Putin is attempting to use the prospect of negotiations to buy time and gain an upper hand in the war in Ukraine, even as he ...

Russian forces have captured hundreds of square miles of eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk region over the past year as part of their advance on the city of Pokrovsk.

Further reading: The Moscow Patriarchate is imploding, says Russia expert “The adoption of this bill would lead to the closure of Orthodox house churches,” lamented Abbess Xenia Chernega ...