Russia and Ukraine on Wednesday announced their largest prisoner swap of the conflict in a deal that was brokered by the UAE. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said 230 Ukrainians were freed in the deal, including 213 soldiers, 11 officers, and six civilians....
Russian President Vladimir Putin vowed on Monday to ramp up attacks on Ukraine in response to the Ukrainian strike on Russia's Belgorod Oblast. "They want to intimidate us and create uncertainty within our country. We will intensify strikes. Not a single crime against...
President Biden on Friday called again for Congress to approve more spending on the war in Ukraine, claiming that if Russian President Vladimir Putin is successful in its war, it could risk pulling the US into a direct confrontation with Russia. Biden made the...
The US and its European allies are quietly shifting their strategy in Ukraine from supporting Kyiv's unrealistic goal of driving Russian forces out to encouraging a defensive posture with future negotiations in mind, POLITICO reported on Wednesday, citing US and...
The Biden administration is quietly signaling its support for seizing more than $300 billion in frozen Russian central bank funds to use to fund Ukraine, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The central bank funds are held in the US, Europe, and Japan and were...
Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed President Biden's claim that Russia will attack NATO territory if it wins the war in Ukraine, calling the idea "nonsense." President Biden and officials in his administration have been claiming Russia will invade NATO...
Ukrainian officials speaking to media outlets on Friday claimed that the CIA-backed Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) blew up trains on railways deep inside eastern Russia. An anonymous Ukrainian official told POLITICO that several explosions were set off in Buryatia,...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov plans to attend a meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) from November 30 to December 1. To facilitate Lavrov's trip, Bulgaria and North Macedonia have agreed to temporarily suspend a ban on...
A US official has denied that the Biden administration is nudging Ukraine toward negotiations with Russia, saying it's up to Kyiv when to seek peace talks. The comments from James O'Brien, assistant secretary of state for Europe and Eurasian affairs, came in response...
Ukraine's CIA-backed military intelligence has taken credit for a car bombing that killed a politician in Russian-controlled eastern Ukraine on Wednesday. Mikhail Filiponenko, a member of the local Russian-backed legislature in Luhansk and former police chief, was...
