U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday warned that Washington may abandon efforts to broker a ceasefire in Ukraine unless Moscow and Kyiv agree to terms currently under discussion.

“We’ve issued a very explicit proposal to both the Russians and the Ukrainians, and it’s time for them to either say ‘yes,’ or for the United States to walk away

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Russian law enforcement authorities carried out searches at the homes of four former opposition politicians in Moscow on suspicion that they have ties to an “undesirable” organization, state mediareported Wednesday.

The former municipal deputies were named “founders and co-chairs” of an exiled association of anti-war local politicians called Dep

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The Russian stock and currency markets plummeted during Wednesday trading amid reports that peace negotiations on Ukraine had hit another roadblock.

As of 12:30 p.m. Moscow time, the U.S. dollar had risen 1.5% on the forex market to 82.71 rubles, while it climbed to 83.1 rubles on the Russian interbank market — its highest level in a week, a

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Law enforcement authorities in Kyrgyzstan arrested an employee of Russia’s state-funded cultural diplomacy agency Rossotrudnichestvo and three others on charges of recruiting locals for the war in Ukraine, mediareported Tuesday.

A court in the Kyrgyz capital of Bishkek on Saturday placed Natalia Sekerina in pre-trial detention until June 17 on

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The Kremlin has doubled its funding in 2025 for Yunarmiya ("Youth Army"), the state-sponsored youth organization that combines ideological indoctrination with military training for children and teenagers.

According to documents reviewed by the independent Mozhem Obyasnit news outlet, Yunarmia is receiving 1 billion rubles (approximately $11

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Top diplomats from the United States and Europe skipped a new round of Ukraine peace talks in London on Wednesday, the British Foreign Office told news outlets, with the latest discussions on a ceasefire proposal now taking place among senior officials.

Sky News reported earlier that Germany and France chose not to send their foreign ministers,

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