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Finland’s government will reopen two out of eight border crossing points with Russia later this week, officials said Tuesday.

U.S. defense leaders fawned over Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Monday during his visit to the Pentagon’s National Defense University, as he pitched for more U.S. taxpayer aid to Ukraine.

The whereabouts of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny were unknown Monday, the politiician’s official spokeswoman said.

Two Royal Navy minehunter ships are to be transferred to Ukraine in an effort to strengthen the country’s ability to safeguard its shipping, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Monday.

Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) said Sunday on CNN’s “State of the Union” that the threats Russian President Vladimir Putin would invade NATO countries if he won in Ukraine was “preposterous.”

Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose forces have targeted civilians in Ukraine and laid waste to large portions of that country, criticized the humanitarian situation in Gaza in a call Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky flew to Buenos Aires on Sunday so he can personally be on hand and applaud when Argentina’s new president, Javier Milei, is sworn in.

President Vladimir Putin isn’t going anywhere — at least in political terms. Russian state media said Friday he has announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election which he is all but certain to win.

A German research body that tracks donations to Ukraine says the value of pledges fell almost 90 per cent between Autumn 2022 and 2023.

WNBA star Brittney Griner has given Disney exclusive rights to tell her Russia imprisonment story in a documentary for ESPN. 

President Joe Biden echoed the warnings of his defense secretary in an address to the public this week, saying if Congress does not pass $64 billion in aid to Ukraine, U.S. troops will end up fighting Russia in Europe.

Lech Walesa, Poland’s 80-year-old former president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said Thursday that he is improving.

Russian hackers are “selectively” leaking material obtained by hackingto “undermine trust in politics”, the UK government has asserted. 

Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman gave Russian strongman Vladimir Putin a warm welcome to Riyadh on Wednesday, proclaiming him a “cherished guest” of the country and signing a variety of agreements on space, sports, investment, energy, defense, and tourism, among other subjects.

A host of actors were tricked by internet propagandists into making videos that were later used to attack Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

Ilya Kiva, a Member of Parliament until the crackdown on opposition parties, was shot in the head in an assassination claimed by Kyiv.

NATO has chance to discourage Russia from attacking a member state if it can show it is ready to fight back within a three years, says Poland.

Defense cooperation agreement with Washington will allow the U.S. access to all of the military bases across the Scandinavian country.

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin warned Congress on Tuesday during a private briefing that if they do not pass more aid to Ukraine, it would “very likely” lead to U.S. troops fighting a war in Europe.

Security threats “more complex… evolving” and people accustomed to a digital world should be prepared to survive in analogue one, UK warns.

The troubled Middle East is about to have a new diplomatic player on the ground with the Kremlin announcing Russia President Vladimir Putin will on Wednesday travel to the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned the West should prepare for “bad news” from Ukraine following the failed counteroffensive.

The White House warned Monday that U.S. funds for Ukraine will run dry by the end of the year, bluntly declaring a failure by Congress to approve new support would “kneecap” Kyiv and hinder efforts to deliver more lethal aid from U.S. reserves.

Ukrainian officials blocked former President Petro Poroshenko from leaving the country to meet with Hungarian PM Viktor Orbán over an alleged Kremlin plot.

Imprisoned opposition leader and longtime Kremlin foe Alexei Navalny has been handed new charges by Russian prosecutors.

Volodymyr Zelensky has again expressed his displeasure with the volume of Western weapons flowing into his country.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky told the Associated Press in an interview published Friday that “only the blind” cannot see that his country has lost attention and support following the Hamas atrocities against Israel on October 7, which prompted an ongoing war to eradicate the terrorist organization.

Russian missiles tore through apartment buildings in eastern Ukraine´s Donetsk region, local officials said Thursday.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “The Story,” Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) argued that “the best way for us to put pressure on Iran is to put pressure on Russia by passing the full supplemental” spending package and

The communist propaganda outlet of North Korea claimed on Tuesday that an alleged surveillance satellite launched on November 21 had already taken photos of several sensitive American military sites and the White House.

The foreign ministers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said they “deeply regret the decision enabling the personal participation” of Lavrov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday signed a national budget for the next three years that increases spending by around 25%.

Politico Europe upset supporters of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky by calling him Europe’s “most powerful” leader in 2023 because he has convinced people “that his battle against Russia is also theirs,” which has given him the “authority to make Europe do what he wants.”

The aunt of Roni Krivoi, 25, a Russian-Israeli who was one of the hostages released Sunday by Hamas terrorists, told an Israeli radio station Monday that he had escaped and hidden for four days in Gaza before being caught again by Palestinian civilians.

Russia launched its most intense drone attack on Ukraine since the beginning of its full-scale invasion in 2022, military officials said.

EU border agency sending officers and equipment to Finland to help amid suspicion that Russia is behind an influx of migrants.