Milan’s Teatro alla Scala celebrates its gala season premiere with a Russian opera, Dmitry Shostakovich’s “Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk.”

European leaders are edging toward an unprecedented financial strike on Moscow, and the Kremlin is answering with language that sounds uncomfortably close to a threat of wider war. At the heart of the clash is an ambitious European Union plan to tap roughly $86 billion in frozen Russian state assets to bankroll long term

Yehor Cherniev, deputy chairman of Ukraine’s National Security, Defense and Intelligence Committee, told Rudaw on Friday that Russia is pressing hard on the battlefield and is not negotiating in good faith,

Economic and military pressures could force Russia’s hand. Its economy is strained but not enough to do that, analysts say. And President Vladimir V. Putin says Russia is winning the war.

A new headache is emerging for House Speaker Mike Johnson.

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday night that efforts to negotiate an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict will continue next week in Moscow, led by special envoy Steve Witkoff and possibly joined by his son-in-law,

President Trump on Tuesday announced that US special envoy Steve Witkoff will travel to Russia and Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to Ukraine as part of the final push toward a peace deal ending

At least two Ukrainian children abducted by Russian forces were forcefully transferred to North Korea, Kyiv officials said at the US senate hearing. View on euronews

Russia’s economic prosperity over the last three decades has been a smokescreen for moral bankruptcy and global incompetence. Sen. John McCain recognized this truth back in 2014 when he declared that Russia is “a gas station masquerading as a country.”