For the first time, Putin has spelt out his military objective so explicitly, ie the absorption of Russian-dominated regions of Lugansk, Do...

"Ukraine's NATO membership is a blessing. Who prevented this at the NATO summit in 2008? Angela Merkel and Frank-Walter Steinmeier," Schroe...

Few months back mass graves of hundreds of Russian-speaking civilians had been found in the Donbas region. The Ukrainian government has bee...

Russia signaled Friday it may dial back its war aims to focus on eastern Ukraine after failing to break the nation's resistance in a month ...

The announcement appeared to indicate that Russia may be switching to more limited goals after running into fierce Ukrainian resistance in ...

"People's republics of Donbass approached Russia with a request for help. In connection therewith, I made the decision to hold a special mi...

In a lengthy meeting of his Security Council, broadcast on state television in what a presenter called "unprecedented footage", Putin cross...

Linda Thomas-Greenfield said she asked Secretary of State Antony Blinken to attend the Council meeting on Ukraine on "to signal our intense...

Western military analysts have suggested Russia cannot keep such troops deployed where they are indefinitely for financial and logistical r...

Stressing that the important thing now was to prevent situations from spiralling out of control, Stoltenberg urged Russia to be transparent...

Ukrainian authorities have said at least 400,000 Russian passports were distributed among residents in eastern Ukraine and the need to prot...

Issuing the invitation in a video address in the late evening, Zelenskiy also urged Kyiv's Western backers to give "clear signals" that the...

Approved by parliament late in March, the measure makes it possible to significantly boost the armed forces, amid escalation of tension wit...

Kyiv and Moscow have traded blame over the worsening situation in the eastern Donbass region, where Ukrainian troops have battled Russian-b...

The minister, Andrii Taran, said Russian accusations about the rights of Russian-speakers being violated could be the reason for the resump...

Kyiv has raised the alarm over a buildup of Russian forces near the border between Ukraine and Russia, and over a rise in violence along th...

Ukraine said the drills, called Cossack Mace, were large-scale international exercises that would strengthen cooperation between Ukrainian ...