The Latest Breaking News from Moscow

In an opinion piece for the Idaho Statesman, journalism major Katarina Hockema describes the community’s unwaning frustration

After months of painstaking negotiations with Moscow, it became clear to President Joe Biden's administration that it faced a grave choice - to exchange notorious Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner or else get no American to bring home.

A military expert from Russia has made a rare admission that Ukraine has discovered areas which could leave the city unprepared for any air attack sparking 'deep alarm' among the Kremlin’s war supporters

U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner was released on Thursday in a prisoner swap with Russia after the two-time Olympic champion and player in the Women's National Basketball Association (WNBA)spent more than nine months detained on a drug possession offense. Here are some of the key moments in her ordeal:

Rafael Grossi, the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), addressed the danger of nuclear weapons in the war in Ukraine in an interview with FRANCE 24 from Vienna. "We expect that no use of a nuclear weapon whatsoever will take place in this or in any other…

Vladimir Putin appears to confess to war crimes and blame Ukraine for strikes while guzzling champagne at a reception at the Kremlin in Moscow

The Kremlin says it’s up to Ukraine’s president to end the conflict in the country, suggesting terms that Kyiv has repeatedly rejected

Biden declares ‘She is safe. She is on a plane. She is on her way home’

Russia said on Thursday that it was still set on securing at least the bulk of the parts of east and south Ukraine that it has claimed as its own, but appeared to give up on seizing other areas in the west and northeast that Ukraine has recaptured.

Griner was traded for convicted Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout. The swap did not include former Marine Paul Whelan who remains imprisoned in Russia on espionage charges the U.S. says are false.

A U.S. official said on Thursday that U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, who had been jailed in Russia in charges of possessing and smuggling illegal drugs, was now in U.S. custody.