1,900 individuals, entities, and vessels, alongside a range of trade measures. This is the country's 33rd round of sanctions against Russia.

"They knew it would promote this contrived narrative that Russia interfered in the 2016 election to help President Trump win, selling it to the American people as though it were true. It wasn't."

Of the remaining channels, more than 2,000 were linked to Russia or Russian entities and shared content in multiple languages. The channels supported Russia and criticized Ukraine, NATO, and other Western countries.

“We have bots from Russia, China, all over the world, that are trying to instill disinformation and encourage violence.”

A wave of Ukrainian drone attacks on targets inside western Russia briefly impacted air travel in Moscow and paralyzed rail transport in the Rostov region.

President Donald Trump to discuss an end to the Russia-Ukraine war.