Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin’s forces close in on key strategic city as ‘last battles’ rage - Kyiv says its military still holds on in northern part of Pokrovsk and is defending a smaller city nea

BEIJING, Feb 4 (Reuters) - China's President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin both hailed their ties during a video call on Wednesday held in the run-up to the fourth anniversary of Moscow's war in Ukraine.

UKRAINE has been accused by Russia of training an assassin in Kyiv and promising him £22,000 to kill one of Vladimir Putin’s top spy chiefs. Lyubomir Korba, 65, has allegedly

Zelenskyy says Ukraine will "take corresponding steps" as Trump says Putin agreed to stop bombing Ukrainian cities for a week.

The cap did reduce government oil revenues temporarily, especially after an EU ban on most Russian seaborne oil forced Russia to shift sales to China and India. But Russia built a “shadow fleet” of aging tankers operating beyond the reach of the cap, and revenues rose again.

Envoys from Russia and Ukraine are meeting in Abu Dhabi for U.S.-brokered talks aimed at ending the nearly four-year war

While the first trilateral talks between Ukraine, Russia and the U.S. are a milestone, the issue of territorial concessions remains the key sticking point

“Russia has to continue the war because this war is too big for Putin to fail.”

The recent peace talks in Abu Dhabi ended abruptly with Russia, Ukraine and the United States requiring just three hours to declare the latest round of negotiations concluded.

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

MOSCOW, Feb 5 (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin's envoy Kirill Dmitriev said on Thursday that there was progress and a positive movement forward in negotiations on peace in Ukraine, as delegations from Russia,