Putin says Trump administration is listening to Russia's arguments on Ukraine war
Read full article: Putin says Trump administration is listening to Russia's arguments on Ukraine warRussian President Vladimir Putin says the Trump administration is listening to the Kremlin's justifications for its invasion of Ukraine.
Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows it
Read full article: Western officials say Russia is behind a campaign of sabotage across Europe. This AP map shows itWestern officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the invasion of Ukraine three years ago.
EU leaders to hold emergency Ukraine talks, seeking to adapt to new security demands without the US
Read full article: EU leaders to hold emergency Ukraine talks, seeking to adapt to new security demands without the USEuropean Union leaders plan to hold emergency talks to agree ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled Europe must take care of its own security and also suspended assistance to Ukraine.
US imposes sanctions on Russian and Iranian groups over disinformation targeting American voters
Read full article: US imposes sanctions on Russian and Iranian groups over disinformation targeting American votersThe U.S. has imposed sanctions on two groups linked to Russian and Iranian disinformation campaigns targeting this year's election.
Moscow warns the US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weapons
Read full article: Moscow warns the US over allowing Ukraine to hit Russian soil with longer-range weaponsThe Kremlin warns that Washington's decision to let Ukraine strike targets inside Russia with U.S.-supplied longer-range missiles would stoke the war and escalate international tensions.
Gabbard's sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump's pick to lead intelligence services
Read full article: Gabbard's sympathetic views toward Russia cause alarm as Trump's pick to lead intelligence servicesDonald Trump's pick for director of national intelligence is facing scrutiny over her past remarks that supported Kremlin propaganda about Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Foreign threats to the US election are on the rise, and officials are moving faster to expose them
Read full article: Foreign threats to the US election are on the rise, and officials are moving faster to expose themForeign threats to the upcoming U.S. election are on the rise as Nov. 5 approaches, and U.S. officials are moving more aggressively to call them out.
Moldova narrowly votes to secure path toward EU membership after accusing Russia of interference
Read full article: Moldova narrowly votes to secure path toward EU membership after accusing Russia of interferenceElectoral data shows that Moldovans have voted by a razor-thin majority in favor of securing the country’s path toward European Union membership.
Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report says
Read full article: Russia goes all-out with covert disinformation aimed at Harris, Microsoft report saysA new Microsoft threat intelligence report details how Russia-linked actors are now going full throttle in their covert influence efforts against Vice President Kamala Harris.
In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominence
Read full article: In Belarus, the native language is vanishing as Russian takes prominenceBelarusians are experiencing a new wave of Russification as Moscow expands its economic, political and cultural dominance to overtake the identity of its neighbor.
American company, Russian propaganda: New Kremlin tactic reveals escalating effort to sway US vote
Read full article: American company, Russian propaganda: New Kremlin tactic reveals escalating effort to sway US voteThis week's indictment of two Russian state media employees accused of paying a Tennessee company to create pro-Russian content is revealing Moscow's latest tactic for meddling in the November election.
Former 2016 Trump campaign adviser is charged over his work for sanctioned Russian TV
Read full article: Former 2016 Trump campaign adviser is charged over his work for sanctioned Russian TVThe U.S. government has charged a Russian-born U.S. citizen and former adviser to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign with working for a sanctioned Russian state television network and laundering the proceeds.
Ukraine's parliament approves ban on Moscow-linked religious groups. One church is seen as a target
Read full article: Ukraine's parliament approves ban on Moscow-linked religious groups. One church is seen as a targetUkraine’s parliament has banned the activities of religious groups tied to the Russian Orthodox Church or any other faith group supporting Russia’s invasion.
Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and shifting political sands in the US
Read full article: Ukraine faces twin challenges of fighting Russia and shifting political sands in the USAfter almost 30 months of war with Russia, Ukraine’s difficulties on the battlefield are mounting even as its vital support from the United States is increasingly at the mercy of changing political winds.
Russian strikes leave thousands in northern Ukraine without power and water
Read full article: Russian strikes leave thousands in northern Ukraine without power and waterRussian strikes have left over 100,000 households without power in northern Ukraine and cut off the water supply to the regional capital of Sumy.
AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warn
Read full article: AI could supercharge disinformation and disrupt EU elections, experts warnVoters in the European Union are set to elect lawmakers starting Thursday for the bloc’s parliament, in a major democratic exercise that’s also likely to be overshadowed by online disinformation.
