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Half of promised Western military aid to Kyiv is failing to be delivered on time, Ukrainian Defence Minister Rustem Umerov despaired on Sunday as he issued a call for benefactors to make haste to save his country from potential ruin.

On Friday’s “PBS NewsHour,” New York Times columnist David Brooks said that there should have been more clarity about the strategy in the Ukraine-Russia war that “time wasn’t on our side” because of Russia’s strategy of simply waging war for

Western leaders descended on Kyiv Saturday to mark the second anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

On Friday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Katy Tur Reports,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo said that “Russia will still have the ability to sell their oil” under the newest round of sanctions by the Biden administration and that they haven’t banned

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of CNN’s “Situation Room,” Senate Majority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) responded to a question on how the U.S. will keep Russia from evading the sanctions announced by President Joe Biden earlier in

On Friday’s broadcast of “CNN News Central,” former Defense Secretary Leon Panetta stated that Russia has managed to evade U.S. sanctions and continue to rake in large sums of oil and gas revenues, and so, we’re “going to have to

A group of more than eight hundred Russian Orthodox priests and church members wrote a letter demanding the release of Alexei Navalny’s body.

Russian forces threatened to shoot down Fflights patrolling last month in international airspace over the Black Sea, France said.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink stated that while specifically commenting on the Biden administration’s pause on approvals of new liquid natural gas (LNG) exports is outside her expertise, “we have

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bridget Brink discussed Russia’s detention of dual citizen Ksenia Karelina and responded to questions on whether Russia feels emboldened to take Americans hostage by stating that Ukraine

Russia will increase cooperation on “peaceful nuclear energy” with Venezuela, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said.

The Moscow City Court rejected an appeal from Evan Gershkovich, the American reporter detained on highly dubious espionage allegations.

Tucker Carlson said Boris Johnson demanded a million dollars for an interview after he accused the journalist of being a “stooge” for Putin.

Believed to have broken the car windows of the Interior Minister and a journalist in December, the Estonian Internal Security Service said.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov arrived in Havana on Monday, kicking off a tour of Latin America by condemning the United States for its “blackmail, ultimatums, threats” against Russia and Cuba.

Russia’s main security agency arrested a dual citizen of Russia and the United States alleging she committed high treason for donating funds to an appeal to help Ukraine.

A lack of foreign aid deliveries from Western allies makes life “very difficult” for Ukraine’s fighters, a despairing President Volodymyr Zelensky said late Monday.

A Russian pilot who defected to Ukraine with his helicopter was the victim of a shooting last week, Ukrainian media says.

Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly asked her Chinese counterpart Wang Yi to “help influence the Houthis to keep the Red Sea open.”

Monday on Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” Sen. Roger Marshall (R-KS) maintained the prescription for dealing with Russia as it pertained to Ukraine was a willingness to stand up to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian officials are reportedly refusing to release the body of opposition leader Alexei Navalny to his family after his sudden death in an Arctic prison camp on February 16.

Top Putin Ally warns West off a Ukrainian victory, warning that would lead to nuclear strikes on “Kiev, Berlin, London, Washington”.

Russia has invited over a dozen Palestinian factions to Moscow at the end of February for a summit aimed at producing a unified front as Hamas struggles to survive in the face of an Israeli counteroffensive following the October 7 terror attack.

Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, or Lula, caused outrage Sunday in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, by comparing Israel’s war against Hamas to the Holocaust, then defending Russian president Vladimir Putin in the death of opposition leader Alexei Navalny.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that after the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, it was time to designate Russia as a state sponsor of terrorism.

The $60 billion package of U.S. aid stuck in Congress wouldn’t “fundamentally change the reality” on the ground in Ukraine, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH) argued Sunday at an international security conference in Munich, Germany.

Over 400 people were detained in Russia while paying tribute to Putin critic Alexei Navalny, who died at an Arctic penal colony this week.

During an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-MD) acknowledged that sanctions against Russian energy are not being enforced as aggressively as they can and that Chinese entities are helping Russia evade sanctions. Co-host Annmarie Hordern asked, [relevant

The death of Alexei Navalny has become the latest rallying cry for more Ukraine aid to further the proxy war against Russia.

Ukraine’s military chief said Saturday he’s withdrawing troops from the city of Avdiivka after battling with Russian forces for four months.

During an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of NPR’s “Morning Edition,” National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan stated that the Biden administration has gotten Europe “to step up and do more” on the Russia-Ukraine war. Co-host Steve Inskeep asked, [relevant exchange

Hundreds of mourners gathered at monuments in cities across Russia on Friday to pay their respects to Alexei Navalny.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who reportedly died under murky circumstances in a brutal prison camp at the age of 47 on Friday, was a fierce critic of strongman Vladimir Putin and the corruption of the Russian elite.

The Russian government claimed on Friday that it had launched a “procedural investigation” into the announced death of Alexei Navalny, a longtime opponent of strongman Vladimir Putin’s regime and his political prisoner since 2021.

Russian prison service says Alexi Navalny “fainted and died quickly”, his death already being called a “political assassination”. 

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov is set to start a new tour in Latin America next week, including scheduled visits to Cuba and Venezuela before heading to Brazil for a G20 foreign minister meeting, the Russian state-run TASS news agency announced on Wednesday.