Russian Labor Minister Anton Kotyakov warns that demographic decline and war is making President Vladimir Putin's Russia increasingly uncompetitive in the labor market.

Ukraine is making progress in intensive talks to formalise legally binding security guarantees with the United States and European allies, a key part of its bid to end the war with Russia, First Deputy Foreign Minister Sergiy Kyslytsya said.

The bilateral meeting between Trump and Putin on Friday will be the first time an American leader has met with Putin since he launched the war against Ukraine in February 2022. The last time Putin met with a U.S. president was in 2021, at a summit with then-President Joe Biden.

China’s political and economic support has become a decisive factor shaping Ukraine peace talks, Russia’s future prospects, and the balance of power.

Ukrainian and European officials say President Vladimir V. Putin has become emboldened by a lack of Western pushback.

The Yale Humanitarian Research Lab says Russia's network of sites for Ukrainian children is larger than previously thought, and programs includes military training for children as young as 8.

There was a brief moment in the 1990s when it appeared that Russia was heading toward a European-style democracy.

American and Ukrainian officials have reportedly been mulling over a plan for American air and satellite surveillance assets to monitor a future Korea-like demilitarized area separating Ukrainian-controlled and Russian-controlled territory within Ukraine’s borders as part of a possible peace plan.

US President Donald Trump on Friday made a cryptic post expressing thinning hopes of a trade deal with India. Posting a picture of Prime Mi.

With the Russian advance deeper into the Donetsk region, the air in Ukraine’s last strongholds is thick with dread, and the future for civilians who remain grows ever more uncertain.