Police search the European Parliament over suspected Russian interference, prosecutors say
Read full article: Police search the European Parliament over suspected Russian interference, prosecutors sayBelgium’s federal prosecutor’s office says police have searched the residence of an employee of the European Parliament and his office in the Parliament’s building in Brussels over suspected Russian interference.
Belgian and Czech leaders exhort the EU to react amid concern over Russian election interference
Read full article: Belgian and Czech leaders exhort the EU to react amid concern over Russian election interferenceThe leaders of Belgium and the Czech Republic are warning their European Union partners to take urgent action to prevent Russian interference in June’s Europe-wide elections.
Belgium launches probe into suspected Russian interference in upcoming EU elections
Read full article: Belgium launches probe into suspected Russian interference in upcoming EU electionsBelgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo has announced an investigation into suspected Russian interference in June's Europe-wide elections.
Russian disinformation is about immigration. The real aim is to undercut Ukraine aid
Read full article: Russian disinformation is about immigration. The real aim is to undercut Ukraine aidRussian state media and online accounts tied to the Kremlin have begun pushing misleading and incendiary claims about U.S. immigration.
US is imposing more than 500 new sanctions on Russia's war machine, indicts Russian businessmen
Read full article: US is imposing more than 500 new sanctions on Russia's war machine, indicts Russian businessmenThe Treasury Department plans to impose more than 500 new sanctions on Russia and its war machine on Friday as the U.S. vows to keep up its financial pressure on Moscow with the war entering its third grueling year.
2022 federal elections in the US not tainted by foreign interference, officials say
Read full article: 2022 federal elections in the US not tainted by foreign interference, officials sayA declassified U.S. government report says foreign hackers did not change vote totals or otherwise compromise the integrity of federal elections last year in the United States.
Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with Belarus
Read full article: Why tensions have been growing along NATO’s eastern border with BelarusPoland is deploying thousands of troops to its border with pro-Russian Belarus, calling it a deterrent move as tensions between the neighbors ratchet up.
German foreign minister poses challenge to South Africa over its position on Russian war effort
Read full article: German foreign minister poses challenge to South Africa over its position on Russian war effortGermany's foreign minister has called for Russia “to stop the bombing” of Ukraine, a pointed message to South Africa as it draws accusations of aiding Moscow's war effort.
Ukraine's Zelenskyy upbeat after talk with China's Xi
Read full article: Ukraine's Zelenskyy upbeat after talk with China's XiUkrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he and Chinese leader Xi Jinping have had a “long and meaningful” phone conversation in their first known contact since Russia invaded Ukraine.
Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3B loan to Russia
Read full article: Court: Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3B loan to RussiaThe U.K. Supreme Court has ruled that Ukraine can try to avoid repaying $3 billion in loans it said it took under pressure from Russia in 2013 to prevent it from trying to join the European Union.
Russia, Ukraine face off at UN with rival tributes to dead
Read full article: Russia, Ukraine face off at UN with rival tributes to deadRussia and Ukraine faced off at the U.N. Security Council on the first anniversary of their war _ with their confrontation even extending to dueling moments of silence for the dead.
Clashes at Montenegro protests amid political tension
Read full article: Clashes at Montenegro protests amid political tensionClashes erupted on Monday during an opposition protest in Montenegro reflecting a deep political crisis between the pro-Western and pro-Serb and pro-Russian camps in the small Balkan country that is a member of NATO.
Ukraine bans religious organizations with links to Russia
Read full article: Ukraine bans religious organizations with links to RussiaUkraine has banned the activities of religious organizations “affiliated with centers of influence” in Russia and says it will examine the links between the Ukrainian and Russian Orthodox churches.
NATO allies vow to back Moldova, Georgia, and Bosnia
Read full article: NATO allies vow to back Moldova, Georgia, and BosniaMoldova’s Foreign Minister says that apart from Ukraine, his country has been hit hardest by Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, as NATO offered fresh support to three countries shaken by the effects of Russia’s 10-month-old war.
Dutch judges to deliver verdicts in MH17 downed plane trial
Read full article: Dutch judges to deliver verdicts in MH17 downed plane trialA Dutch court is set to deliver verdicts Thursday in the trial of three Russians and a Ukrainian rebel for their alleged roles in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over conflict-torn eastern Ukraine in 2014.
Europe praises, Belarus scorns Nobel for rights defenders
Read full article: Europe praises, Belarus scorns Nobel for rights defendersOfficials in Europe praised the awarding of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to activists standing up for human rights and democracy in Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, but authorities in Belarus are scorning the move.
