#Ukraine crisis

The United States accused Russia on Thursday of planning to short-circuit Ukrainian democracy by forcing the government from power and dismantling local authorities. “We have information that Russia’s planning ...

Greece plans to pay Russian gas supplier Gazprom next month in a way that will not breach European Union sanctions against Russia, the country’s energy minister said on Thursday. ...

British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said on Thursday it would be legitimate for Ukrainian forces to target Russian logistics but they were unlikely to use British weapons. Moscow has accused ...

Ukraine’s southern Kherson region will start using the Russian rouble from May 1, an official from a pro-Russian committee that styles itself as the region’s “military-civil administration” told Russian ...

Russia’s Gazprom cut Poland and Bulgaria off from its gas on Wednesday for refusing to pay in roubles, and threatened to do the same to others, cranking up retaliation ...

Russian government hackers carried out multiple cyber operations against Ukraine that appeared to support Moscow’s military attacks and online propaganda campaigns, Microsoft said in a report on Wednesday. The ...

Belarus moved on Wednesday to make attempted acts of terrorism punishable by the death penalty after activists tried to sabotage parts of the railway network to make it harder for ...

Greece said on Wednesday it would offer help to Bulgaria after Russia cut off its gas supply, while a Greek official said Sofia had already booked some liquefied natural gas (...

The rouble strengthened on Wednesday after Russia said it had halted gas supplies to Bulgaria and Poland, firming to a more than two-year high against the euro in Moscow trade ...

European diesel imports from Russia are set to fall in April but will still exceed those from other regions, highlighting the challenge European governments face as they contemplate new sanctions ...

Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday its Kalibr missiles had struck an arms depot in Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region housing weapons from the United States and European countries. The ...

Countries opposed to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine must double down on their support for Kyiv, including the supply of heavy weapons, tanks and aeroplanes, British Foreign Secretary Liz Truss ...

Series of blasts were heard in the early hours of Wednesday in three Russian provinces bordering Ukraine, authorities said, and an ammunition depot in the Belgorod province caught fire around ...

Russian gas supplies to Poland were halted briefly on Wednesday, data from the European Union gas transmission operators showed, raising fears Russia may turn off the gas taps to Ukraine’...

A Moscow court has ordered the seizure of 500 million roubles ($7 million) worth of Google’s property and funds in Russia, news agencies said, in a lawsuit concerning restrictions the US ...

Ukraine accused Moscow on Tuesday of trying to drag Moldova’s breakaway region of Transdniestria into its war on Kyiv after authorities in the Moscow-backed region said they had been ...

The United States and its allies promised to send more heavy weaponry to Ukraine during talks at a German air base on Tuesday, brushing off a threat from Moscow that ...

Romania has issued a tender to rehabilitate a Soviet-era train line connecting its port of Galati on the Danube river to Ukraine to help boost grain exports, its transport minister ...

One of President Vladimir Putin’s closest allies said on Tuesday that Ukraine was spiralling towards a collapse into several states because of what he cast as a U.S. ...

Russia warned Britain on Tuesday that if it continued to provoke Ukraine to strike targets in Russia then there would be an immediate “proportional response”. Russia’s defence ministry cited ...

Germany announced on Tuesday its first delivery of heavy weapons to Ukraine to help it fend off Russian attacks following weeks of pressure at home and abroad to do so ...

Finland and Sweden might decide together whether or not they will join NATO following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Tuesday. Russia’s offensive, ...

Ukraine’s state-run atomic energy company said Russian missiles flew at low altitude over Europe’s largest nuclear power plant in southern Ukraine on Tuesday, and reiterated warnings that Russia’...

Russia pummelled Ukraine with missiles, aircraft and artillery overnight, killing at least 560 Ukrainian fighters and destroying dozens of armoured vehicles, rocket systems and other military equipment, the defence ministry said. ...