An expert warns Iran's IRGC leadership may flee to Russia amid regime instability after high-stakes U.S. negotiations collapsed and military fractures deepen.

A U.S.-brokered ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine was due to expire Monday with both sides accusing each other of breaching the 72-hour arrangement, as American and European officials considered how they might steer the warring countries into further talks.

Putin’s suggestion that Schröder could help mediate talks between Russia and the EU swiftly met opposition from European officials. A mediator “cannot be Putin’s buddy”, Michael Roth, a former SPD lawmaker and chair of the foreign affairs committee, told the Tagesspiegel newspaper.

Since Russian invasion, about 20,500 children have been unlawfully deported or forcibly transferred to Russia or Russian-held territories in Ukraine.

Moscow and Kyiv have accused each other of disregarding U.S. President Donald Trump’s request to stop their attacks. Meanwhile, as the U.S.

With counter-drone technology losing effectiveness, Russia and Ukraine are shifting to deep strikes on each other's drone production sites to destroy them before launch.

The Russian leader is caught between an increasingly unpopular war and shifting global headwinds

Kyiv is forcing Moscow to choose whether to devote air defense resources to defending the Russian homeland or occupied Crimea.

Russia has accused Kyiv of breaking a US-brokered ceasefire, while Ukrainian officials claimed one person had been killed and more injured by Russian drone and artillery strikes in the past 24 hours.

Fresh satellite images have captured one of Russia's most active volcanoes melting snow from the inside out as volcanic heat continues to seep through the frozen landscape of the Kamchatka Peninsula.