The Russian Defense Ministry said Tuesday that Russian forces launched "retaliatory" strikes in southern Ukraine in response to the bombing of the Crimean Bridge by Ukrainian forces. Russia said the strikes were launched against targets in Odesa and Mykolaiv, and...
Russia announced Monday that it was suspending its participation in a deal that was signed last year to facilitate the export of grain from Ukraine's Black Sea ports. Another aspect of the deal was that the UN agreed to help remove obstacles to the export of Russian...
The Crimean Bridge that links Crimea to the Russian mainland was again targeted by Ukrainian forces in a bombing early Monday morning that killed two civilians and injured a child. Russian authorities said the Crimean Bridge, also known as the Kerch Bridge, was...
A senior Defense Intelligence Agency official has described the war in Ukraine as a "stalemate" and said none of the weapons the US and NATO are providing will help Ukrainian forces "break through" in their counteroffensive. “Certainly we are at a bit of a stalemate,"...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Sunday that Russia has a "sufficient" supply of cluster munitions to use if Ukraine employs the controversial weapons. The US has started shipping cluster bombs to Ukraine even though the weapons are notorious for killing and...
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Wednesday that Russia will view US-made F-16 fighter jets in Ukraine as a nuclear threat because they are capable of carrying nuclear weapons. "We have informed the nuclear powers, the United States, Britain and France, that...
Sergey Naryshkin, the head of Russia's Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), confirmed on Wednesday that he spoke with CIA Director William Burns after Yevgeny Prigozhin's short-lived rebellion. US media outlets reported at the end of June that Burns phoned Naryshkin to...
The White House said Tuesday that NATO membership for Ukraine isn't going to happen anytime soon since it would mean war with Russia. "Of course, they are at war right now. So, NATO membership in the immediate future isn't likely because that would put NATO at war...
A Kremlin spokesman said Monday that Russian President Vladimir Putin held a meeting with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin after his short-lived mutiny. Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the meeting took place on June 29 at the Kremlin and lasted three hours. The talks were...
Richard Haas, a former US diplomat and former President of the Council on Foreign Relations, has defended a meeting he held with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov that was first reported by NBC News last week. According to NBC, Hass and two other former US...
