May 9, 2026 3:19 PM

Putin attends scaled-back WW2 victory parade as worries deepen over Ukraine war

Russia held its most scaled-back Victory Day parade in years on Saturday due to the threat of attack from Ukraine, where victory for Moscow's forces has proven elusive more than four years into the deadliest European conflict since World War Two. The May 9 parade on Red Square marks Russia's most revered national holiday - a time to celebrate the Soviet Union's victory over Nazi Germany and to pay homage to the 27 million Soviet citizens, including many from Ukraine, who perished. Once used to...

May 9, 2026 10:25 AM

Trump hopes for extension to agreed three-day Ukraine-Russia ceasefire

Russia and Ukraine confirmed on Friday that they had agreed to a U.S.-brokered three-day ceasefire that will run from May 9 to May 11, and U.S. President Donald Trump said he hoped it would be extended. Trump's announcement of the temporary ceasefire on Truth Social earlier in the day also said each country, locked in more than four years of conflict, would exchange 1,000 prisoners of war. "I'd like to see a big extension," Trump told reporters on Friday evening. "It could be." Both Kyiv and ...