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. 

The body of Ukrainian journalist Victoria Roshchyna, who died in Russian captivity last September, has been returned to Ukraine, Deputy Interior Minister Leonid Tymchenko said in an interview with the Ukrainian outlet Censor.net published on Thursday.

The Russian government declared 2024 the Year of the Family. In practice, this meant tighter restrictions on reproductive rights, including limiting access to certain emergency contraceptives, outlawing so-called “childfree propaganda,” and sending priests…

Despite massive military spending, tens of thousands of deaths, and a vast array of international sanctions, Russians’ sense of stability and life satisfaction has reached its highest level in the past decade, according to a new study by the Bank of Finland’s…

In Krasnodar, Russia, around one hundred soldiers detained on suspicion of desertion staged a riot in a bold escape attempt last week. Seven managed to break free — four were quickly recaptured, and three remain at large. RFE/RL’s Kavkaz.Realii looked into…