Regional forces in Tigray, northern Ethiopia, have taken control of the local airport, causing Ethiopian Airlines to cancel flights to the region.

NATO's deputy commander in Europe is warning that Russian President Vladimir Putin is becoming increasingly reckless as the war in Ukraine drags on and as he seeks to divide Western allies.

Russian drones have hit Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia, officials said.

Election officials say the Kremlin's main party has retained its majority in Russia’s parliament.

Early results from Russia’s first wartime parliamentary election, released by the country’s election commission, show the main Kremlin party dominating the vote.

Russian officials say Ukrainian forces launched over 1,000 drones at Russia, including hundreds targeting Moscow.

Russia’s parliamentary election for the first time is being held in Ukraine’s regions that Moscow illegally annexed after the start of its full-scale invasion more than 4 1/2 years ago.

President Donald Trump has signed a major sanctions package targeting Russian officials and key sectors of its economy.

Russians have begun three days of voting in the country’s first wartime parliamentary election.

A senior British defense official says more than half a million Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine since Moscow's full-scale invasion in February 2022.

A Kremlin official says Russian President Vladimir Putin told U.S. President Donald Trump by phone that Moscow doesn’t harbor aggressive intentions toward Europe.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has announced the closure of the German consulate in St. Petersburg.

U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner say they have held encouraging talks in Kyiv.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has met with U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner at the Kremlin.

A Russian drone has struck Ukraine’s security service headquarters in Kyiv, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says.

Russia says it will close German cultural centers on its territory in a retaliatory measure amid deepening tensions between Moscow and European countries who are helping Ukraine resist the Kremlin’s invasion.

Russians have experienced a summer of turmoil because of the war in Ukraine.

Officials say Russian aerial attacks have killed two civilians and wounded six in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro.

The Kremlin says CIA Director John Ratcliffe held talks in Moscow with his intelligence counterparts, a rare and secretive visit at a time when relations with Washington remain strained over Russia’s war in Ukraine.

Ukrainian long-range drones have struck a major warehouse belonging to Russia’s biggest online retailer, Wildberries, for the second time in six weeks.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has decreed that the state can temporarily seize control of critical infrastructure facilities if private owners fail to protect them from Ukrainian drone attacks or rebuild them after the strikes.

European leaders joined President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Kyiv for the 35th anniversary of Ukraine’s Independence Day.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has hosted the head of Myanmar’s military-backed government, who visited Moscow on a trip intended to further boost cooperation between the countries.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Japanese ambassador to protest Tokyo’s criticism of President Vladimir Putin’s trip to the Kuril Islands, the Moscow-controlled Pacific archipelago that is claimed by both countries.

Ukraine’s state energy company says Russia has attacked its facilities 13 times over the past week, with nearly 300 attacks this year.

Russian jet-powered drones have struck a home in northern Ukraine, killing a 29-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son.

Officials in Ukraine say Russian aerial attacks killed at least 10 civilians.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukraine has hit more oil facilities deep inside Russia.

The Russian Embassy in Rome has blamed Ukraine for a deadly weekend bombing at a Moscow restaurant, describing it as an attempt to intimidate the Italian community in Russia.

Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least five people across Russia, also hitting industrial sites and a further warehouse belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online marketplace, local officials said.

Moscow's mayor has called a bomb attack on a restaurant a "brutal terrorist act" but hasn't specified who is responsible.

Russian ballistic missiles struck Kyiv early Sunday, igniting fires and wounding at least three civilians.

Ukraine is still fortifying its border with Belarus more than four years after Russia used the country to launch its assault on Kyiv.

Ukraine has launched over 400 drones toward Moscow, according to the city's mayor.

Russia has attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with missiles, drones and bombs, killing at least six people.

Russian officials report that Ukrainian drone attacks overnight and later on Saturday have killed nine people and wounded more than 80 others.

New Russian attacks on Ukraine have killed six people, including a child, and wounded 29.

Ukrainian drones hit more Russian oil facilities and set two oil tankers ablaze in the Sea of Azov, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump pledged to grant Ukraine a license to manufacture the Patriot air defense systems.

