Russia now controls more than two-thirds of Ukraine’s Donetsk region — the main theater of the ground war. Russian forces ...

Zelensky previously warned that Russian troop training in Belarus could mark "the beginning of a full-scale invasion, similar to the one we saw in 2022," posing risks to Ukraine and neighboring ...

Russia is weaponizing migration to destabilize Europe, using violence and human trafficking networks in Libya to sow division ...

In an interview with RBC-Ukraine, activist Anton Motalko said that as of the beginning of 2025, there were up to 2,500 Russian military personnel in Belarus, including instructors from the Wagner PMC.

I'm RFE/RL Europe Editor Rikard Jozwiak, and this week I am drilling down on two issues: the EU’s attempt to ramp up its defense and the bloc finally hitting Russian fertilizers ...

In 2020, during Trump's first term, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Belarus in what was then the highest-level U.S. visit to the eastern European country in over 20 years.

Eismont said Kellogg's talks with Lukashenko had begun on Friday evening and lasted 6-1/2 hours over dinner, covering the Ukraine conflict, the Middle East, relations between Russia, Belarus and ...

Ukraine placed a mammoth 2.1-billion-euro ($2.3-billion) metal dome over the remnants of the Chernobyl plant last year in a bid to stop future leaks and ensure the safety of Europeans for generations.

John joined Newsweek in 2020 after reporting in Central Europe and the ... It comes days after a Kyiv official warned Moscow wants to seize half of Ukraine by the end of next year, as a map by ...

Since then, there have been other warnings from Ukraine's foreign ministry about the threat Belarus poses, such as in August 2024 that any border violation would prompt a self-defense response ...