Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday held a call with his Russian counterpart, Sergey Lavrov, to discuss Evan Gershkovich, a reporter for The Wall Street Journal and US citizen who was detained in Russia last week over spying allegations. According to a State...
The Turkish parliament on Thursday unanimously ratified Finland's NATO membership, clearing the final hurdle to Helsinki joining the Western military alliance. Finland's ascension into NATO significantly expands the alliance's territory on Russia's border, as the...
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov said Thursday that Russia will continue notifying the US of its missile tests despite its suspension of New START, the last nuclear arms control treaty remaining between Washington and Moscow. Earlier this week, the US...
Moscow announced that it downed for the first time a longer-range rocket that the US has provided to Ukrainian forces. The Russian Defense Ministry said it downed a Ground Launched Small Diameter Bomb (GLSDB), a munition made by Boeing that can hit targets up to 94...
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told The Associated Press on Wednesday that if the Donbas city of Bakhmut falls to Russia, he would be pressured to "compromise" with Moscow. "Our society will feel tired" if the Russians win in Bakhmut, Zelensky said. "Our...
The UN Security Council voted Monday against a Russian effort to get an independent investigation into the bombings of the Nord Stream natural gas pipelines that connect Russia to Germany. The only members of the Council that voted in favor of the resolution were...
Nikolay Patrushev, the secretary of the Russian Security Council, warned Monday that Moscow possesses weapons capable of wiping out an enemy, including the United States. "Russia is patient and does not intimidate anyone with its military advantage However, it...
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Saturday that Moscow will deploy tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus at the request of Minsk. Announcing the decision, Putin compared the move to NATO's nuclear sharing program, under which there are US nuclear weapons deployed to...
Ukrainian officials have said the International Criminal Court's (ICC) arrest warrant that was issued last week for Russian President Vladimir Putin has made negotiations with the Russian leader impossible. Mykhailo Podolyak, an advisor to Ukrainian President...
Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh published an article on Substack on Wednesday that said the CIA was instructed to come up with a cover story for the Nord Stream bombings that was fed to The New York Times and the German newspaper Die Zeit. The cover-up story...