The Kremlin has welcomed as an “important step” the International Olympic Committee’s decision to remove many of its restrictions on Russia, a big step closer to letting it field a full team when Los Angeles hosts the 2028 Games.

Officials say Russian drone and missile attacks across Ukraine have killed four people, including two in Kyiv, as Moscow kept up its pressure on the capital in the latest phase of the war, now in its fifth year.

A Ukrainian attack on Russian-occupied Crimea has killed one person, according to Moscow-installed officials.

Russia likely used shadow ships to launch drones over Europe that repeatedly disrupted civilian aviation, as it monitored military sites and tested the air defenses of NATO nations.

Lines are growing at Russian gas stations -- and so is the frustration and uncertainty as several months of Ukrainian attacks have set oil refineries ablaze and choked supplies for motorists across the vast country.

Ukraine has intensified its drone attacks on Russia, setting fire to a major oil refinery in the south and killing at least two people, according to Russian authorities.

The Defense Ministry in Moscow says Ukraine launched a major nighttime drone attack on Russian regions, Crimea, and surrounding seas.

Ukraine says its forces struck a railway bridge, a power plant and other key infrastructure targets in Crimea as Kyiv’s military authorities seek to isolate the vital Russian-held peninsula in the latest stage of the 4-year-old war.

The European Union has reached out to Moscow in a tentative bid to open a line of communication so the continent is not sidelined in any potential talks to end Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine, officials said.

A Russian warship has fired warning shots near a U.K.-registered pleasure yacht in the English Channel.

A shadowy figure known as El Money orchestrated arson attacks in London linked to British Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

In a new blow to the Kremlin’s narrative that Moscow is winning the 4-year-old war in Ukraine, Kyiv’s forces have targeted fuel supplies to the Crimean Peninsula.

Armenia's parliamentary elections Sunday will focus on its geopolitical future as Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan seeks closer ties with the EU and the U.S. That is despite Armenia's longstanding relations with Russia that are favored by most of the country's opposition parties.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting, saying he sees “no point” in it.

Russian forces launched a massive aerial attack on Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities, and officials say at least 22 civilians were killed and 138 were wounded.

Russian intelligence agencies have grown more aggressive in their efforts to steal Western technology and defense secrets as sanctions squeeze the country’s wartime economy.

Russian officials say overnight Ukrainian drone strikes killed at least four people including three near Moscow.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has welcomed the test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile as a key part of efforts to modernize the country’s nuclear forces.

Russia and Ukraine accused each other of breaking a U.S.-brokered ceasefire on Sunday, with both sides saying that people had been killed or wounded by drone and artillery strikes carried out in the past 24 hours.

A three-day ceasefire between Russia and Ukraine, announced by U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday, has eased tensions over a potential Ukrainian attack on a Red Square parade in Moscow.

Russia's Defense Ministry reports that air defenses shot down 347 Ukrainian drones overnight.

Three Western intelligence officials from different countries have told The Associated Press that a campaign of targeted killings they blame on Russia has ramped up since Moscow’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian authorities say Russian drone and missile strikes during the night and into daylight hours have killed at least 22 people and wounded more than 80 others.

Russia's Defense Ministry has declared a unilateral ceasefire in Ukraine to mark Victory Day, commemorating the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.

Ukraine has launched a wave of strikes against Russia’s oil export infrastructure, hitting a key loading port on the Baltic Sea and three tankers that Ukraine alleges were illegally used to transport Russian crude.

Two people have been killed after a Russian drone attacked a minibus in Kherson, Ukraine, according to local officials.

Ukrainian drones are flying deep into Russia to strike oil facilities.

The U.K. has expelled a Russian diplomat in retaliation for Moscow’s recent expulsion of a British official and the smear campaign that followed.

The Russian Defense Ministry says the traditional Victory Day parade will take place without military equipment.

Ukraine’s defense minister says the country's armed forces shot down more than 33,000 Russian drones of various types in March, a record monthly figure since Moscow launched its all-out invasion more than four years ago.

Authorities in Ukraine say a Russian drone attack on Ukraine’s southern city of Odesa has wounded 14 people including two children.

