One Russian newspaper reported that "the break has snapped on the ruble."

Overnight, Russia carried out a horrific aerial attack against Ukraine. Ukrainian authorities report that Russia launched nearly 200 missiles and drones against Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure, depriving Ukrainian civilians of access to electricity. This attack is outrageous and serves as yet another reminder of the urgency and importance of supporting the Ukrainian people in…

China and Russia have agreed to cooperate more deeply in developing Arctic shipping routes amid deteriorating conditions between both countries and the West. The two countries will jointly develop the Northern Sea Route which spans 5,600km (3,500 miles) from the Barents Sea near Scandinavia, Chinese media have reported. Last month, two Chinese heavy-lift vessels key to commissioning the seco...

Ocean Leonid Investments Ltd, a hedge fund linked to secretive Iranian oil trader Hossein Shamkhani, has informed its London employees that it will go into liquidation, Bloomberg has reported. The development comes just months after the UK government cracked down on the oil-trading kingpins empire, known for moving Iranian and Russian crude around the world. Previously, Bloomberg reported t...

President-elect Donald Trump has selected retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg for the new role of special envoy for Ukraine and Russia. In Trump’s first administration, Kellogg was chief of staff for the White House National Security Council. NTD discusses the pick with Kervin Aucoin, a former lead intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance coordinator for the U.S. […]

The Russian military launched a major missile and drone attack on Ukraine early Thursday, leaving hundreds of thousands of homes and businesses without electrical power.

KYIV, Ukraine Russia conducted a massive attack against Ukraines energy infrastructure on Thursday, firing nearly 200 missiles and drones and leaving more than a million households without power, Ukrainian officials said.

President Vladimir Putin warned that his forces could strike “decision-making centers” in the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv with new ballistic missiles as retaliation for attacks on Russia using Western missiles. “The Defense Ministry and the General Staff are selecting targets to hit on Ukrainian territory,” Putin said during a regional security meeting in Kazakhstan’s c...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has threatened to use the Kremlin's new hypersonic ballistic missile to hit Ukraine's "decision-making centers" as the latest retaliation for the use of American long-range weapons.

Dmitry Medvedev said Russia could strike NATO military bases in Romania and Poland if Ukraine keeps on using long-range weapons.

Russia unleashed a "massive" attack on Ukraines infrastructure on November 28, leaving more than 1 million people without power in freezing temperatures across the country. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia of a "despicable escalation," as the Interior Ministry recorded damage to infrastructure in nine regions. Russian President Vladimir Putin claimed that the latest attack...

The Ukrainian Ministry of Defense has said that it destroyed $5 million of Russian radar equipment in an attack near Crimea.

Worth a fraction of a penny now, the ruble has fallen to lows not seen since March 2022 in the early days of the war against Ukraine.

During the 1990s, hawkish neoconservatives hoped that then-Russian President Boris Yeltsin would enable post-Soviet Union Russia to transition into a full-fledged democracy. But neocons were bitterly disappointed when Yeltsin's far-right successor, Vladimir Put...

Vladimir Putin was greeted with a display of a Ukrainian flag while visiting Kazakhstan for a summit where he is expected to discuss the war in Ukraine.

A prominent pro-Russian military blogger says that Pyongyang's troops are in Kursk and are very capable.

A Russian strike on energy infrastructure in western Ukraine on Thursday left more than 1 million people without power, according to local officials. Electricity was knocked out for more than 500,000 households in the Lviv region due to the attack, according to regional Gov. Maksyn Kozytskyi. Rivne Gov. Oleksandr Koval said the strike also cut...

The deployment of North Korean troops to support Russia in the war with Ukraine, once speculative, is now confirmed. Russia has