RFE/RL's Live Briefing gives you all of the latest developments on Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Western military aid to Kyiv, worldwide reaction, and the plight of civilians and refugees.

First came the collapse of the Soviet Union, then an economic crisis and now the Russian invasion: Ukraine's population has ...

Ukraine brought back the bodies of 757 soldiers who died fighting against Russia, the Coordination Headquarters for the Treatment of the Prisoners of War announced on Jan. 24. The bodies of 451 ...

Russia has said it had captured a strategically significant settlement in the west of Ukraine's Donetsk oblast amid reports that its troops are closing in on the key regional city of Toretsk as ...

Russia’s Defense Ministry claimed on Friday that Russian troops have fought their way into the center of a strategically ...

A bitter and bloody war in Ukraine has devastated the country, further isolated Russia from the West and fueled economic insecurity around the world. The Trump administration’s orders have sent ...

Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday seconded U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim that he could have ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday echoed U.S. President Donald Trump’s claim the conflict in Ukraine could have been prevented had he been in the White House in 2022. He also said ...

The roots of Russia's invasion of Ukraine go back decades and run deep. The current conflict is more than one country fighting to take over another; it is — in the words of one U.S. official ...

War fervour has subsided in Ukraine, but not the desire to live and the drive to carry on against all odds.

We will determine which of the humanitarian projects are critical and need solutions now, said Zelenskyy amid the US freeze on foreign aid.