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Russia's deputy foreign minister says all of Vladimir Putin's conditions for peace must be met if the US wants to end the war in Ukraine. Adding to the growing frenzy of commentary on a peace deal ...

When a supposed global superpower like Russia begs Iran for drones, turns to North Korea for artillery shells and watches its Black Sea fleet dismantled by a country without a navy, you know ...

Meanwhile, fighting appears to have escalated in the Russian region of Kursk. Follow the latest on the Ukraine war. Jack Lopresti, who was an MP for 14 years, is serving with the International ...

Russia's troops are slowly closing in on Ukraine's eastern city of Pokrovsk, seeking to gain control of the supply hub in a critical battle as the war nears the three-year mark. Ukrainian forces ...

But all of those options are either difficult to implement or wouldn't fix the flaws in Russia's military system. Focused for now on winning the war in Ukraine, the Kremlin is sticking to what it ...

US president Donald Trump said he has talked to Russian president Vladimir Putin on the phone to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine. In an interview aboard Air Force One on Friday, Mr Trump said ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The Ukrainian authorities are rounding up ...

Russia recognised Abkhazia and another breakaway region, South Ossetia, as independent states in 2008 after defeating Georgia in a five-day war. It maintains military bases in both regions and ...