Russia said on Tuesday that its forces were tightening their encirclement of Ukrainian troops in the city of Pokrovsk, a transport and logistics hub they have been trying to capture for over a year. With fighting raging in the streets of the ruined city,

ALBA IULIA, Romania — On the Mures river in central Romania, French armoured vehicles and Romanian trucks board a motorized floating bridge, part of a large military exercise to showcase NATO’s ability to rapidly increase force levels on its eastern flank facing Russia.

Days after canceling a planned summit with Putin, citing a lack of progress toward ending the war in Ukraine, Trump took a major step by effectively blacklisting Rosneft and Lukoil.

China and Russia pledged a joint response to unilateral sanctions during a visit by Russia's Prime Minister, as Chinese President Xi Jinping reaffirmed Beijing's commitment to advancing ties with Moscow despite "turbulent" external conditions.

Smiling broadly and clad in military fatigues, young Iraqi Mohammed Imad's last TikTok post was in a field carved up with heavy vehicle tracks in what appeared to be Ukraine. Smoke was rising

As many as 1,500 “ideological immigrants,” including 127 Americans, have applied for temporary residence in Russia in the last year.

Nearly two dozen earthquakes have struck off the coast of Russia, near the Kamchatka Peninsula, in the last 24 hours, according to the U.S. Geological Survey ( USGS ). The temblors were measured from 4.3 to 6.1 magnitude, the latter considered a strong earthquake that could inflict damage on populated areas.

Putin said the small-scale nuclear technologies used in both the Burevestnik and the Poseidon were particularly useful for work in the Arctic and for space travel and, eventually, for building a station on the moon.

The two civilians carried with them a white flag indicating that they were not combatants – meaning that killing them could be considered a war crime.