Damascus needs Moscow just as much as Moscow needs Damascus

Russia attacked Ukraine’s capital Kyiv with ballistic missiles early on Tuesday, local authorities reported, following a week-long pause in strikes on major cities and infrastructure agreed to by Russia and the US as Ukraine grapples with plummeting winter temperatures.

A new round of trilateral Ukraine-US-Russia talks is scheduled to take place in Abu Dhabi just one day after Russia’s largest attack against Ukraine this winter, as Moscow launched a record number of missiles,

Dispatches from Ukraine. Day 1,440.

The new reality has forced the Kremlin to raise taxes and increase debt, and hovers over peace talks with Ukraine.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy accused Russia on Tuesday of exploiting a U.S.-backed energy truce to stockpile munitions, and using them to

Donald Trump has claimed to have stopped multiple wars during his second term as U.S. president and has also boasted about progress in peace talks between Russia and Ukraine. Addressing reporters in the Oval Office on Monday,

The Kremlin has warned that the world is heading into a "dangerous" period as New START, the last nuclear arms reduction treaty between the United States and Russia, is set to expire on Thursday. "In just a few days,