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Russia says it shot down three dozen Ukrainian drones heading toward Moscow

Locals who sided with pro-Russian separatists become ideologically closer to Ukraine as the war rumbles on.

The US president accused Vladimir Putin of ‘bad leadership’ during an address to the United Nations General Assembly in New York

Ukrainian intelligence officials revealed that more than 1,000 Cubans have signed contracts with the Russian military to fight in Ukraine, with at least 39 confirmed dead. The disclosure was made during a briefing organized in Washington by Cuban American Republican lawmakers, highlighting growing concerns about Havana's alleged complicity in Moscow's…

Russia shrugs off criticism as Poland and Estonia speak about incursions at emergency meeting of UN security council

The New START deal, signed by then-US and Russian presidents Barack Obama and Dmitry Medvedev, limits each country to no more than 1,550 deployed nuclear warheads and 700 deployed missiles and bombers.

Death of Andriy Parubiy in Lviv seen as part of a covert campaign of hits and car bombs waged by Moscow and Kyiv

Putin’s airspace incursions risk ‘direct armed confrontation’ with Nato, Yvette Cooper says

Seven years after moving to Ireland, Natalia Stirbu still goes home to Moldova to vote -- part of a powerful diaspora whose ballots could prove decisive in the small country's battle between Moscow and the West.

Moldovans will vote this week in tense parliamentary elections which its president has called the "most consequential" in the small country's history, as it teeters between its powerful neighbour Russia and the West.

It comes as the UK sent fighter jets to Poland in a warning to Putin to stay out of Nato territory after repeated incursions