Meta disables Russian propaganda network targeting Europe
Read full article: Meta disables Russian propaganda network targeting EuropeFacebook says it has identified and stopped a sprawling network of fake accounts that spread Russian propaganda about the invasion of Ukraine throughout Western Europe.
Ukraine’s Mariupol defenders, Putin ally in prisoner swap
Read full article: Ukraine’s Mariupol defenders, Putin ally in prisoner swapUkraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap with Russia, the culmination of months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege.
Steel plant defenders, Putin ally exchanged in prisoner swap
Read full article: Steel plant defenders, Putin ally exchanged in prisoner swapUkraine has completed a high-profile prisoner swap that culminated months of efforts to free many of the Ukrainian fighters who defended a steel plant in the port of Mariupol during a months-long Russian siege.
Ukrainian president: Burial site contains torture victims
Read full article: Ukrainian president: Burial site contains torture victimsInvestigators searching through a mass burial site in Ukraine have found evidence that some of the dead were tortured, including bodies with broken limbs and ropes around their necks.
UN fact-finding mission will probe Ukraine prison killings
Read full article: UN fact-finding mission will probe Ukraine prison killingsThe United Nations chief says he is appointing a fact-finding mission in response to requests from Russia and Ukraine to investigate the killings at a prison in a separatist region of eastern Ukraine that the warring nations accuse each other of carrying out.
Russia declares Ukrainian military unit a terrorist group
Read full article: Russia declares Ukrainian military unit a terrorist groupThe Russian Supreme Court has declared Ukraine’s Azov Regiment a terrorist organization banned in Russia, a designation that may expose Ukrainian prisoners of war held by Moscow to terrorism charges.
Amid Russia shelling, Ukraine aims to strengthen government
Read full article: Amid Russia shelling, Ukraine aims to strengthen governmentAs Russia kept up its relentless shelling across the country, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is expanding the shakeup of his security services by suspending 28 more officials.
Russia's information war expands through Eastern Europe
Read full article: Russia's information war expands through Eastern EuropeAs Russia's war in Ukraine rages on, the Kremlin is expanding its information war throughout Eastern Europe, spreading propaganda and disinformation blaming NATO and the West for its Ukraine invasion.
Russian forces leave Snake Island, keep up eastern assault
Read full article: Russian forces leave Snake Island, keep up eastern assaultRussia has pulled back its forces from a Black Sea island where they have faced relentless Ukrainian attacks, but is keeping up its push to encircle the last bulwark of Ukraine’s resistance in the eastern province of Luhansk.
Live updates | Biden: Zelenskyy didn't want to hear US info
Read full article: Live updates | Biden: Zelenskyy didn't want to hear US infoPresident Joe Biden says Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “didn’t want to hear it” when U.S. intelligence gathered information that Russia was preparing to invade.
Live updates | Zelenskyy: Russia should pay for destruction
Read full article: Live updates | Zelenskyy: Russia should pay for destructionPresident Volodymyr Zelenskyy devoted his nightly video address to Ukraine’s demand that Russia be held financially responsible for the damage its forces are inflicting on Ukraine.
Pro-Russian hackers spread hoaxes to divide Ukraine, allies
Read full article: Pro-Russian hackers spread hoaxes to divide Ukraine, alliesAs Ukrainian refugees flooded into Poland to escape Russia's invasion, a hacking group aligned with the Kremlin tried to spread rumors and hoaxes intended to divide Ukraine from its allies.
Live updates | Pentagon: most Russian forces left Mariupol
Read full article: Live updates | Pentagon: most Russian forces left MariupolThe Pentagon says the majority of Russian forces that had been around the port city of Mariupol have left and headed north, leaving roughly the equivalent of two battalion tactical groups there, or about 2,000 troops.
Live updates | UN: More than 300 evacuated from Mariupol
Read full article: Live updates | UN: More than 300 evacuated from MariupolThe United Nations says more than 300 civilians from the besieged southeastern city of Mariupol and four other towns have been evacuated to Ukrainian-held Zaporizhzhia in a second successful operation to get civilians out of areas subject to Russian shelling and attacks.
Ukraine cracks down on 'traitors' helping Russian troops
Read full article: Ukraine cracks down on 'traitors' helping Russian troopsUkrainian authorities are cracking down on anyone suspected of aiding Russian troops under laws enacted by Ukraine’s parliament and signed by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy after the Feb. 24 invasion.
Occupied Ukrainian city fears sham Russian referendum plans
Read full article: Occupied Ukrainian city fears sham Russian referendum plansWhile the world’s attention has focused on the fighting around Ukraine’s capital and the east, Russia swiftly captured and has held onto swaths of the country’s southern territory for two months.
