Vladímir Putin

Budapest is maneuvering for concessions in the deal over the financial lifeline to Kyiv and has accused Brussels of ‘blackmail’

The investigation comes as Kyiv attempts to clamp down on corruption in a bid to speed up its membership in the European Union and NATO

Some of these women have started a channel on Telegram to call for the demobilization of their soldiers. Two months before the elections, this display of discontent is a headache for the Kremlin

The Defense Ministry says that only the crew was on board, and President Zelenskiy is demanding an international investigation

Ukrainian officials did not immediately confirm or deny Russia’s claims about the crash in Russia’s Belgorod border region, although they said they were looking into them

Moscow’s simultaneous attack with ballistic and cruise missiles from different regions has led to seven deaths and more than 60 injuries

Hungary’s Orbán, the only NATO ally not to have ratified Sweden’s accession, takes step toward breaking deadlock

Moscow agrees to strengthen its military cooperation with Niger while the Rosatom company commits to developing nuclear energy in Mali and Burkina Faso

Ukraine’s allies have recently sought to reassure the country that they are committed to its long-term defense amid concerns that Western support could be sagging

One of the few world leaders openly supporting Putin’s war on Ukraine, Kim has been actively boosting the visibility of his ties with Russia

A Russian court in Siberia has sentenced a man to 19 years in prison for shooting a military enlistment officer in an attack last September linked to the war in Ukraine

Top officials said that the exercises will show that the alliance can defend all of its territory up to its border with Russia

Sergey Lavrov argued that for such talks to be held, Washington first needs to revise its current hostile policy toward Russia

Kim Jong Un has been on a provocative run of weapons testing and threats that raised regional tensions to their highest point in years

The Ukrainian President described ‘the terrifying feeling that the war may never end.’ He also criticized a world that told him not to escalate tensions ahead of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022

Kyiv is torn between compulsory military service and targeted enlistment while the government, which estimates the number of recruits needed for the front at 500,000, has withdrawn a new mobilization law due to lack of consensus

Zelenskiy has presented a 10-point peace formula that, among other things, seeks the expulsion of all Russian forces from Ukraine and accountability for war crimes

The package, worth 2.5 billion pounds ($3.2 billion) over the next fiscal year, is the largest the U.K. has provided to Ukraine since the war began

Russia’s average monthly expenditure on imports of battlefield goods from January to October 2023 stood at $932 million, only 10% less than the Kremlin was spending before sanctions

Sergei Udaltsov is the leader of the Left Front, a group of political parties that oppose Putin and are affiliated with the Communist Party

The Kremlin has stepped up its offensive on the stronghold of the town, which it took with little effort in the opening stages of the invasion, but was recaptured by Ukraine’s army in September 2022

The Russian opposition leader was transferred in December to the ‘special regime’ penal colony in Kharp — the highest security level of prisons in Russia

How these questions are answered will determine whether new crises or opportunities present themselves this year

As Ukraine repels Russia’s invasion, drones have become essential due to their speed, price and manageability. Kyiv wants to manufacture a million of these devices in 2024

At a time when Western support seems to be wavering and Russia’s war against Ukraine has become a battle of attrition, the politician insists that support for Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s government is also support for democracy

Patriarch Kirill, leader of the Russian Orthodox Church, the world’s largest Orthodox denomination, led elaborate and well-attended services at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy has pledged to strike more targets on the Crimean Peninsula and inside Russian border regions this year