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Russia and Ukraine exchanged drone strikes overnight, as Russian forces increased the intensity of attacks on the ground.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has suggested Ukraine could be placed under a form of temporary international administration to allow for elections and the signing of key accords.
US envoy Steve Witkoff says the status of the Ukrainian territories currently occupied by Russia is central to ending the war between Moscow and Kyiv.
Russian drone strikes targeted civilian infrastructure in Ukrainian Black Sea port of Odesa, leaving at least three people injured and several districts of the city battling power cuts while Czech President Petr Pavel was visiting the city for talks with officials.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a delegation from Kyiv will hold talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia next week even as Ukraine and Russia traded air strikes on energy and civilian infrastructure.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Russia hit energy infrastructure in Ukraine just hours after President Vladimir Putin told US President Donald Trump he would halt such strikes, as he warned of a "long path" to a cease-fire in the war on Ukraine.
Ukraine launched a large-scale drone attack that struck Moscow and the Moscow region overnight, killing at least one person and causing damage to residential buildings and infrastructure as diplomats from Washington and Kyiv prepare to meet in Saudi Arabia.
The United States has detained people in five separate cases over the past two years for exporting or attempting to export planes, parts, and components to Russia, whose fleet of Boeing and Airbus passenger jets faces growing problems as supplies of parts and availability of maintenance dry up.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which marks its third year on February 24, has been a geopolitical earthquake, shaking the decades-old international order. The ramifications for Russian citizens have been far from uniform, differing sharply by region and social group, among other factors.
A Russian court has ordered an American man to be held in custody for 30 days after he was arrested at a Moscow airport on drug-smuggling charges when customs officials said they found cannabis-laced marmalade in his baggage.
Confessed Russian cybercriminal Aleksandr Vinnik, who was released by the United States in a swap for an American citizen held for more than three years, has arrived in Moscow.
Ukraine said it destroyed two "Valdai" radar systems near Moscow in a wave of overnight drone attacks, while Moldova said two Russian drones exploded on its territory and NATO member Romania said its airspace had likely been breached.
Hundreds of Russian soldiers are being treated in North Korean hospitals, a Russian diplomat said, comments that provide another glimpse into the scale of cooperation between Moscow and Pyongyang in the Ukraine war.
Nearly three years into Russia’s all-out onslaught on Ukraine, hundreds of thousands of Russians remain outside the country, having fled to escape either war or political repression or both. Some have reluctantly returned home. Others have struggled to rebuild lives. Here are some of their stories.
Ukraine has marked six months since it launched an incursion into the Russian region of Kursk that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said "brought the war home for Russians” and could serve as a bargaining chip in any future peace negotiations.
France and the Netherlands delivered fighter jets to Ukraine, giving Kyiv a major boost in its ability to defend Ukrainian airspace amid an almost daily barrage of Russian attacks.
An explosion at the Alye Parusa residential complex in a Moscow suburb on February 3 reportedly targeted Armen Sarkisian, founder of the Armenian Battalion fighting for Russia in Ukraine. Some Russian media reported he had been killed in the explosion, while others said he was injured but survived.
Russia has added seven people including two Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalists to its long and growing list of “foreign agents,” a move RFE/RL’s president said was part of a “brutal assault on independent media.”
Officials in multiple Russian regions reported major Ukrainian drone strikes overnight targeting energy infrastructure, including a nuclear power site, while the Ukrainian and Russian presidents exchanged insults over the possibility of peace negotiations.
An oil refinery in the Russian city of Ryazan was engulfed in flames after Kyiv launched a massive drone attack -- Ukraine's largest since the start of the year -- that targeted more than a dozen regions across the country, including Moscow.
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