Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said in early January that 3,800 North Korean soldiers had been killed or wounded in Kursk, where Russia is trying to reclaim territory following Kyiv’s lightning offensive last August and a second push late last year.

Sergey Lavrov, Russia's long-serving Minister of Foreign Affairs, has been a central figure in shaping the country's diplomatic policies for decades.

Putin’s forces locked onto French plane as North Korea troops may ‘be dead by April’ - “This aggressive Russian action is not acceptable,” the French defense minister said

The scenario in which Ukraine eventually regains its 1991 borders is becoming increasingly realistic. This is because the next US president, Donald Trump, will enter negotiations with Russia from a strong position,

As he prepares to take office, President-elect Donald Trump says he hope to meet with Russia’s Vladimir Putin “very quickly” in pursuit of a speedy end to the war in Ukraine. Trump has suggested he believes Putin will be open to compromise,

After NATO scrambled warplanes after Russian incursion in Poland, they had to send a plane again after Putin's drone hit areas on the Romanian side of the border.

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The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine continues to dominate international headlines, with reports of “limited talks” between the two adversaries now emerging. According to Bloomberg, citing sources from the Russian side,

Should TurkStream go the way of Nord Stream, it will prove that it doesn?t matter who is in the White House On January 11, nine Ukrainian

MOSCOW, January 16. /TASS/. Israel and Hamas reach a ceasefire deal; NATO seeks to monitor vessels in neutral Baltic waters. Meanwhile, President Joe Biden rushes to remove Cuba from the US list of state sponsors ahead of Donald Trump’s arrival. These stories topped Thursday's newspaper headlines in Russia.

Ukraine has not abandoned the principle of not negotiating personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin, says Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha in an interview with European Pravda. The journalist asked Sybiha what Kyiv's current position is on direct talks with Putin,

This analysis follows a recent interview given by Nikolai Patrushev, an aide to Vladimir Putin and former secretary of Russia’s Security Council, to the Russian outlet Komsomolskaya Pravda. The interview,