Western politicians have repeatedly called on China to limit or cease tacit support for Russia’s bloody war against Ukraine.

Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Trump has raised the possibility of tightening sanctions on Russia, though his administration has also repeatedly embraced Kremlin positions on the conflict, including indicating that Ukraine’s ...

LONDON -- Several Ukrainian drones were intercepted and destroyed over Moscow and the Moscow region overnight, with some coming as close as two miles away from the Kremlin, Russian officials said.

President Donald Trump’s special envoy for Ukraine and Russia was excluded from high-level talks on ending the war after the Kremlin said it didn't want him there, a U.S. administration official ...

Photo /Getty Images Hours after US President Donald Trump’s Russia envoy, Steve Witkoff, flew out of Moscow, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov portrayed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s ...

The Kremlin has sent off a list of demands for a peace deal in Ukraine — even as European intelligence agencies warned Russian strongman Vladimir Putin may just be playing for time and trying to ...

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The Kremlin kept Donald Trump's special envoy waiting for eight hours before he left just hours later, in a 'classic Putin power play'. Mr Trump's chief negotiator Steve Witkoff spent two thirds ...

According to the report, which cites intelligence gathered this month, the Kremlin believe that the former real estate magnate is weak, lacks a core set of principles and may be open to manipulation.