Ukraine rejects Serbian bomb threat claims on Russia flights
Read full article: Ukraine rejects Serbian bomb threat claims on Russia flightsUkraine has rejected as baseless and false the accusations made by Serbia’s president that Ukraine’s secret service is behind a series of false bomb threats against Air Serbia flights to Russia.
Ukraine's detention of oligarch close to Putin angers Moscow
Read full article: Ukraine's detention of oligarch close to Putin angers MoscowThe detention of fugitive Ukrainian oligarch Viktor Medvedchuk, the former leader of a pro-Russian opposition party and a close associate of Russian leader Vladimir Putin, has been met with enthusiasm in Kyiv and irritation in Moscow.
Pictures from Ukraine: A look at what’s going on overseas as the war continues
Read full article: Pictures from Ukraine: A look at what’s going on overseas as the war continuesRussia’s Defense Ministry promised Friday to ramp up missile attacks on the Ukrainian capital in response to Ukraine’s alleged aggression on Russian territory, an ominous warning that followed Moscow’s stinging symbolic loss of its navy’s flagship in the Black Sea.
Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine War
Read full article: Live Updates | Russia-Ukraine WarA U.N. task force is warning in a new report that Russia’s war against Ukraine threatens to devastate the economies of many developing countries that are now facing even higher food and energy costs and increasingly difficult financial conditions.
China calls for probe into Bucha killings, assigns no blame
Read full article: China calls for probe into Bucha killings, assigns no blameChina says the reports and images of civilian deaths in the Ukrainian town of Bucha are “deeply disturbing" but that no one should be blamed until all facts are known.
Wins for pro-Putin leaders buttress autocracies in Europe
Read full article: Wins for pro-Putin leaders buttress autocracies in EuropeParliamentary elections in Hungary and Serbia brought landslide wins for the two countries’ longtime, pro-Putin leaders — Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with Ukraine
Read full article: EXPLAINER: Why Putin uses WWII to justify war with UkraineVladimir Putin has again painted his enemies in Ukraine as “neo-Nazis,” even though the country has a Jewish president who lost relatives in the Holocaust and who heads a Western-backed, democratically elected government.
Tennessee guard members safe despite Russian reports
Read full article: Tennessee guard members safe despite Russian reportsThree current and former members of the Tennessee National Guard are safe and accounted for, despite a Russian newspaper’s false report that the men were killed while fighting in Ukraine.
Invasion jolts Russia's friends in tiny West-leaning Moldova
Read full article: Invasion jolts Russia's friends in tiny West-leaning MoldovaAcross the border from war-engulfed Ukraine, tiny, impoverished Moldova — an ex-Soviet republic now looking eagerly Westward — has watched with trepidation as the Russian invasion unfolds.
Ukraine says Russia steps up shelling of residential areas
Read full article: Ukraine says Russia steps up shelling of residential areasRussian forces intensified shelling of Ukrainian cities in the country’s center, north and south, a Ukrainian official said, as a second attempt to evacuate civilians from besieged cities collapsed.
EXPLAINER: Putin's Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine war
Read full article: EXPLAINER: Putin's Balkan narrative argument for Ukraine warWell before Russian tanks and troops rolled into Ukraine, Vladimir Putin was using the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s to ostensibly offer justification for the invasion of a sovereign European country.
Russian propaganda 'outgunned' by social media rebuttals
Read full article: Russian propaganda 'outgunned' by social media rebuttalsRussian state media is spreading false claims that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has fled Kyiv in what experts say is an effort to discourage Ukrainians and erode support for Ukraine around the globe.
Attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant triggers worldwide alarm
Read full article: Attack on Ukrainian nuclear plant triggers worldwide alarmU.N. and Ukrainian officials say no radiation was released from a Russian attack at Europe’s biggest nuclear power plant in Ukraine and firefighters have extinguished a blaze at the facility.
Live updates: Official: Artillery kills 70 Ukraine soldiers
Read full article: Live updates: Official: Artillery kills 70 Ukraine soldiersA regional Ukraine official says more than 70 Ukrainian soldiers were killed after Russian artillery hit a military base in Okhtyrka, a city between Kharkiv and Kyiv.
Crime watch: ICC prosecutor is monitoring Ukraine invasion
Read full article: Crime watch: ICC prosecutor is monitoring Ukraine invasionThe International Criminal Court’s prosecutor has put combatants and their commanders on notice that he is monitoring Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and has jurisdiction to prosecute war crimes and crimes against humanity.