Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki again called on the EU to "very quickly give Ukraine candidate status".

NATO has already cleared that it does not want direct conflict with Russia and President Joe Biden has ruled out sending U.S. troops into Ukraine to fight.

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...

The White House said Monday that a US delegation held weekend talks in Venezuela with the government of President Nicolas Maduro that included a discussion of energy supplies as Washington looks for ways to reduce its imports of Russian oil. Venezuela's opposition also said it had met with the high-level...

Metals tycoon Oleg Deripaska from Russia has called for peace talks over Ukraine crisis "as soon as possible" between Russia and Ukraine.

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Western claims of an imminent Moscow invasion of Ukraine as a "provocation" as he began new crisis talks with US President Joe Biden. Washington on Friday issued its most dire warning yet that Russia had assembled enough forces to launch a serious assault.

Russia has now put in place 70 percent of the forces it would need for such an attack, US officials have said.

The veteran Turkish leader hopes mediation between Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky can avert a Russian offensive.

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...

Naftali took office in June, taking over from Benjamin Netanyahu who was in power for 12 straight years and had close ties with Putin. As he left for Sochi on Friday, Bennett said Israel's relations with Moscow are an "important element" of the country's foreign policy.

Turkey, a NATO member, defied US warnings in 2017 to buy the S-400 air defense system, a deal that the Western alliance fears will allow Russia to hone its skills at targeting the US and Western European aircraft. The US officials have reiterated that S-400 was "not compatible or operable...

The Russian leader hosted Erdogan at his Black Sea residence in the resort of Sochi