A spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin announced that its “premature to talk” with the U.S. about the developing crisis in Ukraine amidst warnings about future human rights abuses if Moscow invades Kyiv
Multiple reports suggest thousands of Russian citizens who disagree with Vladimir Putin’s invasion are scrambling to leave their homeland as sanctions close off travel options. One prominent Russian-Israeli oligarch who fled to Israel in 2003 after being targeted by Putin announced Tuesday he will renounce his Russian citizenship. “Everything that Putin touches dies,” he said.
Putin also accused the West of “forcing the thesis that Russia will use nuclear weapons"
Videos of Russians fighting over sugar in supermarkets have emerged amongst fears of a food shortage caused by Western sanctions over Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, according to reports.
World leaders were in Rome to attend Pope Leo XIV's inaugural mass.
Although Pope Francis said on Wednesday that the prospect of war in Ukraine caused “great pain in my heart," the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics stopped short of condemning Vladimir Putin’s bloody, illegal invasion
Oil prices hit $100 a barrel for the first time since 2011, following Russian President Vladimir Putin’s widely-condemned decision to invade his country’s southern neighbor, Ukraine
A court in Belarus sentenced a 20-year-old student from the eastern city of Mahiliou to 6.5 years in prison for expressing criticism Ukraine war and Alyaksandr Lukashenka, the country’s authoritarian ruler and close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin
In the years before Moscow invaded Ukraine, Democrats enriched themselves politically and personally from oligarchs and businesses in the region while empowering Vladimir Putin with energy and technology deals
The foreign ministers of Russia and Ukraine met in Turkey on Thursday in the first high-level meeting since the Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine two weeks ago on February 24