Brendan Cole is a Newsweek Senior News Reporter based in London, UK. His focus is Russia and Ukraine, in particular the war started by Moscow. He also covers other areas of geopolitics including ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that his armed forces have begun carving out a “security buffer zone” along the ...

US President Donald Trump has suggested that the United States take ownership of Ukraine's power plants, saying it "would be the best protection for that infrastructure." An RFE/RL map shows where ...