Moscow and Kyiv are seeking battlefield gains to strengthen their negotiating positions ahead of any prospective talks to end the 3-year-old war. In the past year, Russian troops have slowly but ...

27, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File) Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks on the phone with Taisia Leonova, a girl from the Moscow region, as part of a nationwide charity ...

While Russian ally Bashar al-Assad was being toppled by rebels in Syria, another friend of Moscow, President Faustin-Archange Touadéra, was being chaperoned by Kremlin-backed mercenaries in the ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Moscow on Friday for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin and the signing of a strategic partnership treaty involving closer defense ...

The treaty was the latest Russia has signed with a country that is engaged in a conflict with Western states since Moscow invaded Ukraine almost three years ago, and represents an effort to ...

At a joint news conference with Pezeshkian in Moscow on Friday, Putin praised the deal as a “real breakthrough creating conditions for the stable and sustainable development of Russia ...

Robert Fico’s recent trip to Moscow is backfiring in the very theater it was supposed to score him points — back home. The Russia-friendly Slovak leader is facing the most serious threat to his rule ...

Thousands of fighters have been returned in dozens of exchanges since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a rare form of cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv after nearly three years of fighting.

Moscow's possible involvement in the plane crash could damage Russia-Azerbaijan relations. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov speaks in Moscow on January 14. Lavrov spoke about the ...

An officer from the FSB counterintelligence department, Vladimir Feshchenko, was shot and killed in a building belonging to the Ministry of Defense in central Moscow – his body discovered early ...

Ellie Cook is a Newsweek security and defense reporter based in London, U.K. Her work focuses largely on the Russia-Ukraine war, the U.S. military, weapons systems and emerging technology.