After years of the U.S. trying to isolate Russia’s closest ally, a meeting with Belarus’s president points to better ...

It was initially hoped the operation would relieve pressure on other parts of the more than 1,000km-long (620 miles) frontline, particularly in eastern Ukraine. Moscow is continuing its relentless ...

Novaya Guta is one of almost a dozen border crossings left deserted since Russia invaded Ukraine via Belarus in February 2022, slashing relations between Minsk and Kyiv. Up to 17,000 people a day ...

It is also a key route linking towns further east to the rest of unoccupied Ukraine. It is the second significant town in Donetsk to fall to the Russians this month after Moscow claimed control of ...

Night - Cloudy with a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds variable at 7 to 9 mph (11.3 to 14.5 kph). The overnight low will be 35 °F (1.7 °C). Cloudy with a high of 40 °F (4.4 °C) and a 54% ...

The European Parliament has adopted a resolution condemning the repressive environment and illegitimate elections in Belarus under dictator Alexander ... The European Union and several countries, ...

A close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he allowed Moscow to use Belarus as a launchpad for its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - and paid the price in the form of ...

Ukraine launched a lightning thrust into the Russian oblast of Kursk last August, taking Russian border guards by surprise. The government in Kyiv made it clear at the time that it had no ...

Finland's Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen said she believes there'll be a peace deal between Russia and Ukraine this year. "I'm pretty sure there will be a peace agreement this year," said ...

President Trump said Russian President Vladimir Putin is “destroying Russia” with its nearly three-year war in Ukraine, adding he hopes the Kremlin leader is open to making a deal to end the ...

It is, Darwin reckons, one of the main reasons – greater perhaps than Russia’s manpower advantage – that Ukraine is on the back foot not just around the embattled town of Kupiansk but along ...