Russia Ukraine conflict

February 24, 2026 4:01 PM

Kremlin says Ukraine conflict has evolved into a much wider confrontation with the West

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Western countries' decision to intervene in the conflict in Ukraine meant it had become a much wider confrontation with nations that Russia believed want to crush it. Speaking exactly four years after tens of thousands of Russian troops entered Ukraine on President Vladimir Putin's orders, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said the fighting continued, but that Moscow remained open to achieving its aims through political and diplomatic means. "Following the direct...

November 27, 2025 6:52 PM

Russia says Ukrainian NATO membership would be unacceptable for Moscow

Russia said on Thursday that Ukrainian membership of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance would be unacceptable to Moscow. “For us, the threat is still the expansion of NATO,” Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters in Moscow. “NATO’s desire to pull Ukraine into its orbit remains a threat to us.” “This country’s membership of an aggressive military alliance that has declared Russia to be its target, calling it a security threat in all operational enviro...

October 6, 2025 4:51 PM

Ukraine says it struck major Russian explosives factory, oil terminal

Ukraine's military said on Monday it had struck one of Russia's main factories producing explosives for a wide variety of ammunition for Russia's army as well as an oil terminal in occupied Crimea fueling Moscow's war effort. Ukraine's forces have stepped up long-range attacks on strategic Russian targets, particularly oil facilities, as diplomatic efforts to end the more than 3-1/2-year-old war have stalled. In a statement, Ukraine's General Staff said "numerous explosions" were reported ...

September 24, 2025 8:11 PM

Kremlin says Trump’s Ukraine shift mistaken and swayed by Zelenskiy

The Kremlin on Wednesday flatly rejected what Donald Trump said was the rationale behind his rhetorical U-turn on the war in Ukraine, saying it appeared that the U.S. president had been influenced by Ukraine's leader and was mistaken. In an abrupt shift in Ukraine's favour, Trump said on Tuesday after meeting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy that he believed that Kyiv could recapture all of its land taken by Russia - which controls around one-fifth of the country - and that it should act...

September 24, 2025 6:25 PM

Kremlin says process of restoring ties with US is proceeding ‘much more slowly than desired’

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Wednesday that the process of restoring relations between Russia and the US was proceeding "much more slowly than desired." Peskov told reporters that the Kremlin would like to speed up work on removing what he called irritants in bilateral relations and said there were many areas where Russia and the US could cooperate in the interests of both countries. More to follow... (Reuters)...

September 7, 2025 12:22 PM

Russia’s largest air attack on Ukraine sets fire to main government building

Russia's largest overnight air attack of the war set the main building of the Ukrainian government in Kyiv on fire and left three people dead, including an infant, whose body was pulled from the rubble, Ukrainian officials said on Sunday. "For the first time, the Government building was damaged by an enemy strike — its roof and upper floors," Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko said on the Telegram messaging app. "Rescuers are extinguishing the fire." Reuters' witnesses saw the top fl...

September 5, 2025 10:59 AM

26 nations vow to give Ukraine postwar security guarantees, Macron says

Twenty-six nations have pledged to provide postwar security guarantees to Ukraine, which will include an international force on land, sea and in the air, French President Emmanuel Macron said after a summit meeting of Kyiv's allies on Thursday. Macron said he, fellow European leaders and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy held a call with U.S. President Donald Trump after their summit and U.S. contributions to the guarantees would be finalised in the coming days. Later, asked if he planne...

August 21, 2025 12:06 PM

Talk of boots on the ground in Ukraine sparks unease in Germany

Allied talk of sending European peacekeeping forces to protect Ukraine as part of a possible peace deal with Russia has sparked a backlash in Germany, a country still scarred by its militaristic Nazi past, even if the prospect remains remote. Chancellor Friedrich Merz has signalled openness to German participation in a possible peacekeeping mission in Ukraine while emphasising that such a decision would require coordination with European partners and his own coalition. He also noted that any t...

August 19, 2025 9:43 AM

Rutte says Article 5 type deal considered for Ukraine, NATO membership not discussed

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Monday NATO membership for Ukraine was not under discussion but that there was a discussion on "Article 5" type security guarantees for the country that Russia invaded in February 2022. "The situation is this - that the U.S. and some other countries have said that they are against NATO membership for Ukraine. The official NATO position ... is that there is an irreversible path for Ukraine into NATO," Rutte said during an interview on Fox News' "The Ingr...

August 18, 2025 10:24 AM

Russia strikes on Kharkiv kill three, injure 17, Ukraine says

A Russian air attack overnight on a residential area in Kharkiv killed three people, including a toddler, and injured 17, Ukrainian authorities said on Monday, as the United States presses Kyiv to take a quick deal to end a war Moscow started. A drone attack killed the two-year-old boy in Ukraine's second-largest city early on Monday, after a ballistic missile strike the previous night, Oleh Synehubov, the governor of the wider Kharkiv region, said on messaging app Telegram. The number of the ...