A breakthrough on Ukraine is possible only if the understandings reached at the negotiations in Anchorage are observed,” Peskov said. The Kremlin spokesperson claimed Russia does not want to publicly discuss details of the alleged agreements,

I was driving in a town in central Ukraine last summer. All the cars pulled over, and we did, too. People got out and knelt. Somebody in the town had scattered flowers on the street, along the centerline.

In the last five years, Russia has doubled its military spending and now has the third-largest defense budget in the world. The Kremlin's spending related to Ukraine reached nearly $137.9 billion.

By Max Hunder KYIV, Feb 9 (Reuters) - Ukraine is opening up exports of its domestically produced weapons, President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said, a way for Kyiv to cash in on a wartime technological arms race against Russia to generate badly needed funds.

In October 2025, Ukraine's General Staff reported that the Russian military command was deploying North Korean units to assist in military operations in Ukraine's Sumy Oblast, particularly as UAV operators.

Russian President Vladimir Putin's foreign minister and close lieutenant, Sergey Lavrov, accused Trump on Monday of continuing "Bidenism" and betraying what was agreed between the two leaders at their summit in Anchorage, Alaska, last August.

Russia sustained 1.2 million casualties almost four years into its all-out war in Ukraine, suffering more losses than any major power in any war since World War II, according to a CSIS report.

Ukranian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych claims the IOC has banned his helmet featuring images of people killed in the war in his home country, in a decision that "breaks my heart".

A Russian airstrike on a residential area in eastern Ukraine killed one person and wounded two, officials said Sunday, after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said the U.S. has given Ukraine and Russia a June deadline to reach a peace deal.