Russia

Russia has said that talks aimed at ending the war in Ukraine have made some progress, but described its contacts with the United States as difficult and complex. “Contacts are…

US President Donald Trump will walk away from trying to broker a Russia-Ukraine peace deal within days unless there are clear signs that a deal can be done, US Secretary…

Iran’s foreign minister will travel to Russia this week for talks on the country’s nuclear programme, just days before a fresh round of indirect negotiations with the United States. On…

Russian strikes killed at least two people in Ukraine and wounded over two dozen, Kyiv said, as Moscow claimed to have captured another village in the northwestern Sumy region. Ukrainian…

The government has announced a further £450m of military support to Kyiv as the UK and Germany prepare to host a meeting of 50 nations in Brussels. Defence officials are…

Six foreign nationals lost their lives on Thursday after a submarine carrying Russian tourists sank off the coast of Egypt’s Red Sea resort town of Hurghada, the local governor’s office…

Russia hopes to make “some progress” in peace talks with Ukraine at a meeting in Saudi Arabia on Monday, a senior Russian negotiator has said. US negotiators will meet separately…

China and Russia stood by Iran on Friday after the United States demanded nuclear talks with Tehran, with senior Chinese and Russian diplomats saying dialogue should only resume based on…

The president of Poland, Andrzej Duda, has repeated his call for the US to base nuclear weapons on Polish soil. In the presidential palace in Warsaw, he told me that…

China will hold a meeting on Friday in Beijing with Russia and Iran on the Iranian “nuclear issue”, its foreign ministry said, with both nations sending their deputy foreign ministers.…