North Korea Is Making Billions From Russia's War on Ukraine

North Korea's involvement in Russia's war on Ukraine has generated more than $20 billion for its economy so far, according to a recent estimate, and is helping Pyongyang to acquire even more high-tech ... Read More

Crimea Becomes New Flashpoint In Russia-Ukraine War: Why It Is Contested

Trump chided the Ukrainian leader for refusing to recognise Russia's occupation of Crimea as part of a U.S. peace deal to end the war in Ukraine. Read More

Ukraine’s fighters fear Russian attacks and Trump’s ceasefire

The leaked American ceasefire proposal would end sanctions on Russia, freeze the front line and see America formally recognise Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The intelligence officer, based in Kyiv, ... Read More

Ukraine-Russia war latest: Trump insists he is ‘putting pressure’ on Putin after ‘Vladimir STOP!’ exclamation

Trump insists he is ‘putting pressure’ on Putin after ‘Vladimir STOP!’ exclamation - US president says strikes that killed at least 12 people were ‘very bad timing’ ... Read More

Russia's domestic economy is increasingly reliant on war in Ukraine

Russia’s industrial heartland is seeing an economic renaissance as a result of the war in Ukraine ... the face of Western sanctions has made the country’s economy so dependent on military ... Read More

Putin says Russia should use trade war opportunities to strengthen economy

Russian President Vladimir Putin urged his economic officials on Thursday to take advantage of opportunities arising in the global economy from market turbulence and intensifying trade wars. Read More

Putin’s War Economy Can’t Escape Trump’s Trade Blitz

Russia dodged “Liberation Day” tariffs, but Moscow is still perilously exposed for one reason: oil. Read More

Ukraine's Zelenskyy says the security of the world is at stake amid Russia war: "The threat is real"

Three years after Russia's full-scale invasion, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy discusses the state of the war and his country's relationship with the U.S. Read More

Ukraine's once-booming grain industry teetering on being a war casualty

Ukraine’s grain crops are far from the world’s largest. In fact, the U.S. state of Iowa grows more than twice the amount of corn that Ukraine does in an average year. Read More

Russian attacks on Kyiv complicate U.S. efforts to end war in Ukraine

Russia pounded Kyiv overnight in one of its largest attacks on the Ukrainian capital since last summer. Officials there say nine people were killed and more than 70 others injured. It comes at a ... Read More

Crimea: What to know about peninsula at centre of Trump-Zelensky standoff

Crimea, a peninsula jutting into the Black Sea, has become the focal point of escalating tensions between Russia and the West, sparking a fresh dispute between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian ... Read More

For Russia, the U.S. peace deal could be a way of weakening Ukraine

Many of the elements of the U.S. proposal would be politically damaging to Zelensky, creating an opening Moscow could exploit, say analysts and officials. Read More