By Ivan Nechepurenko The Russian authorities detained a former governor of the Kursk region and accused him on Wednesday of embezzling millions meant to build defenses for the region, which was ...

Russia will be absent from the 2025 World Figure Skating Championships due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. Some Russian figure skaters have switched nationalities to continue competing internationally.

A Ukrainian rocket attack killed six people, including three Russian state media workers, in eastern Ukraine’s Russian-occupied Luhansk region, according to Russian news organisations and officials.

Ukrainian forces have responded to Russian efforts to expel them from one part of Russian territory by launching a large number of attacks on another border area, using drones, artillery and troops.

There is little appetite in Ukraine and Russia for major concessions, according to a U.S. firm’s analysis of online posts. But a minority of Russians want to keep fighting until Ukraine’s ...

Servicemen of the 39th Separate Coastal Defence Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces fire a 2S1 Gvozdika self-propelled howitzer towards Russian troops at a front line, in the Kherson region ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin said his nation will soon overwhelm and destroy the Ukrainian military, and suggested the United Nations take control of the country if the war ends. Putin made ...

A United States delegation met Monday with Kremlin negotiators in Saudi Arabia, where the Trump administration is pushing for progress toward a ceasefire in separate talks with Russia and Ukraine ...

A mother, father and daughter have been killed and 12 people injured in a Russian drone attack on the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia, Ukrainian officials said. Zaporizhzhia was hit by 12 drones on ...

Russia has lost about 3,800 tanks since 2022, compared with about 1,100 for Ukraine, per Oryx estimates. In Kursk, Russian tank losses are nearly equal to those of Ukraine, challenging Kyiv's ...

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 ...