The announcement came on the 70th day of Moscow's military action in the pro-Western country.

The European Union warned member states Monday to prepare for a possible complete breakdown in gas supplies from Russia, insisting it would not cede to Moscow's demand that imports be paid for in rubles. The European Commission will on Tuesday propose to member states a new package of sanctions to...

Turkey hosted a meeting between Moscow and Kyiv negotiators in Istanbul and another between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and Ukrainian counterpart Dmytro Kuleba in Antalya in March. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is now trying to pave the way for an Istanbul summit between Russian President Vladimir Putin and...

Russia's foreign minister urged the US and NATO to stop supplying Kyiv with arms if they are "really interested in resolving the Ukraine crisis", Chinese state media reported Saturday. Months into an invasion that failed in its short-term aim of capturing Kyiv, Moscow is now intensifying operations in Ukraine's eastern...

Turkey has been trying to negotiate an end to the conflict between the two countries, hosting meetings between Russian and Ukrainian negotiators in its capital Istanbul, as well as a summit between the two countries' foreign ministers in Antalya.

Russian forces, which withdrew from around Kyiv and the north of Ukraine earlier this month after being frustrated in their attempts to take over the capital, already occupy much of the eastern Donbas region and the south.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres will meet with President Volodymyr Zelensky in Ukraine next week after a stop in Moscow to confer with President Vladimir Putin about the war, the UN said Friday. Guterres will see Zelensky and Ukraine's foreign minister on Thursday, two days after visiting Moscow, the United...

After a historic collapse in the wake of Russia's military offensive in Ukraine, the ruble has staged a spectacular bounceback, supported by strict capital controls and energy exports. Four days after President Vladimir Putin sent troops into the pro-Western country, the central bank more than doubled its key interest rate...

The European Union on Thursday said it had approved an embargo on Russian coal and the closing of the bloc's ports to Russian vessels over the Ukraine war. An official from the French presidency of the European Council said the moves spearhead a "very substantial" fifth round of sanctions against...

More than 11 million people in Ukraine have been displaced since Russia invaded on February 24, aiming to seize the capital Kyiv. With that goal thwarted, it is instead trying to create a land link between occupied Crimea and Moscow-backed separatist statelets in Donbas.

Peace talks between Kyiv and Moscow resumed via video amid evacuations from Ukraine, but the Kremlin warned that what it described as a helicopter attack on a fuel depot would hamper the negotiations. The airstrike hit energy giant Rosneft's fuel storage facility in Belgorod, around 40 kilometers from the border...

Instead of being behind a camera, the winner of the EU's Sakharov rights prize has signed up as a territorial defense volunteer to fight back Moscow's invasion.

Dozens of Western countries have banned Russian planes from their airspace while some carriers operating flights to Russia have had their insurance policies cancelled.

The move comes after Facebook and Twitter were blocked in early March as part of sweeping efforts by Moscow to control information available to Russians.

Russia and Ukraine were set for a new round of talks Monday as Moscow's invading forces maintain their devastating assaults across the former Soviet state. The discussions come as Russian troops edge closer to Kyiv and keep up their relentless bombardment of the besieged southern port city of Mariupol, where...

Qatar's foreign minister headed for Moscow on Sunday for talks on Russia's obstruction of a new Iran nuclear deal and on the Ukraine conflict, a source with knowledge of the visit said.

US State Department spokesman Ned Price has said the US has announced a pause on nuclear negotiation with Iran, and that 'there is very little time remaining' to save the nuclear accord.

Russia on Thursday accused the United States of funding research into the development of biological weapons in Ukraine.

Russia's offer of "humanitarian corridors" for civilians to flee the Ukrainian cities it has besieged is a well-tried approach Moscow adopted during Syria's devastating civil war.

Several of these companies, symbols of American cultural influence in the world, have been the subject of boycott calls on social media.

The United States led a Western assault on Moscow's economic lifeline Tuesday, banning imports of Russian oil as civilians fled besieged Ukrainian cities in a desperate evacuation push blighted by Russian shelling. President Joe Biden heralded the US embargo as a hit on "the main artery of Russia's economy" targeting...

