
Putin bestows friendship award on actor Steven Seagal
Seagal was a vocal supporter of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea

Seagal was a vocal supporter of Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea

Russia’s suspension of its arms control treaty with the US augurs a new period of military deterrence, arms races and instability

The Russian invasion “has unleashed widespread death, destruction and displacement,” U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said

As both sides prepare for battlefield offensives, NATO is seeking to provide security guarantees while Moscow strengthens its alliances to gain military and diplomatic traction
The European Commission expects an agreement during the Spanish presidency of the EU, in the second half of the year

The Russian invasion of Ukraine is a challenge to the world order that has precipitated military, geopolitical, economic and human consequences on a planetary scale

‘The pressure on Russian aggressor must increase,’ the Ukrainian president tweeted in English

Germany is the exception and has displayed unusual transparency by releasing weekly lists of the weapons it is sending to Kyiv

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned council members that they “should not fall into the false equivalency of calling on both sides to stop fighting”

President Xi Jinping’s government is reiterating his country’s claim to being neutral, despite blocking efforts at the United Nations to condemn the invasion

The action seeks to punish 250 people and firms and puts financial blocks on banks, arms dealers and technology companies tied to weapons production

The Donetsk and Luhansk front line has barely moved in recent weeks with Russian and Ukrainian forces locked in static 20th-century-style battles

The plan issued by the Foreign Ministry urges the end of Western sanctions, measures to ensure the safety of nuclear facilities, the establishment of humanitarian corridors, and steps to ensure the export of grain

Since Russia invaded Ukraine there has not been a single day without an airstrike warning. Front line regions such as Kharkiv and Donetsk have spent a total of over 1,000 hours on alert
A mayor, a doctor, the mother of a dead policeman, a health worker and a priest recall the days when the town of Irpin became the wall that stopped the Kremlin’s troops from entering the capital of Ukraine

A network of partisans in the Russian-occupied city defied arrest and torture to provide Ukrainian intelligence with information that proved vital to its liberation

Home Depot fell to one of the market’s larger losses after giving financial forecasts that fell short of expectations
During his speech in Warsaw marking the one-year anniversary of the war, the US president highlighted NATO’s ‘unwavering’ commitment to supporting the Ukrainian people

Moscow has alleged that the US was behind the attack, but Washington denies the allegations

With no swift end in sight to the war in Ukraine, opinion is divided between Kyiv seeking definitive battlefield success or accepting territorial losses for a peace agreement
‘Western elites aren’t trying to conceal their goals,’ the Russian president said during his state of the nation address. ‘They intend to transform the local conflict into a global confrontation’

With no end in sight for the war, the anniversary is a critical moment for the president to try to bolster European unity and reiterate that Putin’s invasion was a frontal attack on the post-World War II international order

There is no message of greater political forcefulness or even military significance than Biden’s visit to Ukraine

The US president made an unannounced trip to Kyiv to meet with Volodymyr Zelenskiy in a gesture of solidarity days before the anniversary of Moscow’s invasion

New questions are rising over Beijing’s potential willingness to offer military aid to Moscow in the increasingly drawn-out conflict

The Biden administration formally determined last March that Russian troops had committed war crimes in Ukraine and said it would work with others to prosecute offenders

The EU’s biggest economy has taken in more asylum seekers as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine than in total during the crisis of 2015 and 2016