War in Ukraine

Beijing tends to play it safe in its diplomacy and remains reluctant to pressure Moscow, foreign diplomats and former U.S. officials say.

Moscow's defense ministry appeared to concede Friday that its troops had lost ground around the key eastern city but sought to calm panic about a looming counteroffensive.

South Africa is one of Russia’s most important allies, but says it is impartial on the Ukraine conflict and has abstained from voting on U.N. resolutions on the war.

Since the Russian leader sent troops into Ukraine in February 2022, the government has waged a crackdown on dissent unseen since the Soviet era.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said his military needed more time before launching a counteroffensive, despite claiming to have struck back in the key eastern battle.

Soldin, 32, was killed Tuesday during a rocket attack near Bakhmut. He was with a team of AFP journalists traveling with Ukrainian soldiers, AFP said.

The Russian leader spoke of "a real war" being waged against his country as he sought to rally the public in his speech at Moscow's annual parade Tuesday.

Yevgeny Prigozhin changes course days after he launches a furious tirade blaming Moscow’s military leaders for heavy losses in the eastern Ukrainian city.

The International Atomic Energy Agency says shelling was heard regularly around the Zaporizhzhia plant in southeast Ukraine.

Zakhar Prilepin is a well-known nationalist writer and an ardent supporter of what the Kremlin calls a “special military operation” in Ukraine.

Investigators opened a case against Yevgenia Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk, alleging that Petriychuk’s “Finist, the Brave Falcon” had broken the law.