During talks in London on April 23, Washington and Kyiv reached an agreement on 22 specific conditions for a peaceful settlement of Russia’s war in Ukraine, U.S. special envoy Keith Kellogg said in an interview with Fox News on Wednesday.

On Wednesday, the U.S. and Ukraine signed an economic partnership agreement granting the U.S. preferential access to new natural resource extraction projects in Ukraine, including ones focused on aluminum, graphite, oil, and natural gas, Bloomberg reports.…

Volodymyr Zelensky imposed personal sanctions on Thursday against Oleksiy Arestovych, former advisor to the Ukrainian President's Office, who now lives outside of Ukraine.

Russian entrepreneurs who have taken over businesses in Ukraine’s occupied territories are exporting goods to Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Vietnam, India, and China, according to a new investigation by Pryazovia News, a regional branch of RFE/RL’s Ukrainian…

In 2003, Alexey Gvozdev’s music students were nominated for a Grammy and appeared on the television show “60 Minutes.” The group lost the Best Country Instrumental Award to the Dixie Chicks, but Bering Strait remains the only Russian band ever nominated in…

On April 30, pro-Kremlin outlets and self-styled “war correspondents” reported the arrest of Vitaliy Hura, the Russia-installed head of Nova Kakhovka, an occupied town in Ukraine’s Kherson region. Allegedly, Hura was jailed on criminal charges of “desecrating…

There is a significant divide between Russia and Ukraine’s positions on ending the war, and the White House will work to narrow that gap, U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance told Fox News in an interview about Donald Trump’s next 100 days in office.

The United States will no longer “fly around the world” to act as a mediator between Russia and Ukraine as part of a shift in Washington’s approach to peace negotiations, State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce said.

New U.S. and Western intelligence assessments suggest that Russian President Vladimir Putin may be shifting his focus in the war toward shorter-term goals, including consolidating control over Russian-occupied territories, CNN reported, citing multiple sources…

In a Russian town not far from Yekaterinburg, officials transformed a public square featuring a monument to Vladimir Lenin into a skate park — with the statue’s pedestal repurposed as a ramp. The project was commissioned by the local government, but after…

In April, Russia’s consumer watchdog declared the oil-polluted beaches of Krasnodar Krai unfit for recreation. With vacationers likely to seek out other coastal destinations, one of the most popular alternatives remains occupied Crimea. Drones still strike…

A foreword written by Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is raising concerns in Eastern Europe that Moscow is once again laying the groundwork to challenge a neighbor’s international borders. Lavrov’s preface appears in a monograph titled “The History…

Ukrainian blogger and volunteer Serhii Sternenko, the former head of the Odesa branch of the nationalist group Right Sector, said on Thursday that someone tried to kill him. Sternenko, who’s been raising money for drones for the Ukrainian Armed Forces since…

The state of press freedom worldwide has reached an “unprecedented, critical low” this year due to economic pressure, according to the annual World Press Freedom Index from Reporters Without Borders (RSF). According to the 2025 Index, the average country…

A military parade featuring young schoolchildren was held in Vladivostok, in Russia’s Far East, according to Oleg Kozhemyako, the governor of Primorsky Krai.

In an interview with NBC News, U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped for a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine but noted that the United States is currently close to an understanding with only one side in the conflict.

An explosion occurred in an apartment building in southwest Moscow on Sunday evening, followed by a fire that spread across two floors, local officials said.

Moscow police have called on residents to refrain from setting off fireworks ahead of Russia’s May 9 holiday, citing “a growing number of provocations involving their use,” the state news agency TASS reported.

There are no plans for President Vladimir Putin to travel to the Middle East in mid-May, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said, responding to a question from reporters about a possible meeting between Putin and U.S. President Donald Trump.

The Russian state-owned TV network Rossiya-1 has released a “documentary” by propagandist Pavel Zarubin titled “Russia. The Kremlin. Putin. 25 Years.” The 90-minute film features a series of interviews recorded at the Kremlin in the spring of 2025, intercut…