Category: 2. RussianAggression

An Easter truce that wasn’t. The United States threatening to walk away from peace talks. Washington considering recognizing Russian control over Ukraine’s Crimea. Russia and Ukraine ramping up new spring offensives. The Kremlin signaling no let-up in its 38-month-old invasion of its…

Vladimir Putin has offered to halt his invasion of Ukraine across the current front line as part of efforts to reach a peace deal with US President Donald Trump, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Russian president told Steve Witkoff, Trump’s special envoy, during a meeting in St…

Ukrainian rescuers discovered a shaken but spirited canine survivor in the ruins of a Sumy region home following overnight Russian strikes, helping the apparently unharmed pet out from under collapsed concrete on April 22. The city of Odesa was also hit by Russian Shahed drones, causing fires…

Pope Francis died on Easter Monday at the age of 88 after battling a serious bout of double pneumonia.

Despite his illness, his death came as a shock after he had been driven around St. Peter’s Square to greet cheering crowds on Easter Sunday.

“Dear brothers and sisters, it is with profound…

An Easter truce in fighting between Russia and Ukraine appeared to reduce some air strikes on Ukrainian cities, but Kyiv angrily claimed hundreds of violations by Moscow’s forces while calls for an extension went unheeded by the Kremlin.

Nevertheless, US President Donald Trump said late on…

Russian soldiers fighting in Ukraine are being warned about so-called “black widows” — women who seduce and marry them with the aim of collecting their military death benefits. As RFE/RL’s Andrey Cherkasov explains Russian social media, tabloids, and TV talk shows are full of accounts of the…

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Hungary’s Viktor Orbán will lump European taxpayers with an even bigger bill for support to Ukraine if he forces the EU to lift restrictions on €210bn of frozen Russian…

Russia and Ukraine exchanged hundreds of prisoners of war in the latest swap brokered by the United Arab Emirates. Video filmed by RFE/RL’s Ukrainian Service shows emotional reunions between freed prisoners and their loved ones. The April 19 exchange saw 277 Ukrainian POWs return home,…