The Ukrainian capital, Kyiv, has been plunged into a widespread blackout, with electricity, water, and heating supplies cut across large parts of the city of some 3 million people following another night of Russian drone strikes.
Russia fired a new nuclear-capable ballistic missile with multiple warheads at western Ukraine as part of a barrage of missiles and drones that pounded Ukrainian cities, including Kyiv where at least 4 were killed and dozens wounded.
Russia has freed imprisoned French researcher Laurent Vinatier in exchange for a Russian basketball player held in France and wanted in the United States for alleged ties to a computer hacking group.
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said a plan on security guarantees for Ukraine is "essentially ready" after an overnight barrage of Russian strikes crippled electricity, heating, and water infrastructure in parts of Ukraine, leaving around 1 million people in the dark amid freezing temperatures.
On February 5, a treaty capping the numbers of deployed Russian and US nuclear warheads will expire, marking the first time in more than half a century that the two countries' nuclear programs will be unconstrained by numerical limits.
The US seizure of a Russian-flagged oil tanker in the North Atlantic dramatically raises the stakes in Washington’s naval blockade of Venezuela, blowing apart an apparent Kremlin strategy to reflag its shadow fleet ships to offer them protection -- as well as stoking wider tensions with Moscow.
US naval forces boarded and seized a runaway Russian shadow fleet tanker in the North Atlantic, the latest in a series of moves by Washington against vessels linked to illegal trade in Venezuelan oil.
Things are such a mess for Russian Railways -- a company that is a major engine, literally and figuratively, for the entire Russian economy -- that the government is scrambling to keep its problems from rippling further.
Officials from more than 30 Western countries -- the so-called Coalition of the Willing -- have agreed ensure "politically and legally binding guarantees" for Ukraine once a peace agreement to end the war with Russia is reached.
US military strikes in Venezuela and President Donald Trump’s remarks on boosting oil production under American control have set off global ripples, raising questions over the future of the world’s largest proven reserves and the geopolitical balance among key partners — Russia, Iran, and China.
Officials from the more than 30 Western countries of the so-called Coalition of the Willing that support Kyiv in its battle with Russia will meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on January 6 to fine tune a peace proposal aimed at ending Europe's deadliest conflict since World War II.
While the loss of a Latin American ally is a blow, Russia may hope the US intervention in Venezuela means Moscow can do as it wishes in what it considers its sphere of influence, primarily Ukraine. In practice, though, there’s no guarantee it will lead to big changes in the war or the wider region.
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