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European leaders on Friday at long last cranked up sanctions on Russia, sending Vladimir Putin a message that there will be ...

A former Pentagon adviser has issued a serious warning about the state of America’s military readiness, claiming the United States may only have enough missiles to fight for eight days before being ...

Melania Trump’s Slovenia is not far from Ukraine. It’s less than 400 miles; about like driving from Birmingham to Baton Rouge ...

EU and UK increase sanctions on Putin as mass drone attack kills one in Odesa - Ukraine’s allies welcome new EU sanctions package targeting Russian oil and gas industry ...

Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces ...

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There was rejoicing when US President Donald Trump announced that he was going to let Ukraine have weapons after all, but it was conspicuously contained joy. Half-smiles and sighs of relief were ...

In the days since President Donald Trump issued a 50-day ultimatum to Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine, Kremlin officials have shown little interest in coming to the ...

In a dramatic geopolitical shift, Russia has withdrawn from a long-standing military cooperation agreement with Germany, ...

For a quarter century, virtually every American president had made the same mistake, treating Russian leader Vladimir Putin as someone who shares the U.S. interest in a safer, more predictable ...