The US and European leaders are placing their hopes in the Vatican to engage Russia and Ukraine in peace talks, after President Donald Trump said Pope Leo XIV had expressed interest in the idea. The Kremlin isn’t so keen.

A large-scale prisoner exchange between Ukraine and Russia in the 1,000 for 1,000 format likely cannot be completed in a single day and may need to be carried out in several stages, according to Russian State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliyev.

The War Zone, an online military magazine, notes that while nuclear-armed air-to-air missiles were part of the Soviet Union's arsenal during the Cold War, little is known about their current status within Russia's Aerospace Forces (VKS), which "makes the disclosure from [the Defense Intelligence Agency] intelligence all the more intriguing."

The Russian leader traveled to the region in the west of the country where a surprise incursion last year embarrassed Moscow.

A new report has found that Russia's relentless campaign to attack Ukraine has now targeted the country's grain supplies

Moscow’s famed metro system has unveiled a Soviet-era monument to Josef Stalin in one of its central stations, as part of a gradual reappraisal of the dictator’s legacy in Russia.

Ukraine's military launched what has been described as the largest drone assault on Russian territory since March.

Vladimir Putin met with officials in the Kursk region, which may indicate plans to seize the Sumy region in Ukraine, reports the Institute for the Study of War (ISW). Vladimir Putin, the leader of Russia,