Russia’s Black Sea beaches in Anapa have been declared unfit for swimming following last December’s oil spill in the Kerch Strait. Four months on, oil continues to wash ashore, and piles of contaminated sand lie exposed outside the city — even as children…

Sources familiar with a meeting earlier this month between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, told The Financial Times on Tuesday that Russia’s president has offered to “halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line…

The Russian military launched an overnight drone attack on Marhanets in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region, according to Governor Serhii Lysak. Nine people were killed and 30 injured, he said, noting that the strike hit a bus carrying workers.

The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and Ukraine have postponed planned peace talks on ending Russia’s war in Ukraine that were scheduled to take place in London on April 23, Sky News reported.

At the planned talks with U.S. and European officials in London that were scheduled for Wednesday, Ukraine’s delegates wanted to discuss a 30-day ceasefire, not Trump’s proposed peace plan, according to new reporting from Axios.

The Council of Europe has finished drafting the concept for a special tribunal to prosecute Vladimir Putin and other top Russian officials over the war in Ukraine, Deutsche Welle reports. However, there’s still a long road ahead: the U.S. appears to have…

After Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, American luxury cars were supposed to be off-limits to sanctioned individuals like Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov. Western restrictions ban the import of vehicles worth more than $50,000. And yet, in…

More than a year into the invasion of Ukraine, in September 2023, Vladimir Putin declared that Russia had no need for foreign mercenaries. The nation’s homegrown supply of fighting men was more than enough, he explained. However, according to a new investigation…

Last week, during a meeting in Paris with Ukrainian and European officials, a U.S. delegation led by Secretary of State Marco Rubio put forward its proposal for ending Russia’s war in Ukraine. Now, Axios has reported the details of the plan, citing sources…

Russian lawmakers have drafted legislation that would ban advertising for “mystic practices, energy healing, and spiritual counseling.” A bill co-authored by Communist Party deputy Nina Ostanina, chair of the Duma’s Committee on Family, Fatherhood, Motherhood…

Russian federal regulators have imposed a one-year ban on new student admissions at the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences (better known as “Shaninka”), citing the school’s failure to comply with an official order to correct previously identified…

In an exchange of social media posts on Wednesday, Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky butted heads over the status of Crimea, the Ukrainian peninsula annexed by Moscow in 2024. The U.S. president accused his Ukrainian counterpart of “harming peace negotiations…

Russia launched an overnight drone and missile attack across Ukraine, according to Ukrainian Interior Minister Ihor Klymenko. In Kyiv, at least nine people were killed and around 70 others were injured in the strike. In the city’s Sviatoshynskyi district…

Donald Trump said he could meet with Vladimir Putin soon after his visit to Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates in mid-May.

The Trump administration is reportedly considering lifting sanctions on certain Russian energy projects in Europe, including the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline, Politico reported Wednesday, citing five sources familiar with the discussions.

Azerbaijan has extradited a Russian soldier accused of desertion at the request of Russia’s Prosecutor General’s Office, Azerbaijani officials reported on Thursday.

Russian forces launched a large-scale missile and drone attack on Kyiv on Wednesday night. The most severe damage occurred in the city’s Sviatoshynskyi district, where a residential building was struck. Debris from downed drones also fell in the Holosiivskyi…

Donald Trump is aggressively pushing his version of a peace plan that he claims could bring an end to the active phase of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The most contentious element of the U.S. president’s proposal is Washington’s recognition of Russian…

U.S. President Donald Trump published a social media post criticizing Russia’s Wednesday night deadly missile and drone attack on Ukraine.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (the SVR) has accused Meduza, the Navalny-founded Anti-Corruption Foundation, and the investigative media outlet Proekt of being involved in a “campaign to undermine the peacemaking efforts” of U.S. President Donald Trump.