Vladimir Putin was dealt a blow with Ukraine's incursion into Russia's Kursk oblast but his forces ended the year with momentum in the Donbas.

Activity at three airports were restricted Saturday after six Ukrainian drones struck deep inside Russia in the city of Kazan, the Russian authorities said.

Even though the EU sanctions Russian oil, Bulgaria still allows crude to be processed at the Lukoil Burgas refinery. An investigation by Ukrainian journalist Mykhailo Tkach, working for the Ukrainska Pravda, shows that Lukoils Bulgarian Burgas refinery is still processing Russian crude. The volumes are being transported by Russias shadow fleet and transshipped offshore near the coast of Bulg...

Amid the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war, tensions between the military alliance, which supports Kyiv in its defense efforts, and the Kremlin have continued.

Lawmakers in Russia have targeted so-called nontraditional lifestyles as they seek to tackle falling birthrates and a spike in divorces.

A Ukrainian brigade said it required no infantry to destroy Russian positions in an operation in the Kharkiv region.

Video shows drones hitting Kazan, the capital of Russia's Tatarstan republic on Saturday.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has sought to project an image of economic strength while prosecuting the war in Ukraine, as if he could easily outlast the West’s efforts to counter his aggression. If President-elect Donald Trump and other Western leaders want to negotiate a prudent peace deal, they shouldn’t buy it.

With one of the highest divorce rates in the world, Russia's family dynamics are coming to the fore in politics.

Ukraine has brought the war into the heart of Russia with drone attacks that Russian authorities said damaged residential buildings in the city of Kazan, some 600 miles from the front line

Ukrainian soldiers are struggling to stabilize defensive lines near the city of Pokrovsk, in the country's east, against Russia's much larger advancing army. We go to the front lines of Pokrovsk, to see how the fight is playing out. Support our non-profit journalism by joining NPR+

Vladimir Putins end-of-year Q&A session with reporters and the public is billed as a chance for Russian citizens to ask the president about the issues that matter to them most. But while much of the televised marathon focuses on domestic affairs, Putin always uses it to send signals to the West and the rest of the world, too. This year, Putins messaging was colored by expectations that U.S. ...

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The U.S. military killed an ISIS leader and another member in an airstrike in Syria on Thursday, the Pentagon revealed Friday. U.S. Central Command Forces targeted Abu Yusif, also known as Mahmud, in the Dayr az Zawr Province, an area formerly controlled by the toppled regime of Bashar al-Assad and Russian fighters, the command said...

Over a month has passed since Donald Trumps election, and the war in Ukraine is escalating instead of ending. Various unverified proposals for negotiations have been floated to the press by the United States, Russia, and Ukraine, with little overlap be...

With credit for time served, Alexandre Romero-Arata, 28, will serve an additional two years and six months for the crash that killed a young Irish man.