The Kremlin on Saturday denounced US “peak hysteria” surrounding the Ukraine conflict but said Russian President Vladimir Putin and US leader Joe Biden had agreed to continue dialogue. Speaking after new phone talks between Putin and Bide...

Efforts to defuse the crisis in Ukraine via a frenzy of telephone diplomacy failed to ease tensions Saturday, with the White House insisting that Russia faces “swift and severe costs” if its troops carry out an invasion. Russian President...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Saturday slammed Western claims of an imminent Moscow invasion of Ukraine as a “provocation” as he began new crisis talks with US President Joe Biden. Weeks of tensions that have seen Russia surround its w...

Ukraine’s last pro-Russian nationwide television channel was unplugged on Feb. 11 following a National Security and Defense Council (NSDC) meeting. Sanctions were imposed for five years, NSDC secretary Oleksiy Danilov said after the meeting in Khar...

Ukrainian captain Oleksandr Surkov looks askance at his patrol boat’s machine guns and laments how futile they would be fending off an attack from Russian warships now steaming across the Black Sea. “Our weapons are mostly designed to pro...

Ukraine urged its citizens on Saturday to keep calm and avoid panicking in the face of mounting worries that Russia is preparing to invade its neighbour. The appeal came a day after the United States and a host of European countries urged their citi...

Kyiv is setting in motion a risk reduction clause of an Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) document to obtain an explanation from Russia on its military movements near Ukraine’s state borders.  By activating the OSCE’s Vi...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has emphasized the importance of government interaction at all levels in the organization of territorial defense. He stated this at a meeting of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of Ukraine in Khark...

Global shares dropped on Friday on rising worries over escalating Ukraine-Russia tensions and the prospect of a tightened interest rate hike timeline from the U.S. Federal Reserve in response to decades-high inflation. Benchmark Treasury yields lost ...

US President Joe Biden will speak to Vladimir Putin on Saturday after the United States warned that a Russian invasion of Ukraine could begin in days. The US had dramatically raised the alarm over Ukraine on Friday, saying a Russian invasion starting...