NATO's top military officer has said Russia's armed forces are incapable of any major advance.
"The Russians don't have the numbers necessary to do a strategic breakthrough," NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe Christopher Cavoli told reporters (...)
In a recurring nightmare, horrors usually repeat themselves. For the Ukrainian border town of Vovchansk, they're getting worse.
Every street seems aflame. The shelling is constant. Torn up tanks and Humvees litter its streets. Small arms fire can be (...)
A massive Ukrainian drone attack on Crimea early Friday caused power cutoffs in the city of Sevastopol and set a refinery ablaze in southern Russia, Russian authorities said.
The drone raids marked an attempt to strike back during Moscow's renewed (...)
Russia is currently not seeking to capture Ukraine's second-largest city of Kharkiv, President Vladimir Putin has claimed.
"There are no such plans today," he said at the end of his visit to China.
But he stressed that Russian forces were advancing (...)
Ukraine has pulled back its troops from several villages in the border region of Kharkiv following continued pressure from Russian forces.
Soldiers had come under heavy fire and moved to "more advantageous positions" in two areas of the northeastern (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping will welcome Vladimir Putin to China on Thursday for the Russian president's second visit in less than a year – the latest sign of their growing alignment amid hardening global fault lines as conflict devastates Gaza and (...)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has removed his long-standing ally Sergei Shoigu as defense minister, the Kremlin has announced.
The 68-year-old has been in the role since 2012 and is to be appointed secretary of Russia's Security Council.
Papers (...)
Russia is claiming its forces have entered the north-eastern border town of Vovchansk, near Ukraine's second largest city Kharkiv.
Ukraine says there is still heavy fighting taking place there.
Russia has intensified its attacks on the region (...)
The annual Red Square military parade felt different this time round.
And not just because of the spring snowstorm.
There were 9,000 people marching across the square. Sounds a lot. But in previous years – before Russia's invasion of Ukraine – the (...)
Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Hungary on Wednesday, marking the end of his five-day European tour.
His visit is set to solidify numerous agreements with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, further strengthening China's regional economic (...)
He could probably have walked it blindfolded.
For the fifth time Vladimir Putin took the long walk through the Grand Kremlin Palace to the St Andrew's Throne Hall. There he took the oath of office and was sworn in as Russia's president for a new (...)
China's President Xi Jinping has said his country is willing to work with France toward a global "cessation of war" during the upcoming Paris Olympics.
At a press conference in Paris, Xi said China has been playing an "active role in achieving (...)
The US has accused Russia of deploying chemical weapons as a "method of warfare" in Ukraine, in violation of international laws banning their use.
State Department officials said Russia used the choking agent chloropicrin to win "battlefield gains" (...)
Thousands of people in Georgia have again taken to the streets of the capital Tbilisi to protest against the controversial foreign influence transparency law.
The divisive draft law requires media and non-commercial organizations to register as (...)
Ukraine's commander-in-chief has said the situation on the frontline has worsened in the face of multiple Russian attacks.
Gen. Oleksandr Syrskyi said Ukrainian forces had withdrawn from positions in the eastern Donetsk region.
Russia is trying to (...)
Chinese leader Xi Jinping said the US and China should be "partners rather than adversaries" as he met with top American diplomat Antony Blinken in Beijing's cavernous Great Hall of the People on Friday.
The meeting, which took place on the final (...)
Russia on Wednesday vetoed a United Nations resolution that proposed a ban on the use of nuclear weapons in outer space amid US intelligence-backed concerns that Moscow is trying to develop a nuclear device capable of destroying satellites.
Russian (...)
A Russian attack on NATO would end in defeat for Moscow, but NATO must increase its defenses, Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski told parliament on Thursday.
Sikorski was describing the new foreign policy direction of Prime Minister Donald (...)
A Russian deputy defense minister has been accused of taking bribes and remanded in custody by a court in Moscow.
Timur Ivanov, who denies the charges, is accused of accepting bribes "on a particularly large scale".
Appointed to the defense ministry (...)
The Biden administration is preparing a new aid package for Ukraine that is expected to be worth around $1 billion, multiple sources familiar with the matter told CNN, and is set to be approved by President Joe Biden after the Senate passes a new (...)
Ukraine says it shot down a strategic Russian bomber on Friday, but Russia claims the plane crashed in a sparsely populated area due to malfunction.
Ukraine has said it shot down a Russian bomber on Friday.
However, Moscow officials said the plane (...)
It is being called Austria's biggest espionage scandal for decades, which began with the arrest of a former domestic security official and has led to a raft of allegations and accusations.
Egisto Ott, 61, was detained at the end of March on (...)
The Croatian Democratic Union won parliamentary elections on Wednesday, however they will need support from the far right to stay in power.
Croatia's governing conservatives won a sharply competitive election on Wednesday, according to the official (...)
Russia's military death toll in Ukraine has now passed the 50,000 mark, the BBC can confirm.
In the second 12 months on the front line — as Moscow pushed its so-called meat grinder strategy — BBC found the body count was nearly 25% higher than in (...)
The European Union will "start the necessary work" to hit Iran with heavier sanctions after Saturday's aerial attack on Israel, the bloc's top diplomat has said.
Speaking following an exceptional virtual meeting of EU foreign ministers on Tuesday, (...)