Ukraine faked the assassination of Russian opposition leader Denis Kapustin to trick Moscow into paying a $500,000 bounty that funded the war effort.

Russia filed a formal diplomatic request that the United States stop pursuing an oil tanker originally bound for Venezuela that has evaded US custody for almost two weeks, two sources familiar with the matter told CNN.

Hours after Trump declares Russia and Ukraine "closer than ever" to peace, Moscow claims a failed drone strike will alter its negotiating position.

Moscow endorses Latin American statement calling for urgent UN Security Council meeting; leftist Latin American regimes warn of regional instability, as right-wing ones celebrate The post Russia, Iran slam Venezuela strikes as EU and UK urge respect for international law appeared first on The Times of Israel.

It was a made-for-Netflix moment, giving Donald Trump exactly the kind of attention-grabbing spectacle he craved.

At the moment we suspect aggravated disruption of telecommunications and also aggravated sabotage,” Helsinki's police chief said.

January, President Vladimir Putin’s “special military operation” in Ukraine will have dragged on longer than the war on the Eastern Front that ended with the fall of Berlin in May 1945.

Ex-Russian president said he could envisage ‘abduction operations’ against world leaders similar to the US arrest of Maduro in Venezuela.