Strikes across Ukraine, Russian-occupied territory and Russia have killed at least 16 people.

The head of the U.K.'s National Cyber Security Centre warns that hostile nations like Russia, Iran and China are behind the most serious cyberattacks in the U.K. In a speech Wednesday, Richard Horne said British businesses need to prepare for large-scale cyberattacks, especially if the U.K. becomes involved in international conflicts.

The U.S. Treasury Department has extended its pause on sanctions on Russian oil shipments to ease shortages from the Iran war, days after Secretary Scott Bessent ruled out such a move.

Russia has launched a massive aerial attack on Ukraine, targeting civilian areas with hundreds of drones and dozens of missiles.

Russia and Ukraine have accused each other of violating a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire as Orthodox Christians gathered to celebrate the holiday.

Russia continued to strike Ukrainian positions with drones despite a Kremlin-declared Easter ceasefire.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Ukrainian military personnel shot down Iranian-designed Shahed drones in multiple Middle Eastern countries during the Iran war, describing the operations as part of a broader effort to help partners counter the same weapons used by Russia in Ukraine.

Anger and frustration is growing in Russia over government restrictions on the internet that have disrupted daily life, hurt businesses and brought condemnation from both Kremlin critics and supporters alike.

Russia plans to send a second oil tanker to Cuba, according to Energy Minister Sergei Tsivilyov.

Central African Republic President Faustin-Archange Touadéra has been sworn in for a third term three months after a disputed election.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has arrived in Saudi Arabia on an unannounced visit.

Authorities in nearly a dozen regions across Russian have refused to authorize protests in recent weeks over internet censorship and the blocking of Telegram, a popular messaging app.

With U.S.-brokered Ukraine peace talks on hold due to the war in the Middle East, Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to try to expand his military gains via new offensives against his southern neighbor that will put even more pressure on Kyiv.

Two weeks into the war with Iran, President Donald Trump has increasingly been knocked back on his political heels.

A Russian missile and drone strike has hit the Kyiv region in Ukraine and killed at least four people.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says the U.S. 30-day waiver on Russian oil sanctions amid the Iran war is “not the right decision” and won’t help bring a stop to Russia’s more than 4-year-old invasion of Ukraine.

A Moscow court has convicted 19 people of involvement in the 2024 shootings that killed 149 and injured more than 600 at a concert hall in Moscow.

As U.S. and Israeli missiles and bombs rain on Iran, Russia has responded with words of indignation — but no action to support its ally.

Belarus’ authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko has pardoned 18 more prisoners as part of his recent effort at a rapprochement with the United States.

Russia has condemned U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran and urged an immediate stop to the campaign and a return to diplomacy.

Russian officials say an unidentified assailant has detonated an explosive device next to a patrol vehicle in Moscow, killing himself and a police officer and leaving two other officers injured.

Hungary is threatening to block new EU sanctions on Russia and slow EU help for Ukraine until Russian oil deliveries resume.

The Cuban foreign minister is visiting Moscow as the island faces blackouts and severe fuel shortages worsened by a U.

A Ukrainian drone attack hit a Russian Black Sea port as diplomats prepare for fresh U.S.-brokered peace talks.

Russia has attacked Ukrainian cities again overnight as Ukraine accuses Russia of dragging its feet on new U.S.-brokered peace talks.

Russia's top diplomat says that Moscow will observe the limits of the last nuclear arms pact with the United States that expired last week as long as it sees that Washington does the same.

The U.S. and Russia have agreed to reestablish high-level, military-to-military dialogue for the first time in more than four years.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says Russia breached its commitment to hold off on energy infrastructure attacks for a week when it launched a major assault on Ukraine overnight.

A new round of U.S.-brokered talks on ending Russia’s war on Ukraine is set to go ahead this week.

Syria’s interim President Ahmad al-Sharaa has arrived in Moscow for his second time in less than four months for talks, and Russian President Vladimir Putin emphasized his readiness to help the country rebuild its war-battered economy.

Officials in Ukraine say that a heavy Russian drone attack on Odesa has killed at least three people and wounded 23, including children and a pregnant woman.