Russia planned to open humanitarian corridors in Ukraine Tuesday for civilians to flee besieged cities, but Kyiv insisted the move was a publicity stunt and people would not be able to escape. Moscow's offer to evacuate residents was condemned because most of the routes led into Russia or its ally...

People from Ukraine have posted videos showing the success of their forces, and they have become viral.

Russian troops attacked Europe's largest nuclear plant on Friday, starting a fire at the Ukrainian facility, with the country's leader accusing Moscow of "nuclear terror". Local authorities reported no immediate radiation rise was detected and "essential" equipment was unaffected by the fire, but it remained unclear what the invading forces...

"The (Russian) occupiers are in all parts of the city and are very dangerous," Gennady Lakhuta, head of the regional administration, wrote on messaging service Telegram.

"Show Turkey the same sensitivity that we are witnessing towards Ukraine," Erdogan said at a press conference in Ankara.

Facebook's parent Meta said it would be restricting access in the European Union to RT and Sputnik.

Saudi Arabia confirmed its commitment to the OPEC+ agreement with Russia Sunday, the Saudi Press Agency reported, as Moscow faces international criticism over its invasion of Ukraine. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made the comments during a conversation with French President Emmanuel Macron that also covered the situation in Ukraine...

Choosing sides in Ukraine's crisis would have once been easy for Gulf states long protected by the US, but growing ties with Moscow are forcing them to strike a balance. As the world rushed to condemn the Russian invasion of its smaller neighbour, the wealthy Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries,...

"The principles of the UN Charter are not an a la carte menu.... Member States have accepted them all and they must apply them all," Guterres told reporters.

Western powers reacted swiftly to Monday's decision by Russian President Vladimir Putin to recognise the independence of the two self-proclaimed republics in eastern Ukraine, condemning Moscow and calling for sanctions. US Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield heaped scorn on Putin's assertion that the Russian troops would take on a "peacekeeping" role.

Ukraine and Russia called for intensified diplomatic efforts Sunday to avert all-out war, each blaming the other for a sharp escalation in shelling on the front line separating Kyiv's forces from Moscow-backed separatists. After separate calls with France's President Emmanuel Macron, both Russian leader Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky...

While not verified, the claims by Russia provided some much-needed relief for investors, who had grown increasingly fearful of a conflict in Eastern Europe.

During a meeting in Damascus, Shoigu "informed the Syrian president about the exercises of the Russian navy in the eastern Mediterranean."

Europe's poorest country Ukraine's corruption-plagued economy has suffered from increased tensions over the possibility of an invasion by Russia.

"The foreign ministry also recommends that Israeli citizens planning to come to Ukraine consider refraining from doing so at this time," the ministry said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will host his Iranian counterpart Ebrahim Raisi in Moscow on Wednesday, the Kremlin said, amid talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal. The meeting will be Raisi's most important official visit abroad since he took office, and the first visit by an Iranian president to Russia since...

The tracks have been abandoned to birds and stray dogs at the last Turkish train stop before the Armenian border, shuttered for three decades by a history of bloody feuds. But a rare ray of hope is shining across the snow-capped mountains towering over Turkey's northeastern edge.

Air Arabia has been named as the most punctual airline in 2021 at Moscow Domodedovo Airport in the category of “Foreign Airlines with more than seven flights per week”, local media reports said. The airport announced the winners with the goal of further enhancing the quality of passenger service. The...

The regulator said Google, Meta had "ignored multiple demands”

The fine was for repeatedly failing to delete ‘illegal’ content.

The total foreign trade between Russia and the UAE is set to reach around $4 billion by the end of this year, said Sergey Cherimin, Minister of the Government of Moscow. Local media reports said that in 2020, the trade between the two countries amounted to $3.3 billion. Chermin told...

Turkey's initial purchase of S-400s from Russia soured relations with the US and its NATO allies